As many of you might know, we had the opportunity to spend Christmas with our son and daughter in law down in North Bend. While we were there, we went to the Snoqualmie Train Museum.
Inside the unheated portion of the train depot was this strange looking machine. After reading the instructions, I could not resist trying it.
You needed to insert two quarters (the cost of doing this) along with one penny. It states very emphatically that it is not illegal to do this to the penny. It also states that it is only illegal if it is done fraudulently. I confess I'm not sure what the difference would be except you are paying to do it in the machine, whereas normally, one might put it on a train track to have it run over by the train an achieve the same effect but without the design on it.
Once you select the design you want (there are four to choose from) then you push the quarters and the penny into the machine like you would push quarters into the laundromat washers. Then you turn the crank. As you do, you feel a bit of resistance and then suddenly, it's gone. The penny, now elongated with your chosen pattern falls into a dispensing cup below.
I made two of them; one for my husband pictured above and one for myself, pictured below.
Now granted, I spent a dollar total to squish a couple of pennies, but I have a nice reminder of our time with our son.
This was a nice and quirky way to add to my stack.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed what to do with a penny when visiting Snoqualmie Train Museum.
Have a nice day!