5 Cents Makes a Million

One of my mates mentioned the "5 cents make a million" statement one day, and it got us thinking. We started collecting 5c pieces for the fun of it, and realised it would take us a VERY long time to make a million. I think we calculated that on one particular day we collected 5 coins, therefore 25c, which meant that if all days went in the same direction as that one, we would be collecting 5c pieces for 4 million days. 4 million days works out to be about 11 thousand years. For the average person, a lifespan of this is impossible.

Therefore when thinking about it, I decided to make a purpose for the collection, and hopefully turn it into something. So I have decided to extend this task to everybody. We all just about throw our 5c pieces away with the packets we get our groceries in. So why not save them for a good cause? We need to make this fun too. So I would suggest things like swapping money with car guards or petrol attendants or finding it on the floor. Ideally, we need to get videos or photos of all the fun ways in which people collect. These can be uploaded to the Facebook group, or emailed to me at clairemaher7@gmail.com