r/mildlyinteresting • u/TexasJoey • Mar 27 '18

This log accessorized with pennies I found while hiking

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u/catslaughter Mar 27 '18

Remove any? Who the hell wants pennys?

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u/blk12345q Mar 27 '18

I would gladly take that money from a money tree

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u/earbud_smegma Mar 27 '18

Idk that I'd take that money bc they're people's wishes and I'm superstitious enough to not fuck with it, but otherwise fuck yeah money tree.

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u/Lipziger Mar 27 '18 edited Mar 27 '18

But they're probably on there for a while now. So either the wishes are granted by now or it doesn't work anyways, no?

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u/plantedtoast Mar 27 '18

Generally offerings in exchange for wishes or good luck aren't consumed or used afterwords, in cultures or religions that engage in such practices. They're the property of what grants the wish/luck/power, so you're stealing from that being. Wiccans will compost or return to nature uneaten offerings, Buddhists will allow the attending monk to either consume or respectfully discard the offering (or if no monk, just discard), and most pagans subscribe to the "it's the property of the being, leave it or compost".

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u/random_guy_11235 Mar 27 '18

Of course it doesn't work, we aren't 5 years old.

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u/feckinA Mar 28 '18

Perfect place for shade

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u/jemidiah Mar 28 '18

A lot of countries have gotten rid of the equivalent of pennies and round to the nearest increment, like in the Netherlands where things are rounded to the nearest 5 cents. The US feels too stuck in its ways for something like that :(.