These words were inspired a few days ago while I was struggling financially and didn't have enough money to cover my transportation costs to work the following day. When I got home, I started looking around the house for the pennies I usually scatter across the house because I was scared and didn't want to skip work or ask anyone for money or a favor. As it turned out, after collecting them, I had enough money to pay for my transportation for the following day.
Being surrounded by pennies when we have other enormous sums of money is not something that everyone really wants. If you're anything like me, you probably scatter those pennies all over the house in the hopes that one day you'll need to pay for anything and the penny will cover the cost. There are days when we are short on money, and these small pennies that we scatter are later collected to cover the payment.
Using our currency as a case study, the 10 and 20 naira I was able to gather are our second and third least valuable currencies, and they can't even buy a bottle of water or do some basic things, but fortunately for me, I was able to gather a small amount of them that sum up to 100 naira, which is the exact amount that'll convey me to my work place via tricycle.
I was so fortunate to have enough, and that was how I got to work the following day. This isn't the first time such things are happening, and one way or another, it has saved the day on many occasions. Although it might seem absurd to carry several pennies to a store to purchase several items, at least you're paying for it, which is much better than those who had to beg or take items on loan.
In a nutshell, regardless of how small they might seem, we should try as much as possible to cultivate the habit of keeping all these pennies whenever we have one, because at the end of the day, when gathered together, they can amount to as much as a dollar or more, which can on the long run pay for some basic needs.