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"To deal with the unexpected in life, you have to be able to turn on a dime and make change."

Saw this somewhere and thought it was really worth repeating!

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Good advice. But, it seems that good advice is usually easier to give than to follow (that's not advice, just an observation).

P.S. Can anyone make change for a dime?

Dimes make great screwdrivers when you're too lazy to go find the tool box. I've turned things with a dime. Does that count?

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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

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"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond

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"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up." -Jesse Jackson

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What IS a "dime" anyway. Heard the word often enough, such as in "dime a dozen" (picked that up from a Peanuts book) which I gather is the equivalent of our "ten a penny", so it's obviously a monetary unit?

GG

"dime" = 10 cents or 1/10th of USA dollar.
It is the smallest USA coin (in size, but not in value)

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Dimes make great screwdrivers when you're too lazy to go find the tool box.

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I haven’t found a good coin tool for Phillip head screws. Based on the name, one would think that a quarter would be ideal, but not to be. But, I have found that dimes work just as well, if not better, on metric screws.

GG, I keep forgetting this forum is multibased!!
Jabber, very clear discription!

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I keep forgetting this forum is multibased!!

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Versus multi-biased.

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Jabber, very clear discription!

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Since you’re on a roll, how about a description of a silver dollar, 50-cent piece, two bits, and a Susan B. Anthony. Don’t know what they call the current dollar coin, and not sure the two-dollar bill is still in circulation (I don’t think it was politically correct).

Sorry Gardengnome, I wasn't thinking.

I don't know about the Phillips head screws either, but pennies can be used to check the tread on a tire (if the top of Lincoln's head shows, it's time for new tires) and they can also be used in old fuse boxes to keep the connection going (I'm not sure exactly how, but my grandfather knew). Quarters are good for scraping excess paint off of windows. Now I need to think of a good use for nickels (5 cent pieces).

Butter knives make decent screwdrivers, too.

Both the $2 bill and golden dollar are still being made, but you don't see many in circulation.

They are still minting the golden dollar, but the last time they were stamped for general circulation was 2001. Since then, they have only been for collectors by ordering directly from the US Mint.

The current series of $2 bill is 2003. You can order uncut sheets of 32 bills from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

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and they can also be used in old fuse boxes to keep the connection going

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That was a very dangerous practice and burned many houses down!

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Now I need to think of a good use for nickels (5 cent pieces).

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Nickelodeons?

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golden dollar

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“Golden” versus “gold”. Good marketing. Never heard of a silveren coin.

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The current series of $2 bill is 2003. You can order uncut sheets of 32 bills from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

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Can you imagine trying to pay a restaurant using a sheet of $2 bills? How would you give them $10? Clip them out like coupons? If the charge was $60, would you give them the entire sheet, and what would they give you in return? A $4 bill? I guess a $1 tip would be clipping a bill in half.

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and they can also be used in old fuse boxes to keep the connection going

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The electric chair home starter kit.

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The electric chair home starter kit.

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Maybe that's why they changed from the old type of fuse boxes to the ones with switches. They were probably afraid we'd accomplish something like that.

You're right about metric screws. Since I like to work on a 1960s American car, all my tools are SAE and when I need to fix something on the Geo it's hard to find a tool that fits without getting creative. That's usually when dimes come in handy.

Wallet for the uncut $2 sheets.

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and they can also be used in old fuse boxes to keep the connection going

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... and a .22 caliber bullet is just the right size to replace a clip-in fuse, but I wouldn't advise that either.

Interesting bits of knowledge you have Puppy! First the purse...now the bullet! What WILL be next? (kidding)

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... and a .22 caliber bullet is just the right size to replace a clip-in fuse, but I wouldn't advise that either.

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That would be the firing squad home starter kit. Still looking for hanging, lethal injection, and guillotine method for home use. There’s also the much slower method of listening to rap music, but Amnesty Internation would probably consider that a war crime.