Fare thee well, Penny

[nanashi_o]

Apparently February 4, 2013, is the last day of the Canadian Penny.

So... it's a given the price of absolutely everything is going to go up. Nothing's gonna be $9.99 anymore, it's all gonna be more, and taxes will go up; praise the Conservative Party! [/sarcasm]

But yeah, bye Penny, nice knowing you, I guess?

Comments

[stariceling]

They keep talking about doing that down here in the US and how it takes more than a penny's worth to make one blahblahblah. I actually think it's kind of cool Canada will actually change stuff about their money, even if it's not necessarily a good idea... That's why you guys get cool stuff like the 1 and 2 dollar coins.

Okay, technically we have one dollar coins, but literally the only place you can ever get them is out of postage vending machines. And then you try to pay for something with them at the post office and they don't believe it's real money! I wish I was joking. >.< This has happened to me twice! This is why we can't have nice things!

I'm really curious how that's actually going to work, though. It would be kind of cool if everyone started doing like Japan does and tweaking prices so that they come out to a round number with tax.

[nanashi_o]

What I heard was that thousands of dollars in Canadian pennies were just literally laying around in Canada because most people didn't see the point in having pennies O_o;; even I just tossed them aside on more than one occasion ^^;

XD post offices are funny places =3 so the silver dollar thing isn't real money? Erm, I'm sorry, I know nothing about US money o.o;;

When I asked, employees told me businesses are just rounding up to the nearest dollar (they say sometimes they round down, but I don't believe that. Money is money after all, yep?). And so far, only Macdonald's isn't following through with the no more pennies thing o.o;; eh, it's a little weird, but they do what they gotta.

[stariceling]

Oh yeah, silver dollars and half-dollars are real moneys, but I'm not sure if they even make them any more. I don't think I've seen either outside of a coin collection.

Wait, not even rounding up to the nearest 5 or 10 cents but the full dollar? Jerks! :P *sulkface* That's not a good deal! I think when we visited Spain (this was over ten years ago, though) businesses didn't care about exact pesos (the one-cent ones) and would round the prices down because they were too much trouble. They were funny, cute-looking little coins, too.