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A Penny Saved...

     Have you ever heard the phrase: "A penny saved is a penny earned"? I commonly follow this saying by finding pennies dropped on the floor or ground and picking them up. Once, when I found a penny, I gave it to a little girl from our church, Ashley. She did not want it, however, as she did not know what the use of one penny is.
     Well, just yesterday we went to Six Flags Fiesta Texas. As we were walking through the park, I noticed a penny. Cool! I grabbed it and put it in my fanny pack I was wearing. A short time later, I found another penny. Grabbed it, dropped it in the pack. Then I found another, and
another... You see where this is going? Eventually, I even found a dollar bill floating around the ground, and I did not see who dropped it. That's 100 pennies in the bank, figuratively. As Mom asked a worker for four quarters as change to the dollar bill, she found some spare change left by someone. Nobody claimed it, so my Mom did. It was a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and three pennies. That is 43 cents more change. At the end of the day, this is what we had collected.
     The grand total was: $1.58. If you ask me, that is a good amount of abandoned money to find! We spent a quarter on some fish food, but the rest is sitting in my room. Mom is going to let me spend it as I please, which means I might be getting a Java Chocolate pint ice cream from the store this Thursday...
     Haha ! Well, I thought that I would share with you the wisdom of the old saying "A penny saved is a penny earned." You never know what you might find that goes with that one penny.

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