Bottom Of The Barrel

See a penny, pick it up

Is good advice, but it can be taken to the extremes. Vicki Armstrong, of Shreveport, Louisiana, has been saving pennies for almost 19 years, from all sources - change, co-workers, the street - where ever she found them, she kept them. If you went to her home, you might find a vase, bowl or shoebox full of pennies. And now that she is going to retire, Armstrong is ready to turn them all into her local bank - all 55,000 she has collected. That is for sure the hard way to collect $550 and is probably by far the heaviest - 55,000 pennies would weigh just over 300 pounds. Now that's some heavy dough!

posted by TheWino @ 11:43 AM