this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
398 points (98.5% liked)

News

33152 readers
4784 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pennies are produced and put into circulation, but people are not saving them and exchanging them for dollars, and they don't spend them again. They are constantly being produced and lost. Maybe in the 1960s people felt the need to gather their pennies for reuse but not today.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago

I guess. It all depends on whether or not you can afford to igonore pennies.

If I can not have to break down a dollar bill by fishing 54 cents - two quarters and 4 pennies out of my change purse, I'll do it.

I've found that it's when people break bigger bills down, that smaller notes tend to disappear faster.

This is what the term "nickel and diming" is about.. It's getting you to give up more money in total by taking smaller amounts more often.

It is a thing that's real.

The flip-side of that is what happens with getting paid daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly. It's the day labor that ends up constantly skint, because they weren't dealing with large whole number balances. Even getting paid weekly, I was saving less than when I went to every two weeks. Now that I'm self-employed, I choose when to bill, and I do so monthly. Get BIG checks and sink it all straight into savings. Because I am paid every 4 weeks, I have to change how I spend and spend less and save more. LOTS more.

Pennies count at that point. Critically.

I've yet to earn more than 35k in a year - (and that was years ago) - and the biggest thing is havng a balance and seeing that numnber in the savings account rise. I have found that sticking to large lump sums - psychologicaly, you want to hold onto it more and it does change how you aproach savings and money in general.

I can take a couple hundred dollar bills and slip them into a book on the shelf and they'll sit there for months before I dig them out. I can try the same thing with 5 20 dollar bills and they're usually gone within a week.