Have you notice a growing line these days at the coin exchange machine in your local supermarket?

I could not help but notice a line of adults at the machine while shopping on yesterday.

This scene triggered some memories of a few year ago. I had used penny collecting as a means  of teaching my youngest daughter a keen life lesson. I wanted to teach her the discipline of patience to under gird her emotional intelligence development.

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I would give her all of my pennies.  Every few months, we would go to the coin machine and, wah lah!, her diligence and savings turn into a receipt that became $10!  She could use this money to invest in a personal item.

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Overtime she badgered me for nickels, and dimes, but I stuck to my guns, and she had to live within the limits of the power of the penny.  She does know how to pinch a penny , I just wished her college education could be measured in those terms.

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Folks are using all their imagination to make even the penny count.  Take a look and see if you agree.

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Now,

I live in a space of thankfulness, and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”
– Oprah Winfrey 

How are you leveraging your pennies to stretch all your budgets?