I have a coin rolling toy. Its mechanical parts long since corroded and ignored. No this large, cylindrical, gray, piece of plastic takes up precious space on my corner desk. I love the toy.
One by one, I faithfully place the coins into a small opening at the top. Each coin I drop rolls along its short track to drop with a unique sound into its tight little sleeve. There is a little bit of excitement when a sleeve fills up and the coins tumble over the edge.
Quarters and pennies fill up fast. Dimes are not too difficult to acquire either. But nickels seem to be the forgotten coin. My bag of coin wrappers holds no papers to hold quarters, no papers to hold pennies, there are two for dimes and twelve, yes one dozen, for nickels. There are just no need for nickels in my world.
Think about it. When we make change, just how necessary is a nickel. I need it to make $.05, for $.15 and for $.30. After that, I don't need it. In the cash drawer at work, I get change for nickels the least.
While the penny was once touted as the unnecessary coin, I now submit the nickel for this distinction. Sorry Mr. Jefferson, it's not personal and you still grace the two dollar bill. Now if I could only find something to so with all the extra coin sleeves.
Comments (12)
never thought of it that way.
Ha! Love this! I have always hated nickels and second your proposal to abolish them. I have often complained and ranted about their uselessness, not to mention they are big and clumsy...and only worth five cents!
I think we should get rid of all coins and paper money and just use cards. It seems so much more efficient.
@scrambledmegsntoast - actually I have a rant against the use of only plastic.
Poor nickels. But it is true. As a cashier, I never had to open a roll of nickels.
Pennys? Nickles? I liked the old buffalo nickles!
Dear Amy,
I have more nickels than any other coin. Interesting. Quarters disappear the fastest.
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Michael F. Nyiri, poet,philosopher, fool
interesting.
Very interesting post.
Penny! Nickel! In Malaysia we called them cents (sen - in malay language).
i get rid of my nickels in vending machines. buffalo nickels are the coolest, though.
Yeah! Tude inspires poems like that! shglaf!
How about we get rid of pennies, which cost more to make than their face value, and round everything to 5-cent increments? We do the same thing there in Thailand - even though the baht is made up of 100 satang, everything is rounded to 25-satang incremenbts.