Because it is like trying to pay your mortgage off with your penny jar!

Bart, in the role of Indiana Jones, steals a penny jar (instead of a Fertility Idol) from Homer before heading to school on the bus.

The underlying notion is that each election, like those recounts of the penny jar, is more like a poll of some underlying voting population.

"I was moving apartments and I had this big penny jar, and I just remember thinking, 'I'm so broke,"' Bhardwaj said.

The twins, full from breakfast and drowsy from being awakened too early, clutched their penny jars and road maps and seemed ready to fall asleep again.

She took the penny jar from Trace and placed it beside the other one, so he could see it when he woke.

He had picked them out of the penny jar in the bedroom.

"It's like the penny jar next to the cash register," Ms. Scher said.

They make a one-way trip from us to penny jars, sock drawers, piggy banks and the spaces between couch cushions.

"How creative can I be when I'm scraping the bottom of the penny jar each month?"