Requiem for Penny Arcade

On June 20, 2016June 20, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Coin-Counting Machines, Coins, Entrepreneurs, Requiem for Penny Arcade, TD Bank, Uncategorized20 Comments

Requiem for Penny Arcade

TD Bank has retired Penny Arcade. As always I took my saved coins to the TD Bank on Fulton Street who informed me that TD Bank got rid of Penny Arcade. I asked them what should I do with all my coins. They said I could wrap them and bring them back. Wrapping coins is so 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s. We are in the 21st Century and anyway there are virtually no stores that sell those coin wrapping papers at least none near me and I have no intention of running all over Brooklyn and Queens trying to find one! Ugh! I guess my saved up coins are now worthless except Quarters for the Launderette!

R.I.P. Penny Arcade.

A few hours ago I went to my corner bodega to purchase a breakfast sandwich. Apologized to the owner for paying for my purchase in coins but Alex being the kind soul that he always is accepted my coins while I told him my TD Bank coin dilemma. Seems he has the same problem. Probably more so as businesses tend to accumulate more coins than individuals. They have buckets of coins especially pennies and of course and business owners have no time to sit around wrapping coins. He switched his account back to Chase.
I will stay with TD Bank however I say to any entrepreneurs here is your niche. For most people especially those in low-income, working class and poor neighborhoods coins are how you save. It is much easier to accumulate coins than dollar bills.

You rely on those coins to save you on a rainy day! Many of us including me are just living paycheck to paycheck. How about somebody open up Coin-Counting Machine business in low-income neighborhoods where we could exchange our coins for cash!! It would be a way to earn money and put local residents to work!!

The Revenge of Penny Arcade!!

Illusion of the Oasis

On June 15, 2015 By dancingpalmtreesIn Abraham, Crumbs, Gods, Illusion of the Oasis, Isle of the Damned, Lost Souls, Nectar, Paradise, Poor, Rich, soul

The rich spit upon the poor
telling them it is nectar from the gods.
Downtrodden souls gather at the feast
waiting for crumbs that are snatched away
from their outstretched hands mid-grasp.
Turned away from the billionaire festival
we can only gaze with hungry eyes
and swollen bellies
never to know paradise
until gathered to Abraham’s bosom.

A Caring Christmas ~ Help a Hungry Neighbor

On November 30, 2013 By dancingpalmtreesIn Addicted to Dimes, Black Friday, Catherine Townsend-Lyon, Food Stamps, Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award, SNAP, Walmart1 Comment

Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award!!

I don’t participate in Black Friday or any of these buying sprees but God gave me a way to challenge this mindset and help my neighbors at the same time. This morning as I was doing my laundry I was very upset to hear that the Police had to get involved because yet another customer was nearly trampled and beaten at Walmart in New Jersey over a Flat Screen TV!! Outrageous!! Also Walmart workers barely earn a living wage while the Founders live the lives of Kings, Queens, Princes & Emperors.

Earlier this Saturday I was shopping at one of my local grocery stores. As I got on the line there was an elderly woman in front of me carefully counting out her few dollars and change trying to pay for her groceries. She did not have enough money. Right then and there I decided to pay the difference. The clerk and the woman were in shock. My contribution was only $2 bucks but hopefully I made a positive difference in this senior’s life. She was grateful. As I turned to give her some extra change, she had disappeared. My heart is filled with joy being able to help a senior citizen in need. If you follow the news you know the budget for SNAP aka Food Stamps has been cut. This means the poor, disabled and elderly are getting less food stamps and going hungry. This should not be! I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York, Brownsville/Bed-Stuy.

THIS IS MY CHALLENGE TO ALL WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS. PAY FOR AN ELDER’S OR DISABLED PERSON’S GROCERIES AT YOUR LOCAL STORE AND/OR PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO HELP HOMELESS PEOPLE & PETS! THANK YOU.

In the spirit of spreading Love, Joy and Understanding I want to Nominate a Woman who embodies Faith, Love, Caring and Compassion, Ms. Catherine Townsend-Lyon for the Sisterhood of World Bloggers Award.

Please read Catherine’s highly relevant post on the evils and greed of Black Friday. http://catherinelyonaddictedtodimes.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/black-friday-brings-out-the-evil-in-others-so-why-bother/

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