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Stop Printing Pennies
There’s something about pennies that just feels right.
Maybe it’s the excitement of finding one on the sidewalk, the curiosity of checking the year it was minted, or the tradition of throwing one into a fountain and making a wish.
We grew up with pennies. When I was young, a penny could still buy you…jack shit. BUT when my grandparents were young, you could buy a short movie! I wouldn’t pay a penny today to see the new two-hour Joker movie, but I digress.
They’re part of history. A bit of American tradition…
But it’s reckless to keep making them.
The U.S. government loses over $100 million every year printing pennies. That’s not an exaggeration; that’s the number from the U.S. Mint’s own records.
To put it another way—for every family of three, that’s a dollar a year in taxes going toward minting a coin that most people won’t even bother to pick up off the street. We might as well just throw a dollar in the trash.
Actually…throwing a dollar in the trash would be better! Pennies are made from zinc and copper, metals known for causing significant environmental damage during mining. Not to mention, they’re a major choking hazard for babies.
It seems right, but it's so wrong!
It’s time to stop printing pennies—obviously. But I didn’t write this newsletter to disappoint you with government inefficiency…that’s just a bonus!
My suggestion is that we’re all ‘printing pennies’ in our lives, and we should try to stop.
Maybe it’s convincing ourselves we’re “working” by just sorting through emails.
Or maybe we’re still holding onto the box from our new shoes, just in case… in case of what, I have no idea.
I have done both of these recently.
Taking a few minutes to reflect on where we’re ‘printing pennies’ may not save us $100 million a year, but it’ll likely save us a few bucks, some time, and a lot of energy.
Discover some pennies you’re printing? Reply to this email and let me know! I’d love to hear from you.
😄 Funny Business
📊 Community Poll
Results for last week’s question: When you drop food on the floor, how do you decide what to do with it?
Glad to see we don’t mind a little dirt in the diet. If it looks clean, I’m eating it!
Big no to eating fur. Appreciate you sharing your wisdom, J <3
Don’t be hatin’ just because you don’t have a heightened palate for the delicacy of kibble, C.
On to this week’s question…
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If you seek tranquility, do less. Or (more accurately) do what’s essential—what the reason of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better. — Marcus Aurelius