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>>699943
are we talking a busy sidewalk? or no one around within sight?

maybe a 5 spot

5 bucks

>>699954
>>699946
i would do it for a quarter, but only if it was shiny

I am a very important business guy.
Even bending down to pick up some pittance left on the ground is far beneath me.
In fact I wouldn't even be walking on such streets. My chauffeur would take me directly where I need to go without having to engage in such trifling activities.

>>699962
do you swim in money that you keep in a giant vault?

>>699943

>in a parking lot waiting on my girlfriend to come out the store
>woman comes out of the store
>walks into the parking lot area, she's a few cars away from me
>I had my window down
>I heard and saw a coin drop
>I watched that coin until it stopped
>I watched her and she didn't go back for it
>I waited until she left
>I got out of my car, ran over, and retrieved the coin
>It was a nickel
>I was happy as a motherfucker

I will go out of my way to pick up a fucking penny. For a quarter, shit nigga, I'll crawl on my knees and lick the pavement.

>tfw there was a 20 dollar bill on the ground
>didn't pick it up because there was a lot of people around me and I didn't want to get judged.

>>699968

>in grocery store
>there's a penny on the ground near the self-checkout
>I didn't want anyone to see me pick it up, so I acted like I was tying my shoe
>grabbed the coin
>make it halfway to the door, this old lady flags me down
>Son, I want you to have this
>Gives me a $100 bill
>I start talking, you know, to tell her thanks but no thanks
>I saw you pick up that penny. You need this more than I do
>watched her walk out and get into a brand new Mercedes convertible.

>>699943
a quarter but maybe because i'm older and cheaper

>>699974
She was coming on to you.
you blew it
Could have been written into that will.
ca ching

>>699978
:(

>>699974
You turned a penny into $100.01. That's awesome ROI. I'd happily be judged if people gave me $100 bills.

Depends how busy I am.

>>699980
lel people can judge me all they want for picking up $20 off the ground

>>699943
I've picked up pennies just because.

I once threw about 10 quarters into a busy road. Some old lady almost got hit by a car trying to pick them up. Best entertainment ever!

...i pick up de 1 cents

One time I was walking past a bank and I picked up two tens and a twenty. Then I saw a homeless guy walking around asking people for change.

I told myself I'd go back at some point and give him some of that cash.

I never did.

>>699974
>preplant pennies around highly visible areas in rich liberal communites
>just walk around all day getting free money

someone try this

>>699943
If it was pic related. I would pick it up because seeing an American dollar bill is cooler in Canada than a loonie

A quarter. Mostly because getting change for laundry is a pain in the ass.

the largest amount i've seen, and proceeded to pass over, was 20 bucks. i doubt i'd go for a single fifty or hundred either. maybe a roll.

>>700083
Fuck that guy. He gets plenty of free money already. The rest of us have to work for a living.

>>699943
For fun, epoxy some nickels to the sidewalk in a chinatown.

They won't give up trying to pick it up.

Depends how far I am from the nearest police station where I can turn it in.

>Eat at subway twice a week.
>They changed my orders price from 5.00 to 5.75 or something.
>Used to carry $5's to pay
>Now I just give the guy $10 and have him keep the change.
>Poor fuck thinks I'm some kind of generous saint.
Money is filthy, if your not getting crisp bills from a bank you shouldn't touch it. I'd never pick money up off the ground. I actively pay the guy so I don't have to touch their money.

>>699943

1 shiny crisp dollar. If dirty, 5.

>>699943
1p

>>699966
Nigga are you serious?
What would you do for a dollar?
Or five bucks via PayPal?

I usually empty my pockets of coins below £1.
I like to place them on walls as I walk out of a shop or give them to homeless people.
I give away folding money quite often,
Especially if they look desperate or have an entertaining ruse/story.

If I picked up a coin, it would be for this purpose.
Not rich, just comfortably well-off, but I had to hustle hard to get where I am.

Someone more needy (or greedy) will pick it up.
I have been in enough situations where 50p would make all the difference.
Begging does not come easily to everyone.

>>699974
Ha ha!

>in supermarket
>ask for cigarettes
>shopkeeper turns around
>spot crisply folded £20 note ($30) on top of snickers bar on the counter display
>some anon must have dropped it while paying
>grab snickers, palm note
>put snickers bar on counter
>'and that please'
>pay with £20 note & get change
>mfw I got free shit and money for going into a supermarket

Also - PROTIP - if you are desperate or have no shame, find coffee shops, bars and pubs with sofas or armchairs.
Walk in, sit on sofa, plunge hand down the sides, retrieve cash.
I would honestly make about £10 per venue doing this.
Don’t believe me?
Ask yourself how many people would think of it, then actually do it.
I only found out about this by actually losing a coin from my pocket and scooping out a bunch of coins retrieving it.
Which is a great cover story if someone asks what you are doing...

>>699943
I'd pick up any coin or note, as long as it didn't cause me a problem to do so. It all adds up and it's all useful to somebody. I put small coins into a box which I give to a charity when it gets full.

>>700215
I picked up 5x1penny 1x10p last week.
Then I gave it to a woman that didn't have money for the bus.
You don't know when you'll need the money and there is not investment in picking money from the streets you walk on anyways.

>>699943

I'd pick up a quarter if I wasn't around someone who I am talking business with or someone I am trying to impress/have to act proper around.

$1

I'd pick up 1 DOGE

>inb4 someone makes a "pennies on the ground" ETF

I'd pick up a quarter and then ponder how it arrived here.

