How many five cent pieces do you feel comfortable handing over when you buy something? My limit is four. On a really good day.Which is prolly why I have a sack of the things lying around at home.
I wish I was the kind of person who didn't care. It's legal tender, after all.
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When I'm down to the bottom of my coin purse and I don't want to break a note, there is no limit to the number of 5 cents I'll laboriously count out.
I'd say anything up to 50% of the value of whatever I'm purchasing. At a push, so well described by Jessica, I think I could go the whole way depending on how much I wanted whatever it was.
I think I'd be willing to go the whole way for a coffee on a long day...
Gosh. So brazen.
Well, that's good news, Lairdy. It's lost it's street value anyway.
It used to be that one of these little coins could buy me a red frog. Nothing to sneeze at, obviously.
Nowadays it'd only get me maybe the back legs and abdomen of said frog.
Darn subscribe to comments, now I want a red frog.
Which is right and good, as they are basically the greatest food in the whole world ever.
The green ones are vastly inferior, but I find a 3:1 ratio works well. A green frog every 3 red cleanses the pallate, and renews the excitement when you then return to the red.
Re: ratio HAAAHAHA HAHAAAAA HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! And also, how true.
I have paid for an entire takeaway order in 5/10/20 cent pieces. It was awesome.
Or collect them and take them to the bank - it's a nice little savings plan...
Amy- I could never do that. Can you be my mentor/life coach? Thanks.
And everyone always gives me that answer of go to the bank and exchange it. No. All I picture is a snide young bank teller rolling his/her eyes as I push my wad of fives across the counter, expecting them to count it up. Can't do it.
Well, I'm not sure if it holds true in Aus, but here the truth be told, a small business may actually be very glad to be paid in coinage. So many pay with bills that they can sometimes run short. I have no shame in paying with small coins - I just try to be sure I have enough and can be relatively quick about it so as not to hold the line up.
I couldn't do any more than four either. Even four would be pushing it.
I'm amazed that so many people can pay entire bills in them!?
We use a lot of cash in Japan and heaps of coins, right down to the one yen coin which is worth 1.19 Australian cents. The largest coin is 500 yen, which is worth nearly $6. I love to pay for something with exact change!
I was taught in school that you could pay up to 20c in 1 & 2c coins (obviously this is going back a while) and I think it was up to 50c or maybe $1 in 5c pieces. I think the max for silver generally was $5.
It was up to the merchant as to whether they wanted to accept more than that - i.e. they had the legal right to refuse any more small coins. I generally find that merchants accepting cash prefer smaller rather than larger anyway because that way they have more change available (and have to find less for you). I tend to feel sorry for them when all I've got is a large note (say a $50) and all I'm buying is the newspaper for $1.10.
I was told also that after the GST came in the mint had to start producing more coins to cope with the price changes. On a friend's suggestion I took to using a separate coin purse so I can easily dig out the change rather than have more shrapnel accumulate. It was a two sided one so I could keep a $5 or $10 note in one side and coins in the other but one zip died so I have to dig out the wallet as well more often now.
I think no limit to the number of 5c coins, but it is all about the time factor. If you are ready to go with the correct amount of 5c coins, hand them over. But, if you have to dig in the corners of your wallet, collect the coins in your hand, count, re-count, get the cashier to count again... too much.
I'll tell you what just happened to me. Emboldened by this comment thread I went and bought my $3coffee and paid for it with:
1x 1 dollar coin
1x 50c coin
5x 20c coins
5x 10c coins
I didn't dillydally, it was all ready to go on cue. And I was met with:
"Aw Ben, what are you trying to do to me?" from the girl, and
"Is that your pocket money for the week is it mate" from the bloke.
Imagine if I brought 5c coins into the equation.
Ben, if you take it to the bank, they don't count it out. They just weigh it on their special machine. It's not that big a deal, especially if you get some ziplock coin bags from them the day before and then count it out beforehand into the correct.... oh hang on, it is a big deal. Nevermind.
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