Guy Collects Pennies for 38 years!

[Joshuaccupuncture]

This is amazing! Im going to start saving up my pennies!

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301327.html

[richndanapoint]

xxaxegrinderxx said:

This is amazing! Im going to start saving up my pennies!

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301327.html

I sure wouldn't want to be the one to wrap em

[MarvinRules]

richndanapoint said:

I sure wouldn't want to be the one to wrap em

That is probably why he only got $13,000+ out of the $1.4 Million he had... Bank Fees... LOL

[registrar]

LOL I love how the title says he got 14.1 million dollars, but the article says he had 14.1 million pennies and got $13,000.

[Joshuaccupuncture]

Yea thats funny. But it shows how much money you could make by just saving the little stuff.

Its not that hard to collect pennies.

[MarvinRules]

He saved over $36,000 in pennies a year. That is more than some people make in a year. If he had deposited them in a normal bank account instead of in drums he would have the whole 1.4 million (Plus Interest) and he would be set for retirement!

[Ember]

lol and I thought that when I got $200 from my pennies that was awesome.

[¿J-pop?]

Pennies can be found all about, but people pay no attention to them

[Snakeair]

In 20 years I'm gonna check under my couch cushions for loose change. lol

[RetsamDiortem]

Instead of pennies, I'll save up in 100 dollar bills.

[Snakeair]

metroidmaster said:

Instead of pennies, I'll save up in 100 dollar bills.

I get those from my paycheck but i hand them over to my credit card bill. lol

[Blade]

wow..13,000 bucks

[3D]

Man thats alot of money. Kind of what I did with me and collecting alluminum cans. (5 cents a can)

[daniel]

marvinrules said:

He saved over $36,000 in pennies a year. That is more than some people make in a year. If he had deposited them in a normal bank account instead of in drums he would have the whole 1.4 million (Plus Interest) and he would be set for retirement!

Nah, the article had a dumb $ in the title. He saved 1,380,459 pennies, which works out to $13,804.59. That's a nice amount, but paltry if you work that out over the course of 38 years. I'll keep investing 6% into my 401k and cash that out in about 40 years, rather than hoarde pennies. They are barely worth the effort to keep track of them anymore.

[Joshua Farrell]

kinda what I am doing right now, but I am not searching for any pennies, nor anyone giving me any. I had around 15$ one time, but I spent it on stuff.