Let me admit this now: I am not someone you want to stand behind in a check-out line. I’m that person who gets a bill of $9.87 and insists on digging through the depths of my change purse for a five-dollar bill, two loonies, one toonie, three quarters, one dime and two pennies, all so that I might avoid carrying more coins around.
So when a reader (oh jeez, I forget who, sorry) sent me an email last week pointing out that this was, in fact, a very green thing to do, I was elated. Finally! I at last had a way to justify this otherwise irksome behaviour. This site explains why — basically, keeping change in circulation means the Royal Canadian Mint has less of it to churn out.
And how, then, does this qualify as a change to my current lifestyle, you ask? Well, I’m just gonna have to be even more anal about the whole procedure. So if I need five cents, I’ll try looking for five pennies before searching for a nickel (seriously, don’t stand behind me).
Image courtesy of the CBC (where else could it have come from, really?)
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