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My pursuit in spending 100-dollar coins ended a couple of days ago. It showed me that I am boring and spend cash in only about a dozen different places, most of which are located no more than five miles from my house.  I consider myself frugal, and yet I still spend money on frivolous bullshit.

Last weekend, I spent five coins for a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin breakfast. About twelve hours later, I gave eight coins to a co-worker so he could buy me a Jack-in-the-Box meal.

I later bought some more microwaveable dinners at Green Frog with another eight coins. For the grand finale, I was off of work two days ago. I bought a scrub shirt with twelve coins, a car wash at Cruz Thru with five coins, and the remaining fourteen coins went to Albertson’s for assorted groceries. All gone.

I don’t think the US Mint has done a good enough job of publicizing these new coins. Most people that I gave them to made some type of positive comment. “Ooh, are these the new ones?” Even the cashier at Albertson’s liked them, and I gave him fourteen. Even my co-worker didn’t mind getting a handful of shiny doubloons for a Sourdough Jack combo meal.

I miss my coins. Last night, I went to the ATM and now all I got are a bunch of ratty bills.  I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I should spend the coins all summer.

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6 Responses to “The”

  1. norma Says:
    June 29th, 2007 at 9:55

    Do you own Green Frog stock? You sure spend a lot of money there! LOL Actually, I’m kidding. I’m the same way with Al’s Mini Mart in Porterville. I stop there at least three to four times a week for a tall can of Tecate and a “treat” for the kids. They get so happy when I tell them we’re going to the “red store” (it’s painted red)

  2. Bake Town Says:
    June 29th, 2007 at 10:37

    Sonicrusk I think we must work near by each other. I go to Green Frog a lot too.

  3. Sonicrusk Says:
    June 30th, 2007 at 5:34

    Quite possibly so BT.

  4. bernie kosar Says:
    July 1st, 2007 at 7:12

    Are you awake?…I don’t want to call (this isn’t the Grand Hyatt here)

  5. Hoat Says:
    July 3rd, 2007 at 17:12

    Nice blog idea. I enjoyed reading the string.

  6. bernie kosar Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 9:49

    FUCK! Art Bell retired, again.

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