Have you ever discarded money as trash?

Once while I was driving.  I smoked at the time and was holding $16.00 in one hand, while lighting the match with the other hand.  I threw the money out the window instead of the match: was able to recover all but a $1.00, as best I can recall now in my old age. 

Not on purpose, I lived with a guy for a few years that just threw out any coins under a quarter. That drive  me nutz. I should have known it would never work out the first time I saw him throw out a dime while I was over in corner collecting my pennies. 

People Do throw money away without knowing it via credit/debit cards, internet purchases, scams, and deceit. Those are some of the worst ways.  You find out later what has become of your 1,000 dollars.

And, with the economy in the catastrophic roller-coaster it is right now and  the way the Dollar has been treated in the recent past does leave little to feel the value.

The coin.  Being a bartender, years ago, I started putting all the change on the bar in a huge glass jug.  Kind of like the plastic ones at the water cooler. I filled it in about a year or two. 
Don and I were ready to move out of our house and we needed "every dime we had saved." It took the both of us to dump it over.
When we did, it was well over $400.  
Throwing money away is a terrible thing.  Throwing your extra change into a tip or pennies, nickles and dimes in one of those little containers at the checkout stand DOES help others.
Whatever the way, the only way it doesn't help anything or anyone is burning it.
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
However, 
"Find a penny pick it up.  All the day, you'll have good luck!"
All money, in whatever fashion, helps someone, somewhere.

I have accidentally thrown money away and realized it "after the fact."  I have cringed knowing I did.
To balance that, I have FOUND money in pockets when doing the laundry!


This post was edited by Merlin at August 6, 2020 9:10 PM MDT

Hmm. I've bought things before that didn't work at thrift stores, or things I couldn't return, maybe even misplaced a gift card. I've never deliberately thrown out money, but I think it's happened once or twice by accident.

 

  I hardly ever save receipts after I leave a business establishment where I have just completed a transaction.   I was at a gas station years ago, and just as I did all the time, as I finished pumping the gas, I threw the receipt into their trash can, hopped in the car and drove off. It was a Sunday afternoon, a lazy day relaxing at home  Hours after leaving the gas station, I was emptying the pockets of my trousers, expecting one of the items to be the $5 bill that I had received in change from paying for the gas. Instead, I found a receipt, the very same receipt that I thought I had thrown away. After going through the car itself just to be sure, I finally surmised that I had mistakenly put the receipt in my trouser pocket and thrown the bill away. So much time had passed that either the trash can had already been emptied as the money was on the way to the landfill, someone had found the money and rejoiced, or some other fate.
  I chalked it up as a loss due to my own carelessness.

  Oh, well.

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No way - I will still pick up a penny if I see one on the ground even though pennies are no longer leagal tender in Canada.  Cheers!