Christmas Trees & Pennies

Do you have a fake or real tree for Christmas? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says overwelmingly we use fake trees. Plus, how many pennies are still in circulation? They say over 300 billion.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous day. This
isn't a new trend, just crazy how it's changed. If
you put up a real Christmas tree this year, you're
one of few people who go to their trouble these days.
A survey by the American Christmas Tree Association pound fake
trees are now the norm, and it's not even close.
Eighty three percent of people planning to put up a

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tree this year will put up a fake one seventeen percent,
or just one in six, will buy real one. Fake
trees have been the preferred option for over a decade.
Now real ones just keep losing more and more ground. Quote.
The data confirms that artificial trees have become the standard
in American holiday decorating. They say the main reasons are cost, convenience,
and safety. We can reuse the same tree, we don't

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have to deal with pine needles everywhere, and there's a
lower chance of the tree catching fire and burning down
your house. So those are the reasons we use fake trees.
I think the reason we do is because I think
my wife puts up six or seven trees during the year,
and I would have to chop down a whole forest.
Deeper in the last penny was minted last week. But
they're not going to go away any time soon. Something

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like three hundred billion in circulation still in A writer
for The Atlantic shared this fun fact. Three hundred billion
means there's probably more pennies in our galaxy than stars. Still,
the fact is we're not making more. Could cause a
penny shortage over the holidays of banks can't kick them
out for businesses to use a bunch of grocery stores

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into the northeast tatapromo, you could trade in for a
gift card. Paid two cents for every penny you traded in,
so you can bring up to one hundred dollars worth.
So if you brought in ten thousand pennies, you get
a two hundred dollars gift card. With that in mind,
how many pennies could you trade in right now? A
new poll asked thousands of Americans how many pennies they
could come up with if they dug in their change

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jars and couch cushions. The third of us think we
could come up at least worth a bucksworth. Thirty four
percent said they'd have more than one hundred pennies floating
around thirty four percent said less than that had no idea,
couldn't even guess. In seven percent of Americans claim their
pennyless zero pennies in their life. Most of the no

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penny crowd is made up of young people who don't
use a lot of cash. In general, almost half of
folks under thirty said they have twenty pennies or less,
or just two percent of seniors said the same. Should
we keep the penny at all? Around a third of
Americans think we should just pull pennies out of circulation
and round prices up to a nickel. I disagree, I

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say round them down to a nickel? You mean they
can for another episode of Deeper in the Den with
Dangerous Daved right here,