Usually we try to sweep the loonies to the coasts. Must have missed those.
Be happy to send you a couple hundred or so if you feel you have a shortage up there. 
Please say you’ll take them! Please! Please! 
What is a loonie? :lol:
Steve Featherkile said:Errr...I think it has something to do with being Swiss? ;)
What is a loonie? :lol:
Richard Smith said:That too, but in TGWN it is a one dollar coin, haven't had one or two dollar bills for some time. The two dollar coin is called a toonie. Which gives us lonnie toonies in our pockets. And you smart guys can figure out the rest, sometime between now and Nov 5th 2008. We'll wait until next week. ;) :DSteve Featherkile said:Errr...I think it has something to do with being Swiss? ;)
What is a loonie? :lol:
Huh!! I always thought Loonie Tunes was a comic book. Good ol’ Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd.
For the rest of us south of the border, a loonie:
(http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070601/070601_loonie_hmed_12p.hmedium.jpg)
And a toonie:
(http://janroncommunications.com/images/pr-images/2006-10thanniversary.jpg)
I got a Toonie in my change a few weeks ago as a quarter. I’ll take that deal any day!
For some reason dollar coins have just not been popular here in the US. Perhaps because the mint thinks if it’s worth $.50 or more that it has to be heavy. The Sara B. Anthony’s went out of favor quickly, and the only place I ever got the Indian Dollars (can’t remember ho to spell the name) was from in change from the postage machine at the post office.
So far it looks like we, up here in Canada have accepted them. What else can you do, when the government just gives you one option…
If the US realy wanted to get rid of any paper money; all they have to do is just stop printing, and start minting coins…
I do find, when down in the US of A, that I seem to end up with an endless supply of single dollar bills…I generaly use them primarily as tip money.
I wish we’d get our half dollars back. They were used extensively for many years but the vending machine companies didn’t want them.
The Susan B. Anthony dollar was about the same size as a quarter and was originally to be octagon shaped (note the border design) but the vending machine lobby messed that up too saying they had to be round to make it easy for the machines to accept them. Two round coins of different value made to the same size just didn’t work thus assuring Susy’s failure. I would love to see the dollar bill go away and be replaced with coinage. I’d be for eliminating the penny too except it’d only be an excuse to raise sales taxes in other states. Fortunately we don’t have sales tax in Oregon.
Like Fred I use dollar bills primarily for tipping in restaurants. I think the loonies and toonies are great!
All change goes in a can once a day out of my pocket and placed in the bank when the can is full. I don’t see that changing as inflation makes the dollar less valuable.