Kind of a weird question, what can you buy / do with a single cent? (1/100 of a U.S Dollar)Thanks!?

Question

The title says it all.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Put it on railroad track to smash and stretch it.

Learn magic tricks and slight of hand coin maneuvers.

Glue it to the forehead as a price tag.

Drill a hole in it and make jewelry.

Spin it like a top when bored.

Make trace impressions in a piece of paper.

Press it into the skin, playdough, etc. to make impressions.

Practice firing it with a slingshot.

Need I go on?

Answer 2

Possibly a piece of bubble gum or a very small tootsie roll. I seen an episode of unwrapped where this couple still run a penny candy store and all the candy is 1 cent a piece.

Answer 3

Nothing but if you collect them you can evenutally go to the store and ask them if you can exchance the pennies for dollars.

Answer 4

That's a bit stingy.

Even the poor widow gave two mites!

Answer 5

Save them til you get lots and lots.

Then buy a car.

Answer 6

nothing

Answer 7

There isnt much copper in pennies anymore. They are worth no more than 1 cent at any time, even after being melted and scrapped. Sorry.

Answer 8

not much anymore,lol only thing I can think of at this time is the little tootsie rolls are still a penny in  my area,lol

Answer 9

In the Midwest, you can go to a Meijer store and ride the pony.

Answer 10

Nothing.  The one cent gum ball I used to get out of a gum ball machine as a kid is now 25 cents.  To mail a letter with 1st class postage was 5 cents when I was a kid and is now 42 cents.  I used to get a Coke out of a machine for 10 cents when I was a kid and now it is $1.00.  When I was in high school, I could fill up the gas tank on my dad's truck for 35 cents/gallon.  We pay over 65 cents/gallon just for federal, state and local sales taxes now.  If you wanted to buy stuff for just a penny, you would have to have been born a long time ago.

Answer 11

Melt it; the metal used to make a cent is more valuable than a cent :)

Maybe trade it with some little kid, that has not yet reached the age of reason, against a more valuable coin :). Or  against something, which you then trade against something else etc... you've prolly heard of the story of the man that, starting with a pencil, ended up getting a car?

you could illegally board a boat going to the Central African Republic, where you can trade it for 46.5 CFA Francs., and buy some grain with that money... Don't even bother trading it back into $ though, cos no one will take it.

BUT is any of this really worthwhile??

Answer 12

I don't think that theres anything thats a cent

Answer 13

At (i think) the TA in Iowa, you can roll a penny into another print, it squishes it out to another image, or

in Kimball, SD you can buy one tootsie roll at the Ponderosa cafe, or, if you have an aversion to traveling for a minor sweet tooth, you could save it.

lol