Check out this picture of a giraffe created from pennies. Just goes to show...a few pennies can be interesting, fun, and even help inspire people to save the planet! :-)
More Messages & Penny Finds!
Ah, the never ending search for pennies. I love it!!! You never know where it will take you or what you will find. I continue to have folks e-mail & text me with their finds (ok, sure...my mom & dad are the main supporters...but that counts!!). Below are the latest batch of text messages & e-mails. They still make me smile! Hard to believe a little penny could bring such excitement. It's true that we should pay more attention to the small things in life (and the big ones if you're my paper-money finding friends!).
Hope you enjoy this next batch of found money updates as much as I did!
"The First Team--Mom found a penny in Amarillo, TX and I found three (count them, three!!!) while I was pumping gas in Altus, OK. Man, we're good." --Dad 8/24/09
"you rock just found a penny. i love you." --April C. 8/29/09
"I just found a penny at a truckstop in Limon." --Paul G. 9/7/09
"Yeah I don't think I've ever got this excited about finding a penny!" --Paul G. 9/7/09
"Another one. I found a dime walking in to the Walmart yesterday." --Dad 9/7/09
"FYI--Nancy found a penny yesterday! Add it to the spreadsheet. I'll send it to you." --Jenn C. 9/18/09
"metro penny yesterday. 2 along my walk to work this a.m. Woo-hoo!!" --Julia B. 10/7/09
"$20!!!!!! Wholefoods parking lot :)" --Illeny M. 10/7/09
"Just found a dime!" --Misty C. 10/8/09
"another metro penny just now. Lincoln face up, just when I needed a smile!! :-)" --Julia B. 10/15/09
"Big Day!! While working at Lake Las Vegas today, One of the other guys found a nickel on the seat of the boat we were in. I talked him into donating it to the penny project. While waking McGruff tonight, I found a dime!!! Life is good." --Dad 10/18/09
"Big Find! While I was walking McGruff this morning, I found a quarter!" --Dad 10/22/09
"I FOUND A QUARTER enroute to work this morning. I lost my phone so don't have easy access to track down phone numbers so didn't leave a vm like usual, but this one was great - in the intersection resting on one of those manhole covers...sufficiently dingy and battered but def recognizable. I looked both ways and snatched it :). I was ecstatic." --Julia B. 10/30/09
"Found a dollar today!" --Misty C. 11/3/09
"Found 2 pennies so far today!" --Misty C. 11/7/09
Hope you enjoy this next batch of found money updates as much as I did!
"The First Team--Mom found a penny in Amarillo, TX and I found three (count them, three!!!) while I was pumping gas in Altus, OK. Man, we're good." --Dad 8/24/09
"you rock just found a penny. i love you." --April C. 8/29/09
"I just found a penny at a truckstop in Limon." --Paul G. 9/7/09
"Yeah I don't think I've ever got this excited about finding a penny!" --Paul G. 9/7/09
"Another one. I found a dime walking in to the Walmart yesterday." --Dad 9/7/09
"FYI--Nancy found a penny yesterday! Add it to the spreadsheet. I'll send it to you." --Jenn C. 9/18/09
"metro penny yesterday. 2 along my walk to work this a.m. Woo-hoo!!" --Julia B. 10/7/09
"$20!!!!!! Wholefoods parking lot :)" --Illeny M. 10/7/09
"Just found a dime!" --Misty C. 10/8/09
"another metro penny just now. Lincoln face up, just when I needed a smile!! :-)" --Julia B. 10/15/09
"Big Day!! While working at Lake Las Vegas today, One of the other guys found a nickel on the seat of the boat we were in. I talked him into donating it to the penny project. While waking McGruff tonight, I found a dime!!! Life is good." --Dad 10/18/09
"Big Find! While I was walking McGruff this morning, I found a quarter!" --Dad 10/22/09
"I FOUND A QUARTER enroute to work this morning. I lost my phone so don't have easy access to track down phone numbers so didn't leave a vm like usual, but this one was great - in the intersection resting on one of those manhole covers...sufficiently dingy and battered but def recognizable. I looked both ways and snatched it :). I was ecstatic." --Julia B. 10/30/09
"Found a dollar today!" --Misty C. 11/3/09
"Found 2 pennies so far today!" --Misty C. 11/7/09
$100?! Oh Well...It Was the Thought That Counted!
