Originally Posted by
ZMAN
You guys should move to Canada. We have a $1, and $2 coins.
It doesn't take many of them in a bucket to make a Grand. They replaced the paper bills. Now it is nothing to have 10 bucks in coins in your poket, with 5 coins.
A lot of us carry small coin pouches to save wear and tear on the pockets.
They've tried $1.00 coins here, nobody likes them. Personally, I find them annoying too. Whenever I travel to Canada or especially Europe, I end up with extra pounds of weight in my pocket from all of the one dollar/one euro coins. Since the coins have no intrinsic (precious metal) value, give me the paper instead...much easier to carry. I still have about 15 Euro in coins in the safe from our last trip to Europe (along with some paper as well). At least it's gone up in value with the US dollar on the slide.
And, for anyone who has not bought a 'helping hands' here's you chance, cheap, if there's a Harbor Freight Tools near you.
http://www.harborfreight.com/helping...campaign=0911b
Ah, nothing relieves the discomfort of GAS pains like the sound of the UPS truck rumbling down your street. It's like the musician's Beano.