>>699943
50 cent, it also has to do with who is looking at me.

1 cent.

Why would I not catch money when I can and I'm not wasting resources by doing it?

>>700264
Precious joints tear and wear.
Damages to personal image.
Waste of time resource.

>>700083
>giving money to homeless

They get free shit from the government, fuck em

>>700264
its inconveniant to carry around coins. They are worth little yet are more annoying to store and bring around with you. Id rather not bother with them

>>699966

So did you vote for the likud party in the last election?

>>699943
I'd pick your mom up off the street. So like $1 or so?

>jewish
penny.

>>699962
>translation
I am a homeless man who picks up change every day and I decided to post to /biz/ from an old cell phone I found in the dumpster pretending to be rich

>>699974
That 10000% return on assets

>>700220

>I check the coin slots of every vending machine I come across
>I've test drove used cars before, only to pull over somewhere and check the car for change before taking it back to the dealership

I will have to try your sofa idea. That's a good one.

>>699943
>>699943
>>699943
>>699943
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-ama-video-2014-2

Bill Gates Says He Would Pick Up $100 If He Found It On The Ground

Gates says in the video that "all my thoughts about money were formed at a time when $100 really was a substantial amount of money. If it's lying there, maybe it belongs to somebody and you ought to find it for them and return it to them. It'd be nice. They're probably fairly distraught about having dropped it. But I would pick it up and give it to [The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation] because there, $100 actually buys quite a bit."

>>700345
>>700345
>>700345
>>700345
>>700345
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FlAGx8h7w

I'd stop and pick up £1, maybe 50p, depending on the environment. I don't even spend the money I have. The person who picks it up if I don't probably needs it more than me.

>>699974
>be me
>carrying pole vault bag, 5 11-13 foot poles wit bro
>he sees penny on ground
>bends to pick it up, all the poles fall out
now we calll him a filthy jew everytime he picks one up, it seriously pisses me off because he'll do it even when carrying stuff or busy

>>700264
opportunity cost

>>700588
>taking things literally

its just PR

>>700585
how often do you actually find coins in the vending machine?

Lowest I'd bend down to get is a nickel but if the penny is particularly shiny I'd pick it up

>>700161
Why not pay with plastic then?

I've been picking up pennies since I was like 10. I put them in a special jar that was my "street money" jar. At 20 I decided to count it all. It was 1300.46 dollars. 145.00 in pennies. Sure it seems like nothing given the range in time, but it's fucking amazing considering it was coins and the occasional buck on the fucking ground. I also pick up shiny rocks.

>>700965
Also on a side note, someone gave me a roll of nickels as a gag for a 5 bag of weed once. I got wasted later that night and stumbled into a secret little stairwell that lead to the roof of a small building in between some apartments. I spent 30 minutes whipping coins at people leaving a restaurant across the street.

I wouldnt pick it up because it belongs to someone else.

>>700941
Because he's lying, duh.

>>701786
Noice

>>699943
I bent over to pick up a tiny rusty screw driver the other day. I also pick shit out of the garbage if I can get $5 on CL for it.

>>700223
>gave it too a woman who didn't have money for the bus
>the bus
>heroin

>>700220
You're just the kind of hero we need.

3xp.info come join the new facebook

>>702188

If I'm walking, a dollar.
If I'm just standing or sitting there, a quarter.

I take anything I don't give a fuck

>>700097
I guarantee you that old lady was not a liberal.

>>699943
A fiver.

Anyway, related story (/biz/ will probably hate me for this).

Back during 2007-2008 I was really into ron paul's presidential campaign. Canvassed places with pamphlets, hung banners from overpasses, went to meetup groups and all that sort of stuff.

So somebody in our group got these little paper squares that were about half the size of $20 bills, and when folded in half looked like the backside of a $20 folded in quarters. If you picked it up and opened it the inside (which you would think would be the front of the $20 bill) was actually a lengthy message about fiat currency and returning to a gold standard and stuff like that. So we thought this was the most hilarious fucking thing in the world, got a bunch of them, and started carrying them and dropping them in public places, then watching what people do.

Funniest shit was at a busy sort of popular country themed bar on a friday night. It was a big bar and we dropped probably a dozen of these things all over the place, sometimes from the second level balcony onto the first level dancing floor. Holy shit did people do crazy things to try to grab them.

>We dropped one by the entrance
>walked away and watched.
>Some guy pushed his way across a sea of people,
>got close to it, then with this ridiculous slyness that he probably that was clever as fuck, inched over to it, and steps on it.
>puts his hands in his pockets, looks around and slowly bends down like he needs to tie his shoe.
>Grabs the paper from underneath his shoe, stuffs it in his pocket.
>Goes to the bar, holds up 4 fingers and asks for something that I would assume is 4 drinks for him and his friends. \
>Bar tender goes away to get his drinks, he's got this big ass smile on his face.
>Reaches into his pocket and pulls out the "20", immediately notices something odd. Unfolds it and gets SUPER mad.
>Scrams away from the bar and into the bathroom.
>Can't stop laughing.

>>700585
>>700844
LOL, ironically, on a side note, I often put vending machine change straight back into the machine, or just leave it there deliberately.

You're welcome.

>>702366
You were doing Gods work anon.

>>702380

10 cents, depending on mood and situation maybe 20 or 50 cents
the 1€ probably in any situation

Pennies. No joke its free money why not.

A negative dollar