07/16/2026
The penny.... not worth much on its own, but if you can put away 1 cent every 5 to 10 minutes through the course of 12 hours, 7 days in a row, you would not be doing to bad. At Taco Bell, my order was $12.21 and I was given change for $12.25. At the gas station, I bought a few drinks and it came out to $5.22 and my change was made for $5.25
I get it, when you're at $5.23, You're in the middle of a rounding function for $5.22 and $5.21 should be rounded down to $5.20. $5.23 and $5.24 can be round up to 5:25
So now I use my credit card to make sure that I'm not spending $0.30 a day on rounding issues. When you use a credit card, the business actually is losing money. I'm being taught through example to no use cash.
Why can't we program our cash registers to round? We all knew that the penny was going away, but why invest in programming when you're making a few dollars a day on cash transactions?