Grandmother has a saying:
“Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist die Mark nicht wert!”
(Who doesn’t value the penny isn’t worth the dollar.)
I didn’t give the phrase much thought until 7th grade, when my mother, (a waitress at the time) bought a $2000 computer for me with the spare change she saved from her tips.
Yesterday was a reiteration of the power of change (No, not the Obama kind…); My spare change bowl was filling up, so I threw the coins in my string backpack and took them to the TCF change counting machine at school.
The total was $86. Cha-ching!
The lesson? Shit adds up. Be it bad loans, lack of sleep, or quarters in a change jar…