Find a penny pick it up and you could win a thousand bucks!

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Well this is certainly one way to get people looking at money differently. Think about it how often now days do you use or even really do anything with your pennies? I pretty much throw mine in the cup holder in my car or in a jar at home and they just kind of sit there. This sounds pretty dumb in retrospect, but just the other day I caught myself throwing away a couple of pennies because I had swept them up with the dirt from the floor and didn't want to sift through it. I literally threw away money.

According to the promo video from Ally Bank out of 10 billion pennies minted each year 1/2 of them are removed from circulation because people don't value them anymore and drop them or like myself, throw them away. There is literally millions of dollars lost every year.

So in an effort to get people thinking about the value of pennies the bank decided to create their own, value them at $1000 and hid them in cities across the country. 100 pennies in 10 cities New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Miami, Denver, Detroit, San Diego, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas. Which is not only a pretty cool idea but could benefit your bank account in more ways than one.

So if you are going to be in any one of those cities you might want to check out the hints and see if you can become $1000 richer! I think that with this new knowledge I have I might have to set out on a trek to collect some forgotten pennies! Who knows, I could become $1000 richer just by picking up change?!?!

 

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