I still have a few hundred coins in a bowl on my kitchen shelf – like that drawer of old electronics you don’t throw out ...
If you’re an aging baby boomer, you likely fell prey to the same nonsense. In 1959, the new Lincoln Memorial penny, stamped with “UNITED STATES oF AMERICA,” was unveiled. The weird spelling ...
“A penny for your thoughts,” she muttered. That was not the first time I had ever heard that. Growing up in a family of older folks from centuries past, a lot of sentences were about the penn ...
As kids, we flipped pennies at lunchtime and collected them in jars. “Penny for your thoughts” is an inexpensive way of making conversation and saying “I care about you.” The penny is the ...
So much for every penny counts. Would a penny for your thoughts retain any value? Would it remain a question of endearment or become an insult? What happens to all the penny pinchers? Do they ...
Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations [sic] budget, even if it’s a penny at a time.” In the FOX interview before the Philadelphia Eagles whipped the Chiefs, Trump was asked by Fox ...
“But a penny, you’re just not going to look for it.” My late mom, Effie, was so cute. She’d buy items in a store and pay the cashier right down to the penny if she had the coins available ...
Memphis coach Penny Hardaway thrilled fans as an NBA player and showed his chops as a college recruiter in the early days of ...
I found one penny tarnished by time, and to check the year, I put on my readers – something I didn’t need to do when the coin came out. Which was 1963. I can't deny I was thrilled to find one ...