Since the country is financially unbalanced, most people feel the stress of the times. Hence, this blog on what I have always thought was important, financially speaking.
A few years ago, I was grocery shopping when a couple of boys came flying down the aisle; one of them spilling coins from his pocket. I watched as the coins loudly clinked across the tile floor. The boy turned to look down for a second but decided to leave it and ran after his friend. I thought that some kids today don't appreciate the worth of a penny. So I picked up the coins and kept them.
Now I have a new home in Montana.
I remember visiting my daughter in San Francisco and seeing a homeless woman on the street corner begging for money. The street corners were very crowded with people pushing to get through. She asked me for money. I looked on the ground around her feet where hundreds of pennies were lying. She was actually stepping on them.
I said to her, "You have pennies here on the ground."
She replied, "Those are "only" pennies."
I said, "I would be picking up those pennies myself."
That's when my daughter grabbed me and told me to stop talking to homeless people.
I think it's the simple things in life, financially speaking, that make us rich.
Counting our Pennies.
Some years ago before our finances got complicated my husband and I would do our taxes together. My husband would joke, "see you in jail" because I would insist on sending in my calculated "Tax Returns," instead of his returns. My calculations would always be in "our" favor.
Of course, I paid the bills and I kept the receipts so I had confidence I had more information than he had even if I could not balance the check book to the penny.
He would look for hours for that one penny off set which was an abstract penny to me since it wasn't in my hand.
When I get a bill for $100.01, I wonder, what's with the "one cent?" I know I am not the only one counting my pennies.
I am sure if our Government had to pick up all those pennies from under that homeless woman's feet, the country would not have a 16 Trillion dollar debt.
Today, unfortunately, most of us, see hundreds of pennies lying around the house or on the street, not being used for anything; as if, they are worthless....
we begin to think pennies are worthless. Are they?