The Penny Project is ever expanding. New pennies, new people, new unbelievable stories!
The author of this story was a student in one of my facilitation classes and had already landed on the spreadsheet with his 4-cent find from the sushi restaurant where we dined during our week in class. But he's larger than life and I knew I hadn't heard the last of him with those 4 cents!
A few weeks ago he sent this story, which he wasn't sure was appropriate for the penny blog (so he shall remain nameless to protect him, me & the...uh-hum...intereting woman in his story!). But I'm a firm believe we all need a little crazy every now & then. Don't you think?!
So enjoy his tale and know that I almost refused to believe it was true (just like the rest of the students in his class didn't believe the WHOLE Penny Project was real...imagine!). But he assures me it is 100% true. 100% truth that cost us $100. Eeeek!
Leslie,
Actually do have a story… but not sure it’s good for your “penny” blog.
A group of us went to P.F. Chang’s for lunch. While standing outside I found a $100 bill on the ground… wrapped perfectly…like a squashed cigarette – square and precise.
Remembering that I had only seen people go into the restaurant since I had been standing there I figured it had to have been dropped by someone walking in.
..so…
I went inside and announced to the waiting crowd that I had found some money… did anybody lose any…
Well.. this EXTREMELY well endowed woman came bouncing up to me… hand deep in her Victoria’s Secret creation…designed more to keep her silicone safe rather than financial instruments…
Indicating that she placed a $100 bill there for safe keeping and it was now nowhere to be found….and trying to persuade me to inspect her area of safekeeping to validate her story.
She further went on to give me the information that her “friend” had given it to her to go for lunch….. not 30 minutes ago.
Now, not being one to want to speculate on the nature of the transaction... or how this tightly wadded bill had been put into its place of safekeeping…I gladly handed her back the money. Which she gratefully accepted and went bouncing back into line….telling all who would listen how “it has just fallen out.”
So I am afraid your penny collection almost had an extra $100 … but was beaten out by my fascination that there are still woman who use that location for safe keeping…
:-)
The author of this story was a student in one of my facilitation classes and had already landed on the spreadsheet with his 4-cent find from the sushi restaurant where we dined during our week in class. But he's larger than life and I knew I hadn't heard the last of him with those 4 cents!
A few weeks ago he sent this story, which he wasn't sure was appropriate for the penny blog (so he shall remain nameless to protect him, me & the...uh-hum...intereting woman in his story!). But I'm a firm believe we all need a little crazy every now & then. Don't you think?!
So enjoy his tale and know that I almost refused to believe it was true (just like the rest of the students in his class didn't believe the WHOLE Penny Project was real...imagine!). But he assures me it is 100% true. 100% truth that cost us $100. Eeeek!
Leslie,
Actually do have a story… but not sure it’s good for your “penny” blog.
A group of us went to P.F. Chang’s for lunch. While standing outside I found a $100 bill on the ground… wrapped perfectly…like a squashed cigarette – square and precise.
Remembering that I had only seen people go into the restaurant since I had been standing there I figured it had to have been dropped by someone walking in.
..so…
I went inside and announced to the waiting crowd that I had found some money… did anybody lose any…
Well.. this EXTREMELY well endowed woman came bouncing up to me… hand deep in her Victoria’s Secret creation…designed more to keep her silicone safe rather than financial instruments…
Indicating that she placed a $100 bill there for safe keeping and it was now nowhere to be found….and trying to persuade me to inspect her area of safekeeping to validate her story.
She further went on to give me the information that her “friend” had given it to her to go for lunch….. not 30 minutes ago.
Now, not being one to want to speculate on the nature of the transaction... or how this tightly wadded bill had been put into its place of safekeeping…I gladly handed her back the money. Which she gratefully accepted and went bouncing back into line….telling all who would listen how “it has just fallen out.”
So I am afraid your penny collection almost had an extra $100 … but was beaten out by my fascination that there are still woman who use that location for safe keeping…
:-)
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