A (presumably) sarcastic comment on Vanguard’s Facebook page about throwing away change instead of saving it has started something of a debate over on reddit. The question? Are there, in fact, people who really throw away their change rather than save it in a jar? Could this be true? Or is everyone being sarcastic and messing with us?

Clearly, people drop change on the ground rather than deal with it. A few years ago Marketplace did a story about a family that had found over $1,000 in change on the ground in just a year of looking. But do some people really just throw it in the garbage on purpose?

We can’t think about it anymore or our heads will explode. Here’s a poll.

Saving Tip [Facebook]
Wait, what? [Reddit, WTF]

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