I can understand why they want dollar coins. Since the value of a dollar isn't all that great, you wear out the one dollar bills pretty fast and then it costs money to make new bills. All things considered, making one dollar bills with such frequency is probably more expensive than the monetary value of said bills. Simply put, a one dollar bill probably costs more than one dollar to make.
This is why we in Sweden have long since switched to coins for many of the lower values. Our smallest bill is the 20 crown bill (which is approx. $2.60).
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She's got an awfully nice bum!
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That is why they do it. $1 bills get the crap beaten out of them. However, a sock full of loonies can beat the crap out of anything. so....
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The problem with the american $1 coin is that they KEEP making it almost indistinguishable from a quarter. Like giving it smooth edges and/or a slightly different color is going to make it simple to distinguish in dim light when you are fumbling for change in front of the motel pop machine after a ten hour drive. Nobody wants to mess with the headache of sorting through them.
If they made dollar coins significantly larger than the other coins, so that people could at least instantly identify them by touch the way we can with all the other american coins, it would give the sucker a fighting chance.
If they made dollar coins significantly larger than the other coins, so that people could at least instantly identify them by touch the way we can with all the other american coins, it would give the sucker a fighting chance.
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Well, I'm like CX. I don't like change. I generally pay in bills and then just dump the change in a jar when I get home. (Which actually works out nicely, 'cause when the jar gets full, it's usually a $100 or more.) So I could care less about a $1 coin. It too would go in my jar. 
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I don't know why they insist on keeping that 50 cents going. I only ever see one every six years or so. I tried to pay with one at 7-11 once and the clerk was all "what's this? i can't take this..."
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Well, my summer wardrobe that I spent all my "coin" on to buy online just came in, and it all fits! Yay! I bought it all from Victoria's Secret (Yes...they make CLOTHES too! Clothes with hidden enhancers of all shapes and sizes!). Only one problem. Now that I look like a million bucks from the neck down, what am I gonna do about the FACE? 
Yuk. I'm seriously considering a paper bag. Or maybe a face lift. It's hell to be over forty.
Yuk. I'm seriously considering a paper bag. Or maybe a face lift. It's hell to be over forty.
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Kevin Thomas Riley wrote:I can understand why they want dollar coins. Since the value of a dollar isn't all that great, you wear out the one dollar bills pretty fast and then it costs money to make new bills. All things considered, making one dollar bills with such frequency is probably more expensive than the monetary value of said bills. Simply put, a one dollar bill probably costs more than one dollar to make.
This is why we in Sweden have long since switched to coins for many of the lower values. Our smallest bill is the 20 crown bill (which is approx. $2.60).
American bills can survive a lot more than the bills used by other countries. They have to go through impossible torture tests to simulate getting put through the laundry many more times than they ever realistically would in their lifetime. That's why it's been so difficult for the US to come up with new ways to thwart counterfeiters by using holograms, as well as putting in plastic brail inserts for the blind as other countries have done with their currency. As for the $2 coin or bill, the US used to have a $2 bill, but it discontinued it because it wasn't getting used that much. After all, why use a deux when it's just as easy to use two singles?
Distracted wrote:Well, my summer wardrobe that I spent all my "coin" on to buy online just came in, and it all fits! Yay! I bought it all from Victoria's Secret (Yes...they make CLOTHES too! Clothes with hidden enhancers of all shapes and sizes!). Only one problem. Now that I look like a million bucks from the neck down, what am I gonna do about the FACE?
Yuk. I'm seriously considering a paper bag. Or maybe a face lift. It's hell to be over forty.
Come on, you look great, Dis.
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Distracted wrote:Well, my summer wardrobe that I spent all my "coin" on to buy online just came in, and it all fits! Yay! I bought it all from Victoria's Secret (Yes...they make CLOTHES too! Clothes with hidden enhancers of all shapes and sizes!). Only one problem. Now that I look like a million bucks from the neck down, what am I gonna do about the FACE?
Yuk. I'm seriously considering a paper bag. Or maybe a face lift. It's hell to be over forty.
