At a thrift store...
"Would you like to make a donation?"
"No, would you like to make a donation to me?"
Woman said yeah, reached behind the counter and pulled out a free coffee mug lol
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You never know unless you ask! And as long as you’re not an asshole about it, the worst they can say is “no”.
Okay, fair. 😫
the worst you can get is a yes and then ghosted
goddamn, getting stood up fucking hurts
I was really just saying it to amuse myself and other customers in earshot, it always cracks a smile.
So I was shocked shitless when I got that stupid mug haha
I don't ask anymore because, ya know, that took the piss out of it lol
Edit, oh also, whenever I'm dealing with a self-checkout and the automated voice thanks me, I loudly proclaim "you're welcome, magic box!" That one busts people up every fucking time
If you don’t want to “round up” for the Mickey D house, you can always collect can tabs from soda and beer cans and donate those. If you have any children in your life (kids, nephews, or nieces), this is a super fun activity for them and helps teach them altruism. And for the frugal-minded, you don’t have to spend anything extra if you already buy aluminum cans.
~Go one step further for the fun, and buy a can crusher for the kids to use after taking the tabs off (bonus: it saves trash can space so you’re taking the recycling out less).~
~For you hobbyists out there, you can also buy the materials (crucible, paint bucket, ceramic insulation, propane torches, etc) and melt the cans and do metal sculpting (or pour it down ant hills).~
The casual cruelty in that last sentence after talking about altruism was a bit jarring.
You mean the pouring it down ant hills? People kill ants all the time. But the comment is not about killing ants for fun; the aluminum fills into all the ant passageways and solidifies into a really cool sculpture of sorts that you can then carefully dig out. Google it, it's quite fascinating.
Don’t collect pull tabs. This is an urban legend that won’t seem to die. I’ve seen people with buckets of these things. Useless. They’re worth less than just getting the CRV or the recycled weight of aluminum in the whole can and just donating the money. Maybe once in a while someone might offer some cash-per-tab thing as one-off event, but I could find no charity accepting them as a form of direct donation.
Don’t collect tabs, people. Just get the CRV and donate that if you want to make a donation.
But my fuck tabs!
Soda cans have a plastic lining that burns up when you melt them.
It's easily removed if you heat the can a bit, but not enough to burn the liner. Like using a hair dryer.
Since they stopped minting pennies, every thing I have bought recently that previously didn't ended with 1-4 was dropped to a 0. I hella thought they'd be rounding up to a 5 even for a 1.
Some states have laws that don't allow them to round up. Something to do with charging more for cash versus card purchases or cash versus benefits (like EBT). Some places are doing the sensible thing and rounding up/down more fairly regardless of the law, with the assumption that no one will call them on it. (A lawsuit costing more than the pennies are worth.)
Congress has had a bill just sitting around since April to make the rounding fair... But even on things everyone basically agrees with they still can't do anything.
so many stupid issues in the US due to this half-assed federal system
I agree, but any system where the primary "do something" branch just does nothing is going to have problems eventually.
In Finland we chose to not use the 1c and 2c cents when we joined EMU, and you can't buy shit with those in Finland, even though we use Euros. Probably could go to a bank and exchange a bunch, but anyways.
We do have 5c coins, that's the smallest denomination (and kinda futile tbh). Everything that cost 0.01 0.02c gets rounded down, 0.03 and 0.04 gets rounded up to 0.05 and 0.06 and 0.07 goes down to 5c and 0.08 and 0.09 goes up
except when you pay with a card. So for instance if you always made sure to make sure the gas pump stops at a 2 or a 7, when paying with cash or if its 0.08 or 0.09 you pay with card and you might save at least a few euros over a lifetime.
you can't buy shit with those in Finland
Stores would have to accept them as they're legal tender even in Finland. Maybe I'll go annoy your retailers and bring a bag of 1c and 2c pieces if I ever visit and pay some portion of the price with them.
Hell, I'm already somewhat prepared. Just you wait!
Stores would have to accept them as they're legal tender even in Finland
No, they don't, and they never have. Yeah at one point "the most common ways of paying", had to be available. Before 2001, it meant marks and debit card and some credit cards.
2007 or so forwards it mostly meant Electron as well. Now it's pretty much solely cards.
We are in the EMU, but 1c and 2c eurocoins aren't considered legal tender in that way in Finland. You will not find a single business who would accept your coins. Not in the past 25 years and especially now when stores aren't even required to take cash, much less literally all denominations of euros.
Hell, there's limits to paying with cash in most stores. Upper limits. But there's always been a lower limit. But that also meant that for a while in 2002 and so forth before the policies caught up, you could get pick and mix candy for 2c (you'd get like... one, maybe two of some light one) and then just going through the till and watching the bored of life 20-something be slightly amused and not protest.
Didn't take too long before they made a minimum 5c or something.
They're legal tender in Finland because they are legal tender in the EU. I don't know anything about Finish law but I believe permitting stores to refuse some coins while allowing others could violate some EU directive.
Finland is even forced by the EU to mint 1c and 2c coins (though the amount isn't specified so they're just collector's editions) despite not circulating them.
And Wikipedia says (without citation though):
When paying in cash in Finland, while by law a shopkeeper should accept the coins, usually they will decline, and ask for higher denominations to match the Swedish rounding, even when presented with exact change.
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"Would you like to make a donation to our corporate tax bill?"
Never give em a cent. They make enough money to donate themselves if they want the tax benefits of charity, and you can always donate directly to charity without it being laundered through some corporation that is literally only doing it because they get to claim YOUR charity on their taxes that way.
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