The headline should have read, “Woman saves enough copper to replumb house”. Holy mackerel, 55,000 pennies? Did she hire a moving company to help take them to the bank?

Vicki Armstrong has been saving her pennies for almost 19 years and she was making plans this week to cash them in at a bank — all 55,000 of them.

She knows the $550 won’t make her rich, but says the symbolism reinforced frugal spending habits. “It helped me be a little bit more conservative in my lifestyle,” said Armstrong, who is planning to retire at the end of the year from Christus Schumpert Highland Hospital, where she works as a maternity technician.

What’s going to happen to the economy when all those pennies get back into circulation? Mayhem I tell you, mayhem!

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