What’s the use of a penny

Still get them in change but I can’t remember the last time
I spent one.
Penny for your thoughts anyone

'Copper' is the operative word, and it is a pain, I mean how do you spend it now, without giving the shopkeeper a bad day, but the decimal currency system needs to operate to the penny, so I guess we are stuck with the stuff

There must be millions of pennies in circulation and there was talk of doing away with them

I’ve got loads and loads and loads.

You can always weigh them in at Asda in that coin machine...but at present they charge 11% .. it's a good way of dumping them....I do it every couple of years....a lot of charities rely on shrapnel although it can be a pain in your pocket.

I always used to take them to Asda when hubby was still alive..trouble is copper is very heavy.

One of my shops was near a high school and 2 primary schools and the kids just threw 1p and 2p coins away outside the shop. They didn't know the value of money! There are a lot of adults like that too, I've got a mate who won't accept loose change. If we go in a bar or restaurant and he's paying, he won't take any change back. When it's my turn to pay, I'm counting it out on the counter!

They make a nice penny floor

£24.01 a square metre!

Out under 50p goes in the granddaughters piggy bank then a trip to the bank every 3 month or so

I remember being in Italy when their currency was the Lira, there was something like 2,400 Lira to a pound. Some of the shops would give you a handful of toffee instead of change if it was only a couple of hundred Lira.

I save it up and when I go to the town centre, give to , who I consider is a deserving case , There will be enough for a hot meal and a drink and, I thank my lucky stars, Its not me sitting there in a sleeping bag,

Tomplum unfortunately we cannot sort out the homeless from the professional beggar's Therefore I keep my money well away from all of them. Burnham allegedly gives 15% of his earning to the homeless of Manchester how much of this filters through to the genuine homeless. Some of these people who you see in sleeping bags have a flat somewhere and make money for booze/drugs . I have seen these homeless people begging in Wigan then get into a car with beer bottles in hand probably going to another town centre to beg there.

I was walking down fishergate in Preston a couple of months ago with my partner.There was a beggar sat outside of the sainsburys local store.A woman came out with a packet of sandwiches and gave them to him he said thank you as we walked past him,I said to Eileen i bet you a tenner when we come back the sandwiches are still there and he'll have gone.I was right he only wanted cash.

I read something a couple of years ago, one beggar was followed after doing his stint,he had a large bag and went into some toilets,and came out smartly dressed,and drove a way in a nice car,begging clothes would have been in the bag.

Have a walk around any town, or city in the early hours, especially at this time of the year when the temperature is terrible.

You'll see who is homeless, and, who is not.
Believe me, there are a lot who are genuinely homeless