Find your change

So, it seems the U.S. Treasury has finally done it. They have decided to stop making the penny. I am curious to know what this transition will do for those of us who like to pay cash for things. Will we get the correct change back? Will they round up or will they round down? Who will get the benefit of the rounding, the customer or the store? These are all important questions. 

The news about the penny made me think about how valuable a penny can be. I remember a time, early marriage, when my husband, David, and I were in desperate need of even one penny. We were, as they say, “flat busted.” We were living in a small town in Kansas with the parents of a friend of ours. David was a truck driver. Our friend told him there were lots of trucking jobs there, so went looking for one.

We spent several weeks there, and the move was not fruitful. He could not find a trucking job. We were young, so at the time we could literally live on “love and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,” or we thought we could.