Street Money Update! Wealthy Edition!
Oh we have been busy. We have found the money’s! The “wealthy” edition headline, may have been stretching it a bit, but it’s the most we’ve found at one time, in a long time! Various locations have placed the coin gathering…
Here: 1¢, parking lot, running trail, found it while trying to stretch and not pass out.
Here: 1¢, Zoo, (we went, we saw, we pictured, we video’d, we will post AND You Tube, the animals were crazy!! and we got it on film!! it was one of the best trips ever!!) again, one penny, Zoo, at the end of the day. Granted, there is not alot of cash with change, being passed around there. Everything is dollars or credit…kind of expensive…but it’s for the animals so…
Here: 1¢, Hooter’s. Hey, it was on the way home! I mean, we had to go RIGHT past it! Delicious! Quality time….with the kids….
Here: 24¢, Bowling Alley, inside. Kids found it near the arcade…of course! Had to do something fun on Friday too!! They were leaving me!!
Here: 1¢, Bowling Alley, outside. My find. For an even quarter over there!
Here: 1¢, at the PetSmart, outside in a puddle, it was raining by then. It was actually raining all day Friday, but we had to get some feeders for the Oscars (still got a post about those guys) and Mason got himself two, new, baby Oscars, so tiny and cute; a Tiger and an Albino. I am hoping they make it through the next week while he is gone. New fish is always a risk.
Grand total for 2 days of scouring alot of miles in Illinois: 29¢
Not a fortune, but it keeps us busy!
Check here for the year total, and be sure to keep reading for more exciting posts about: OUR EXCITING LIVES!! Hahaha.
Street Money Update!
After I ran five miles the other day, all over Park Forest, and my legs were crying, I forgot that I found a penny on the ground!
That’s pretty good huh? Finding the penny while running; not that it’s a penny. People are really holding onto their coins this season. Economy!
Street Money Update! Before I forget!
See post below. We went to a lot of places today. Found 6¢. Not terrible for the ground. Year total here.
To bed.
Street Money Update! It’s been a long time…
All these things have been going on: We have traveled. We have walked. On roads. In parking lots. Through fields. At stores. By registers. Places that accumulate many, many people; with what would seem like endless opportunities to find loose change on the ground.
And yet…nothing.
Until Sunday. Pierogi Fest. A virtual goldmine of pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters; change haphazardly stuffed into pockets, falling to the ground, waiting to be retrieved, while their people balance plates of steaming, delicious, Polish fare, and never even notice.
You would think. The streets should be shimmering with lost coins. But still…no.
Later, in a side lot, waiting for someone to finish something, trying to stay out of the way: a pay phone. Sticky, dirty, battered and chipped but containing no money. Keeping the youngest child from touching it at all, your desperate eye catches a glint of…something. Next to the phone, on the ground, there! Two little pennies hiding on the asphalt.
Glory! The slump is over. Losing streak finished. Rough patch transversed. Smooth sailing from here on out!
Two cents.
Too long.
Street Money Update!
I’ll dispense with the usual, long chatter and get to the point.
10¢ on the floor of Hooter’s–(delicious)–Mason almost had his eye poked out and a tray of crab legs and steaming wings dumped on him trying to pick it up, but hey, we work hard for the money…haha
1¢ on the ground at the arcade/mini-golf/driving range/batting cage/go-kart fun center!
We were kind of busy this weekend, having fun and spending too much money.
One day we will break even. Ha. Check here for the year count.
Street Money Update
I couldn’t wait until tomorrow! You will all be happy to know I completed my HealthCare Provider CPR class with flying colors and am now suitably renewed to continue helping in case one of you mugs drops in front of me.
I went in feeling just a bit nervous. They always have these classes in the deepest, darkest, farthest, massively corridor-ed area of the hospital basement. But once I was in…everything was fine. This was the best CPR class I EVER took. The instructors were smart, funny, experienced, and genuinely interested in helping us learn the process. I came out feeling confident and ready for action.
I’m sure some of this good cheer was the result of the lucky PENNY I found right before class!
Please compress your way to the following link to see the year total so far. And breathe.
Street Money Update! This one is actually exciting!
For me, anyhow.
It has been WAY too many days now since I found any money at all, but it was good when it was happening.
I found the basics, penny here, penny there. School, the train, in a parking lot…total of 5¢. Not bad.
And then, much to my kids disappointment because I saw it first, a whole DOLLAR!
Yes, that’s right. One green dollar bill. Laying in the grass at the SuperTarget.
So, for this week, we’ll lump it together for the end of June, we found $1.05!!
Please visit HERE for the yearly total. Happy cashing!
Street Money Update!
Everywhere we went, one cent, one cent, one cent, one cent.
Four more cents to add to the count!
Street Money Update!
The trend continues! Day of school, day of loose change on the ground.
Found another two cents! It’s raining again, but that’s the trade.
Sunshine for Pennies.
just shy of pretty 