Thursday, December 27, 2007

Loose Change

Man Saves Loose Change, Buys New '08 Pickup Truck
I can hear mom screaming at me from heaven ...




“Accompanied by a police escort from the Clinton County Sheriff's Office, Friday he drove his old diesel pickup into the Raisor parking lot and bought himself a brand new, 2008 half-ton, shiny red Dodge Ram truck.

What made the $26,670 purchase even more interesting was the manner in which he paid for it.

Brant's payment was made up entirely of quarters and gold dollars he'd been saving since 1994 - the last time he traded enough of his hard-earned coins to buy a vehicle. [story]

12/27/2007 10:52:00 AM 5 Comments

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Rodger the Real King of France said...

What's this gold dollars" thing?

12/27/07, 10:54 AM
AnnoyedOne said...

Silver dollars I've heard of. Australia has a gold colored dollar coin but I'm betting he didn't have any of those ;-)

12/27/07, 10:59 AM
Anonymous said...

If he'd put that cash in an interest-bearing account he'd have bought the truck a lot sooner.

Or he could afford to put gas in it.

His choice.

--LGD

12/27/07, 12:14 PM
Anonymous said...

Rodger,

Check out Fox News article about the Gold Colored dollars.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318485,00.html

12/27/07, 12:15 PM
Anonymous said...

In order for me to accumulate almost $27,000.00 in change in a 13 year period, I would have had to spend somewhere around $675,000.00.....???? What kind of income and lifestyle does this (phoney) guy have? Sounds like a put up job to me.

12/28/07, 9:49 AM

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