They don't really have them in Canada anymore but I think they still might in the US. It's just a little tray with "take a penny, leave a penny" on it. People will leave pennies in it if they don't want change or out of a communal obligation, people would take pennies if they don't want to break a dollar or just need a couple cents more. Shitty owners would just take it all every once in a while but most just let it stay out. It was like a communal pool of small change.
Yeah, kinda, just spread out over time. You wouldn't just swap your pennies with ones you liked better which is what op thought as a kid but nothing was really stopping you from that either.
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They don't really have them in Canada anymore but I think they still might in the US. It's just a little tray with "take a penny, leave a penny" on it. People will leave pennies in it if they don't want change or out of a communal obligation, people would take pennies if they don't want to break a dollar or just need a couple cents more. Shitty owners would just take it all every once in a while but most just let it stay out. It was like a communal pool of small change.
So, in a way, it sort of is the thing the person thought it was.
Yeah, kinda, just spread out over time. You wouldn't just swap your pennies with ones you liked better which is what op thought as a kid but nothing was really stopping you from that either.