Did you ever play a card game like Hand and Foot or Phase 10 where you draw and discard and draw and discard...and you're trying to get certain cards? You will have noticed this rule that comes into effect. It's a branch-off from Murphy's Law:

Whatever you discard you will keep drawing

If you think you won't get enough 4's and start discarding them...that's all you'll draw. 4's.

So I've decided upon a wealth building strategy to use this principle for my own gain.

Find a penny, keep a penny

They are always strewn about the restaurant, and the other employees discard them with trivolity. A word akin to frivolity.

I'm going to start keeping those 4's.

Now don't talk to me about muckraking and such. I don't scuttle around looking for them. I've just suddenly become okay with bending over to fish them out of the cracks.


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As a footnote: this is Murphy's Law in poem form

I never had a slice of bread,
Particularly large and wide,
That did not fall upon the floor,
And always on the buttered side