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9 years ago

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I donated a cream can full of pennies that my brother started filling sometime before 2007. He passed away in 2015 and the can was almost full so I decided to finish filling it then donate it to Vermont Children's Hospital. Where I work has a big fund raiser for them at this time of the year. The can held 74 pounds of pennies that amounted to $147.87.

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schoolhouse_gw

9 years ago

What a great idea.

When I was clearing out my Mom's house, I found three Pringle potato chip cans of pennies on the top shelf of her bedroom closet. I had remembered that once she mentioned giving one to each grandchild as soon as they were full. One can was just inches from the top. I'm filling that one up and will present them to the kids later.

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User
9 years ago
That's a nice tribute to your brother.

What is next? Do you fill the can again?
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kittywhiskers
Original Author
9 years ago
adellabedella not sure haven't decided yet.
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morz8 - Washington Coast
9 years ago
How cool is that. Must have felt good to do, kittywhiskers!
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bengardening
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
where did he get that can? do you know? I grew up on a farm and our cans were mostly 10 gallon I think and I was trying to figure out when I started reading your post how he could have that many pennies in 8 years and then I saw the yardstick and I realized it was a smaller one. I think that was really nice of you to donate the pennies to such a worthy cause.
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kittywhiskers
Original Author
9 years ago
bengardening not sure where he got. Yea the bigger ones were milk cans and the smaller ones were for cream.
bengardening
9 years ago
we used all of them for cream. I didn't know there was a difference.
pudgeder
9 years ago
That's a lot of pennies! Good job!
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joyfulguy
9 years ago
Back in the '40s, when we milked cows and took the milk to the cheese factory ... we called those smaller ones cream cans. I don't remember their capacity, but the milk cans held ten gallons, if I remember correctly. Again, if I remember correctly, 10 gallons of water weigh about a hundred pounds, so ten gallons of milk would be slightly less.

ole joyful ... who hasn't milked in over 70 years

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