Bag o' pennies

Bag O' PenniesTowards the end of last summer I picked up a pair of cargo shorts from Canadian clothing retailer Roots. The shorts had a weird park ranger type theme and attached to them was this little hemp bag with nothing in it. For a long time the bag was just lying around on my desk but then one day I decided it would be great to store my ever growing stack of pennies in.

You see I think the pennies are such an enormous waste of resources: They are made of valuable metal but have absolutely no value at all. Seriously, what can you get for one penny these days? Nothing. In fact I think the metal in a penny is worth more than the coin value itself. So unless something is done, we're going to end up with the situation they had in Italy back in the early -70s where people melted down the smallest coins and sold them as metal instead.

Anyway, I had these huge teetering stacks of pennies all over the apartment and we kept knocking them over so my wife got really annoyed. The hemp bag was a perfect solution to the problem but as you can see it is now full and I need a new one.