Seriously though I have no idea what you're talking about... I'd exchange my face for one like yours anytime
well but then it wouldn't match the skin tone of the rest of my body 
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Easy for you to say, Cx. You don't have to spend 30 minutes every am painting over wrinkles and applying ACNE creams (Yep. Still have that, too.) I appreciate the positive strokes, but sometimes I really envy men. What man would put up with having to put three layers of goop on his face every morning just to be what society calls presentable? Sigh. It's just not fair. I can't go barefaced, though. I'm too old and too vain. It's a catch 22. 
Whatchu talkin' about, T'Poptarts? You're young and exotically beautiful. You've just got to learn to smile more often. Me, on the other hand...well...they say if you have acne and oily skin when you're younger that you'll have fewer wrinkles when you're older. So far, I seem to have "combination skin". A combination of acne AND wrinkles!
You don't have to spend 30 minutes every am painting over wrinkles and applying ACNE creams (Yep. Still have that, too.) I appreciate the positive strokes, but sometimes I really envy men. What man would put up with having to put three layers of goop on his face every morning just to be what society calls presentable? Sigh. It's just not fair. I can't go barefaced, though. I'm too old and too vain. It's a catch 22. Whatchu talkin' about, T'Poptarts? You're young and exotically beautiful. You've just got to learn to smile more often. Me, on the other hand...well...they say if you have acne and oily skin when you're younger that you'll have fewer wrinkles when you're older. So far, I seem to have "combination skin". A combination of acne AND wrinkles!
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Ugh, nope if I was like "exotically beautiful" I'd get way more roles. Well that and if my big fat ass wasn't so big and fat
Well but you really don't look like "old and ugly" or whatever nonsense to me so I don't understand
if I was like "exotically beautiful" I'd get way more roles. Well that and if my big fat ass wasn't so big and fat Well but you really don't look like "old and ugly" or whatever nonsense to me so I don't understand
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Distracted wrote:Well, my summer wardrobe that I spent all my "coin" on to buy online just came in, and it all fits! Yay! I bought it all from Victoria's Secret (Yes...they make CLOTHES too! Clothes with hidden enhancers of all shapes and sizes!). Only one problem. Now that I look like a million bucks from the neck down, what am I gonna do about the FACE?
Yuk. I'm seriously considering a paper bag. Or maybe a face lift. It's hell to be over forty.
Do what I do. Grow a beard.
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Ugh, nope if I was like "exotically beautiful" I'd get way more roles. Well that and if my big fat ass wasn't so big and fat
DAMMIT T'POPTARTS! WHAT DID I TELL YOU!
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blackn'blue wrote:Distracted wrote:Well, my summer wardrobe that I spent all my "coin" on to buy online just came in, and it all fits! Yay! I bought it all from Victoria's Secret (Yes...they make CLOTHES too! Clothes with hidden enhancers of all shapes and sizes!). Only one problem. Now that I look like a million bucks from the neck down, what am I gonna do about the FACE?
Yuk. I'm seriously considering a paper bag. Or maybe a face lift. It's hell to be over forty.
Do what I do. Grow a beard.
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Uh, I do. If my bf doesn't shave, he knows I'm not going to be happy. 
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Distracted wrote:blackn'blue wrote:Distracted wrote:Well, my summer wardrobe that I spent all my "coin" on to buy online just came in, and it all fits! Yay! I bought it all from Victoria's Secret (Yes...they make CLOTHES too! Clothes with hidden enhancers of all shapes and sizes!). Only one problem. Now that I look like a million bucks from the neck down, what am I gonna do about the FACE?
Yuk. I'm seriously considering a paper bag. Or maybe a face lift. It's hell to be over forty.
Do what I do. Grow a beard.
Thats true, but it sure the hell is a pain in the neck growwin a beard. I honestly cant decide which is worse though, cutting/nickin myself everytime I shave, or itching none stop from letting the dang lil suckers grow out. Why I usualy just trim it down, instead of shavin. No cuts then, enterprikayak wrote:Ugh, nope if I was like "exotically beautiful" I'd get way more roles. Well that and if my big fat ass wasn't so big and fat
DAMMIT T'POPTARTS! WHAT DID I TELL YOU!
Yeah! Please stop. You dont have a "big, Fat ass", an you are beautiful young women.TnT I love em. 
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