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CHICAGO — Can't find a place for all those pennies that have been piling up in a change jar? One Chicago couple used their pennies to refurbish their bedroom floor.
Ryan Lang and Emily Belden glued pennies down to their bedroom floor — 59,670 pennies to be exact. The project cost them about $1,000 including the pennies themselves. They had to buy a lot of glue, clear coat finish and a lot of trips to the bank.
"That's my favorite thing about being done with this project is you go to the bank and you say 'I need $50, in pennies,'" Belden said. "It's a project in itself."
The Beldens sanded down their floor to give it a shiny copper sheen. And some of the thousands of pennies collected to create their floor are rare. One is a 1944 WWII steel penny, and one is an 1873 Indian head penny.
