This is what happens when I’m not around to spend San Geraldo’s money. It piles up in the house. Well, just the coins. He can’t be bothered with coins. He knows very well what to do with cash. A person can amass a tidy sum in spare change. Usually, San Geraldo empties his pockets and places his change atop a dresser in his office. I sort the change, placing 1- and 2-centimo pieces into a bowl in the bedroom (even I find those a bother) and adding the rest to my stash which I use. With me out of commission SG’s coins are overflowing the dresser. That’s not really them above. That’s what they remind me of. But that is them below. He needs me. At least to spend his money.
The sciatica has not been so bad since last night. I was more aware of my 19-sutured back when I got out of bed. Maybe there’s hope.
Haven’t done much today. I decided I had the right to feel a bit pathetic this morning. Would love a walk in the sunshine. But it’s hot and humid. So, later it will be. Yesterday’s walk was a record breaker: 450 meters / 1475 feet / .28 miles.
It has only been one week since my surgery. Why is patience is a virtue. Why can’t “Hurry the hell up” be a virtue?
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Esto es lo que pasa cuando no estoy para gastar el dinero de San Geraldo. Se acumula en la casa. Bueno, solo las monedas. No puede ser molestado con monedas. Sabe muy bien qué hacer con el dinero en efectivo. Una persona puede acumular una suma ordenada en cambio de repuesto. Por lo general, San Geraldo vacía sus bolsillos y coloca su cambio encima de una cómoda en su oficina. Clasifico el cambio, coloco piezas de 1 y 2 céntimos en un cuenco en el dormitorio (incluso a mí me molestan) y agrego el resto a mi escondite que uso. Conmigo fuera de servicio, las monedas de SG están desbordando el tocador. Esos no son realmente los de arriba. Eso es lo que me recuerdan. Pero eso es ellos abajo. Él me necesita. Al menos para gastar su dinero.
La ciática no ha estado tan mal desde anoche. Era más consciente de mi espalda con 19 suturas cuando me levantaba de la cama. Tal vez haya esperanza.
No he hecho mucho hoy. Decidí que tenía derecho a sentirme un poco patético esta mañana. Me encantaría dar un paseo bajo el sol. Pero hace calor y humedad. Entonces, más tarde será. La caminata de ayer batió récords: 450 metros / 1475 pies / .28 millas.
Solo ha pasado una semana desde mi operación. Por eso la paciencia es una virtud. ¿Por qué “Date prisa” no puede ser una virtud?
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I used to be the same way with change, mainly because I didn’t like it occupying valuable real estate in my pockets, and I never seemed to have useful amounts and denominations. Then I got a small leather change purse, which was not only convenient in the pocket but could be easily stocked with a few coins in each denomination. I quickly became the king of exact change. Then I started using credit cards for everything and the point became moot. Curse you, progress!
Wicked Hamster:
I keep a little leathr coin purse. Sometimes it weighs 10 pounds thanks to SG. For standard purchases now, however, I tend to use my mobile. I even direct-deposited the plumber that way. Wonderful.
I’m such an old geezer, I still roll my coins and take them to the bank for deposit.
Debra:
I used to enjoy doing that.
I have zero patience, too, but then I’m also a child when it comes to pain and I would be laying on a couch having Carlos play my beck-and-call-boy.
Bob:
SG would hover more if I let him, but he’s already doing so much I don’t want to scare him away with my whining.
My grandmother told me that “if I saved my pennies I would be able to go to London someday.” When we had the hardwood floors installed, I had to move them from the floor in my closet, they weighed so much that they bent the wagon beyond repair. I probably have 50 years worth of them.
David:
SG once rounded up our spare change as part of his gambling money on a trip from Santa Barbara to Vegas. After the fact, he told me the budget didn’t apply to the change. It was several hundred dollars. And not a good conversation.
Yeah I would say don’t knock the spare change. I’m not a big coin lover either and stick mine in a big tin that I have. One year that spare change paid for my round trip ticket to a California vacation.
Mistress Borghese:
We’ve never had that much but several hundred dollars did used to accumulate. Come to thin of it, that would have paid a little vacay.
I used to always carry my change but lately I’ve just been using my card. We still get coins sometimes and we put it in a bowl in the front hallway, and every once in a while I take it all to Oddbins and buy a bottle of wine. I also have a couple of bowls with 1p and 2p coins in them (I can’t be bothered to carry pennies, even to Oddbins) and I’m waiting to accumulate enough to roll them and take them to the bank!
Steve:
More than anything else now, I use my mobile. Change is good for tips, little bits here and there. Our 1-centimo coins aren’t even worth 1p!
“Why can’t ‘Hurry the hell up!’ be a virtue?”
Ahhhhhh you are gem, Mitchell 🙂
Judy C:
As you can imagine, I had a different word in place of “hell” but behaved myself this time.
I’ve come to a point in my life where I don’t see pennies as money anymore. If change falls out of my purse when I’m looking for something I just leave it on the ground, or floor. It would cost me more that a few coins to pay for any broken bones or concussion I might get from falling over trying to pick it up.
Deedles:
One centimo pieces are worse less than a penny. Such a waste. I’m leaving everything on the floor lately!
Steady as she goes……..
Jim:
Teetery maybe.
Glad you are feeling well enough to get out and walk a bit. Good news!
Also, thanks for forcing me to read e-mail so I hear of your progress!
Carole:
I’m glad I’m encouraging someone to do something.
AAArgh can be so refreshing to hear when it really counts! We feel your pain over here. Hot humid here as well. Came back from a 10 minute walk at our Rocky Run Bridge, some breeze but not near enough to stay there. Back home now catching up on socials.
Ron:
Oh how nice a cool rain day would be. None in sight.
I had heard of the expression, Patience is a virtue. But what is a virtue, I asked myself? So, I googled it… oh… number 3, chastity in a woman? Whoever knew! Am I a virtue?
Karen:
You’re better than patience.
Your photo of “Pot O Silver” reminded me of the crooked midway games of my youth — the mechanical arm would push a few nickels over the edge continuously to lure in the suckers, then I learned that the majority of the coins were glued down… P.T. Barnum was right, LOL!
Tundra Bunny:
Wow! I knew there were all crooked ways of doing that, but I had no idea the coins were glued down. PT Barnum was definitely right!
I love playing the “Penny Falls” if ever I happen to find myself in an old-fashioned arcade!
However, like many commenters here, I use cash less and less since the pandemic and all that “be careful what you touch, wash your hands, sanitise” business. We have three pots of various minor coinage that have been waiting for one of us to take them to the bank and run them through the coin-counter machine for several years. Apart from that, I only ever go to a cashpoint (ATM) to pay for a haircut, as the Kurdish barbers we go to seems to be one of the last bastions of “cash-only” transactions. Jx
Jon:
I find myself using my mobile for payment more and more. So convenient.
Hurry the hell up can be a virtue if whatever you want to hurry the hell up hurries the hell up. It just doesn’t happen often enough.
Kirk:
Tell em about it!
At least you won’t have worry about those coins falling off the edge of SG’s dresser. They NEVER fall!
Walt the Fourth:
Unlike the games, SG’s dressers coins give prizes. I tried stacking them (note left corner) and knocked a few to the floor, so stopped.