San Antonio, TX

1. Use for leverage to pry off the lid from a difficult “line-up-the-arrows” childproof medication bottle

2. Tape one to the tail of your kite for a little more stabilizing weight.

3. Teach your toddler to count with them.

4. Teach your little bit older child a little culture and history by looking in the dictionary to find that the American coin is only called a “penny” in slang, and that its proper name is “cent.”

5. Collect in your change jar and cash in when full.

6. Scratch off lottery tickets

7. Make sculptures like penny towers

8. For good luck, place one over every doorway when you move into a home.

9. Fill a sock with pennies for self defense.

10. Play penny poker.

11. Use to open the battery compartment of a remote control.

12. Find one heads up to have good luck.

13. Increase the pH of soil for hydrangeas.

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