Why do people get embarrassed when purchasing something with a handful of change but..?
Don't see the difference myself. What makes changing a lot of loose money not seem as embarrassing as purchasing something with it?
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My Dad enjoys the embarrassment, albeit doesn't do it intentionally, he just refuses to carry notes, and spend the coins first.
Once you realise people in this day and age find coins difficult to handle, you begin to realise you have the 'upper' hand, and it is no longer you who is embarrassed yet the person serving you.
I don't see anything wrong with it either way, I suppose if you're buying something you can have the conscious thought that you could not 'afford' to buy it any other way than scraping at the barrel. To me it is just getting rid of loose change.
it takes too long to count the change out -- embarrassed because of the line of aggrevated people standing in line behind this person.
I have a friend who's so paranoid about looking poor, or taking up too much time at the cash register, that he makes me change in his change for bills. It's kind of funny, actually.
because ur holdin up the line
They're probably think people think they've took the last of their money from their piggy bank. I agree; it's nothing to be ashamed of---money is money.
i know...
maybe cause we feel we look poor lol
Yes, it takes longer to count it looks like its the day before payday and its you've just had to break into mr piggy so you don't starve and die and you always geta bit scared that you've counted it wrong and its short
I think the answer is relatively straightforward. Buying something with a "note" is far more prestigious then buying it with a handful of unorganized change. Since most people, even ones who deny it, are worried about what complete strangers think of them and their socio economic status they wouldn't be caught dead with a handful of change at a counter.
That still doesn't answer why they would be willing to change it into paper money. I think that is for two main reasons. The first is that they can organize the change at home. There is something very unsleak and cumbersome about counting out change at a counter(often associated with old ladies). Also the exchange of change into paper currency at a bank is more private then at a grocery store counter and has a feeling of professionalism when its all rolled up nicely.
Personally I live in a city with metered parking so change is worth its weight in gold so I have a hard time understanding. :-P
I think it's because loose change has the connotation or association of having "scrounged" for it. It might feel like people would think you're tight on money but and have finally found enough to make that purchase.
One suggests necessity and thus poverty, the other suggests planning and thrift and thus implies wealth and status. Two very different signals and self images. Me? i couldnt give a chuff either way, i couldnt care less what people think of my economic status, i will even pick a penny up in the street in "polite" company; something arrogant and presumptious about being secure enough to walk past free money.
It is because they think they will be perceived as not having money or in poverty
It does not bother me either, people can steer and whisper behind me, but that the only thing they can do and I don't care a damn.
it's true our ice cream man refused my kids bag of coins once til i went to him and explained firmly money's money and until it stopped been legal currency then what was his problem. he didn't have one, well not after i had finished.
I never, ever thought people got embarrassed counting out change at the till. I certainly don't. I hate breaking into notes.
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