Curious, you open it and find a dining room table tiny enough to fit in a dollhouse. A week later you check your mailbox and find a small package. You’ve been seeing tables at $1,500 and higher, and this one is a cool $395. You see an ad come across your web feed for a beautiful dining room table, just like what you’ve been wanting. A dollar’s only worth about a quarter these days anyway.”Īn up-and-coming internet scam involves bait-and-switch furniture. I was just a kid, but I remember distinctly the coin being almost exactly the size of a quarter. It only stuck around for a couple of years. Most jukeboxes use cards, and you can’t even find a payphone anymore, so what’s the use? We will no longer accept or disburse any loose coins at any of our branch locations,” the message said.Īs people convert more and more to credit cards, debit cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo and other cashless ways to make a transaction, it looks more and more like coins will be relegated to the world of collectors, couch cushions and pockets of pants you haven’t worn in four years. 20, White Sands FCU “will transition to a coinless institution. I received an email from White Sands Federal Credit Union, one of the financial institutions where I have an account. We know it’s shrinking, but we’re now getting signals anything less than a dollar doesn’t have any value at all.
