Found one penny near a construction site on W 19th Street and another near the "Tumbling Mirage" sculpture in Union Square.
Total haul for the day = .02
TOTAL to date = $14.29
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Drug Money
A bunch of junkies hang out on the eastern side of Union Square Park. One would assume that they would pick up spare change but they would have to see it first. I found a penny by an uninhabited bench in that area - before my dog peed on it.
FYI, I keep my coins separate at home. Pennies and nickels share a red ceramic piggy bank (lower bank in image), quarters get the big midcentury pig, and dimes get their own modern orange plastic pig that is nearly spherical. Here's a sketch of the three. They live on a shelf near the front door.
Lightning, or rather, quarters, strike twice in the same spot! Mere feet from where I found a quarter near a crowded bench in Union Square over the summer, I found *another* quarter. This time the benches were empty because it was raining and the quarter was mixed in with the fall leaves.
Total haul for the day = .26
TOTAL to date = $14.27
FYI, I keep my coins separate at home. Pennies and nickels share a red ceramic piggy bank (lower bank in image), quarters get the big midcentury pig, and dimes get their own modern orange plastic pig that is nearly spherical. Here's a sketch of the three. They live on a shelf near the front door.
Lightning, or rather, quarters, strike twice in the same spot! Mere feet from where I found a quarter near a crowded bench in Union Square over the summer, I found *another* quarter. This time the benches were empty because it was raining and the quarter was mixed in with the fall leaves.
Total haul for the day = .26
TOTAL to date = $14.27
12 November 2008
Every penny counts!
I found one near a garbage can in Central Park. The penny/garbage can proximity thing is starting to making me wonder.
Total haul for the day = .01
TOTAL to date = $14.01
I found one near a garbage can in Central Park. The penny/garbage can proximity thing is starting to making me wonder.
Total haul for the day = .01
TOTAL to date = $14.01
11 November 2008
11-11-11
One dime and one penny equal eleven cents found on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It also means we hit $14.00 even since starting this folly on June 20th.
Total haul today = .11
TOTAL to date = $14.0
One dime and one penny equal eleven cents found on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It also means we hit $14.00 even since starting this folly on June 20th.
Total haul today = .11
TOTAL to date = $14.0
10 November 2008
10 on the tenth - and then some. I was happy to find to pennies in the crosswalk at 4th Ave and 13th Street (what's up with this - people drop change in the crosswalk but don't risk picking it up?) but then hit the big money at twilight in the dog run where I found a dime winking at me from among the dusty gravel (I rinsed that one before depositing into the piggy bank).
Total haul for the day = .12
TOTAL to date = $13.79
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Half a Dozen
Outside of the Strand I found a penny at 12:20 a.m. and moments later a Nickel! Nickels are big so rarely left behind. In fact, since June I have only found 7 nickels whereas I have lucked upon 27 dimes. Fine with me, I prefer the larger denominations.
Aw, and then the sun came up and more coins rained down. I left my apartment to go a movie and followed a trail of 8 cents all the way to the cinema.
Total haul for the day = .14
TOTAL to date $13.67
Aw, and then the sun came up and more coins rained down. I left my apartment to go a movie and followed a trail of 8 cents all the way to the cinema.
Total haul for the day = .14
TOTAL to date $13.67
Thursday, November 6, 2008
LATE ENTRY 4 November 2008
I was very much caught up in the events of November 4, so much so that blogging about pennies was far from my mind. On my way home from voting, however, I did find four pennies next to a garbage can at 4th Avenue and 13th Street. Why do I find so many pennies near garbage cans? Do people want to get rid of them but know better than to chuck them in?
Okay, who thinks people under 50 have a chance of seeing Obama on US tender before they kick it for good? I do.
Okay, who thinks people under 50 have a chance of seeing Obama on US tender before they kick it for good? I do.
Big money today as I stepped onto the elevator in my building. A dime right on the doorplate! Too bad I spent about 2 hours kneeling at work yesterday and as a result ended up with useless legs today. I needed the bar in the elevator to pull myself up (I always wondered what that thing was for).
And then I found a penny on 5th Avenue at 21st Street. A sad penny hanging out by a garbage can (which was useful for pulling myself up after bending down with rubber legs).
Total haul for the day = .11
TOTAL to date = $13.48
And then I found a penny on 5th Avenue at 21st Street. A sad penny hanging out by a garbage can (which was useful for pulling myself up after bending down with rubber legs).
Total haul for the day = .11
TOTAL to date = $13.48
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Fourtet
I found four pennies near a garbage can in front of Circuit City at Union Square. Why do I find so many near garbage cans?
Total haul for the day = .04
TOTAL to date = $13.36
Total haul for the day = .04
TOTAL to date = $13.36
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Round and reddish, but not a pumpkin
I found another penny yesterday. Big whoop.
Today I found a bag in the restroom at the Prospect Park Zoo. It was left on the hook of a door in a stall. It was a tote bag and I could see there was a wallet in it so I took it right to a zookeeper for the lost and found. It may have had HUNDREDS of dollars in it but my kid was with me so I couldn't very well rifle through it and pocket the twenties, could I? That would have qualified as found money but since there was a good chance of reuniting the owner with the lost money, that's exactly what I tried to do. I only keep found money that I'm sure I can't return to the previous owner.
Total to date = $13.32 (not the unknown fortune in a forgotten bag found in a zoo toilet in Brooklyn)
Today I found a bag in the restroom at the Prospect Park Zoo. It was left on the hook of a door in a stall. It was a tote bag and I could see there was a wallet in it so I took it right to a zookeeper for the lost and found. It may have had HUNDREDS of dollars in it but my kid was with me so I couldn't very well rifle through it and pocket the twenties, could I? That would have qualified as found money but since there was a good chance of reuniting the owner with the lost money, that's exactly what I tried to do. I only keep found money that I'm sure I can't return to the previous owner.
Total to date = $13.32 (not the unknown fortune in a forgotten bag found in a zoo toilet in Brooklyn)
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