“Keep the change,” she said to the clerk her expensive latte in one hand, head already down over her cell phone as she walked away, nonchalantly with a “no worries” attitude of shoulder shrugging whatever who cares. It’s only money, it’s only pennies, they think. But it adds up to dollars. I’ve seen her chatting with friends, and overheard their conversations about lacking money, it’s hard to feel sorry for them when a penny, or loose change means so little to this generation. They throw them in the garbage, on the ground, or they leave them on counters for the next customer.
Why not put them in the donation boxes that are on the cash counters then? We make sure that we give a share to the charities, and the rest is ours.
Pennies add up quickly, as do nickels, dimes, and quarters. In only a few months we have accumulated a few hundred dollars just by saving and rolling our change, yes hundreds. It goes into a special bank account, and we will use it to buy something we really want but don’t have in the budget right now.
It’s her life, her money, but I wonder what will happen to all of us when a generation of children grow up, ignoring the fact that loose change adds up to dollars.
These will be the people that set our government budgets, spending, and the future of our country. Do they know the value of a dollar? How will they learn? What do you do with your loose change? Jingling…