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It wasn't until I went to the UK in my late 20s that I realized how badly America needs coins in the dollar and two dollar denomination. Having spare coins with
by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
It wasn't until I went to the UK in my late 20s that I realized how badly America needs coins in the dollar and two dollar denomination. Having spare coins with weight and mass rather than loose dollar bills helped me get a sense of how many loose singles I had, and being able to drop a couple coins on a counter to pay for cheap items (a bag of M&Ms, a cup of coffee) is somehow, I don't know how, but somehow more ergonomic.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoThe US actually has one dollar coins, and it's common for vending machines to spit them out as change. They're the exact same size as the Canadian loonie.
- kps 6y agoSo is a 2p coin. But the only machines that can't tell them apart are candy dispensers and old mechanical parking meters.
- ghaff 6y agoConversely I almost never carry change in the US and, on the increasingly rare occasions I use cash, I usually just bring the change home and dump it in a bucket. I don't want change that has any significant value.
- klyrs 6y agoThe ergonomics are a real selling point for me. Coins are certainly tidier than bills. They're low friction and hard, which makes them easy to stack, don't vanish in a puff of wind, they're easy to count...