{"id":76452,"date":"2024-08-12T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=76452"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:59:12","slug":"man-saves-pennies-for-45-years-and-rakes-in-a-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/man-saves-pennies-for-45-years-and-rakes-in-a-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Saves Pennies For 45 Years and Rakes In a Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Anders, every penny found was a sign from God, reminding him to be grateful. \u201cI became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny was an additional God-given incentive reminding me to always be thankful,\u201d Anders told USA Today. On days he didn\u2019t pray, he often found a penny, which he saw as a divine reminder.\n

Over 45 years, Anders collected pennies in five-gallon water jugs, guessing he had saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. Bank employees spent five hours cutting the jugs open and counting the coins. The final amount was $5,136.14, approximately $114.40 per year.\n

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Anders used the money to pay a dental bill, sponsor a family trip, and make donations to the church. He was happy to spend the money on something useful.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Anders, every penny found was a sign from God, reminding him to be grateful. \u201cI became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny was an additional God-given incentive reminding me to always be thankful,\u201d Anders told USA Today. On days he didn\u2019t pray, he often found a penny, which he saw as a …\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":76456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76458,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76452\/revisions\/76458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}