I hate carrying change!
shareIt always falls out of my pocket and in the car
shareAt least they did away the penny.
shareI'm in the US and I still use pennies. I even pick them up off the ground. If something costs $7.31, I'll use the penny and I save my change. Just cashed in $125 in change.
However, I think the US should get rid of The Penny. Seems like it costs $$ to mint all those things, and if we rounded DOWN to the next 5 cent increment, we'd be in good shape.
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No bill smaller than 5
sharethe dollar bill was replaced with a coin in 1987.
the 2 dollar bill was phased out in 1996.
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How could this have happened so long ago, and until now, I didn't know about it? 😬
I wouldn't like having to carry around a bunch of coins either.
In the US I think we got rid of our $2 around the same time. There hadn't been any for years, then for some reason the government decided to reissue them. They didn't last long. Cash registers weren't designed with a slot for them, and they were basically a pain once the novelty wore off.
i do find it annoying to have to deal with whatever bit of change i have rattling around at any given moment. i try to never carry cash, but like everyone occasionally have to use it, and inevitably accumulate a little pile of dollar coins & quarters that weigh down my pocket until i finally give it to a homeless guy or buy a $4 coffee or whatever.
i work in a homeless shelter in the finance area, and every now and then we get a donation of dollar bills, often in shockingly good shape. always makes me chuckle a little to think how long someone was hording that cash, just letting it sit idle for decades.
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I do and I don't. With our new bills they may have lasted longer, but one and two dollar bills were always in such rough shape and they were easy to fake. Now I didn't work as a cashier when there was $1 bills, but I have come across more than one fake two and five dollar bills. Higher bills as well, but we really checked the larger bills. I've only seen 1 counterfeit loonie.
sharewe got rid of notes twice that value 40 years ago in the UK!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin)