Slacker

I haven't blogged about my penny collection for a while, but I have collected $1.58 in the past month.

That makes the total $7.79

New Totals!

$6.21. That's the new total. I found $1.12 on the ground in the classroom over the course of this week.

10/7

I found five pennies on the floor of the faculty loung beneath Mr. Strickler's chair. That bring's my total to $5.09!

A bit of a windfall

Amazingly, at the end of one of my classes today, I discovered $1.02 on the floor. 97 pennies and one nickel. So, that brings my total to $5.04.

There's a rumor going around that Alex MacMiller strategically placed these pennies on the ground, but the young man did not take direct responsibility for it. If he did place these pennies for me to find, that's extremely generous. If not, I suppose I found myself especially lucky today.

With your iPhones and Facebooks, it's easy to expect immediate gratification, but not everybody can have a diamond encrusted birthday cake like Li'l Wayne. So, it's important to take advantage of the smaller opportunities...each time you capitalize on a small opportunity, like picking up a penny, you pave the way for a larger opportunity.

Furthermore, I saw that Jon Gosselin, of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, put a sign outside of his house warning that no cameras were welcome on his lawn anymore. Well, it must have been hard for some people to take that sign seriously because he misspelled penalty; he wrote "under penelty of law." So, in keeping with my mission of helping the youth of America master the English language, you should all know how to spell "penalty" now.

10/2

The total is $4.02. I found 6 cents in the classroom today. If I would have had 98 more cents, I could have worn denim today!

Seventy five cents

I found 75 cents in the form of three quarters at lunch. That makes it $3.96.

9/30/2009

I found 4 cents in the faculty lounge today. That's $2.81, and during my period 2 today. Anyway, they witnessed the collection of 40 cents in the form of 1 quarter, 2 nickels, and 5 pennies. That makes my pennies from heaven total...$3.21.

If I can replicate that 10,000 times, I can buy my Avalanche.

9/30/2009

I found 4 cents in the faculty lounge today. That's $2.82.

9/28

Today I found 78 cents in my class room. I found 3 quarters and 3 pennies. $2.77 is my total!

Wasting Money

Over the weekend, I walked into a CVS, and there was a panhandler asking for change outside the store. I didn't have any money on me, so I didn't give him any change. I spent some time in the store, and when I came out, the panhandler was gone. Where he was sitting, I saw a pile of pennies. There must have been fifty pennies there on the ground, and the panhandler was gone!

Needless to say, this aggravated me. He had just been asking for change, and then he leaves a bunch of pennies behind. What a waste of money! Pennies are still money, and anybody who is truly in need should understand the value of a penny. To sit outside a store and ask for money, only to leave behind a pile of change is wasteful and ridiculous.

It's like the time somebody stole all the change from my car...well, they almost stole all the change from my car. They probably got away with seventy-five cents in silver coins, but they left behind another fifty cents in pennies. Robbery, burglary...whatever you want to call it, if you're stealing because you need it, you shouldn't be TOO GOOD for pennies.

9/21

So, it's still early, but I have found four cents today. Strickler dropped 3 pennies on the floor in the faculty lounge, and after school, I found one penny under my desk.

So, my total is $1.99.

I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do with all this money, but I do hope to prove the old saying, "Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves."

We'll see how effective that can be.

9/18/2009

After mandatory X, I found 90 cents on the ground.

That brings the total to 1.05 + .90= $1.95!

Almost two dollars in two days of blogging is not bad at all!

I found 37 cents in the no student section...one quarter, one dime, and two pennies.

That makes my total, uh, something plus something else. $1.05

total is now 68 cents. I found two pennies and one dime in the no student section.

9/18/2009

I found another quarter!

total is now 56 cents.

9/18/2009

I just found a quarter on the floor!

Total...31 cents!

9/18/2009

today I found two pennies already before noon! One of them was behind a desk in the classroom, and I had to sail over the desk to grab it. Another one was smack-dab in the middle of my walkway. I grabbed that, too.

My total is now 6 cents.

9/17/09

I found a penny on the floor of the faculty lounge today. Well, I didn't so much find it as Mr. Ryan threw it onto the ground after I told him about this blog.

That brings my total to 4 cents.

9/16

I found a penny tonight as I was crossing the street on the way back from Ralph's.

That makes my total 3 cents.

9/15/2009

I found two pennies today:

One was at work, and the other one was at Claire's in the mall.

That brings my total of money I've found on the ground to 2 cents.