Save your loose change

[Stefan A]

My parents always told me to spend my change and not let it sit. But I never could remember to take change with me. So I have been in a habit all of my life of just letting it collect. Well, this last pile of change has been collecting for well over 2 years. I took it to a coinstar machine yesterday to get an amazon credit (no transaction fee). I ended up with $160. Wow. That's pretty cool. It's like free money to me :). And it put a severe dent in the price of my new 430 flash I just bought! So, save your change.

Stefan

[John_B]

Stefan A,
Yes its good to save change, cause it does add up but it also can be good to photography :)

Macro Change
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and you never know you just might find an old coin

A Forgotten Coin
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[Ronald S. Jr.]

I've certainly not forgotten about the Peace Dollar. I've hundreds of silver dollars dating from early 1800's up until the present. I think they're very interesting. Gosh, if I got rid of my silver dollar collection, I'd no doubt have a 400 2.8L IS in my hands right now. Not gonna happen, though.

[surfologist]

I cash in my change about every 6 months....
Since i work and buy my lunch every day almost, all that change adds up. I get about 75 bucks every 6 months... Its a nice present to myself....

I roll all of it myself too, because the 10% the change adds is too much, 7.50 for 75 dollars. Too much for me, because i am cheap. But not cheap enought to make my lunch at 6:00 in the morning... lol :rolleyes:

[surfologist]

btw, thanks for the reminder, its about that time, my change dish is almost overflowing.... :D:D:D:D

[rhys]

When my aunty died, my dad found a little wallet full of George III coins that had not been opened since its owner did many years ago.

[ssim]

I've got 3 or 4 ice cream pails full of coins in the basement. Someday I will actually get around to rolling them. Sigh....

[JAZZ D.P.G.]

In the years where the kids were growing up and we were both developing our careers, the loose change jar was the best means of getting away.

We would dump our change in large coffee cans and roll it once in a while, and move it to another tin.

Once a year we would take that change to the bank, drop the kids off with the grandparents and take a weekend on the town. Hotel, good meals, entertainment. A very good "parent time out" break! All paid by the change.

Nothing to show for the effort of collecting, except our sanity:D

[gjl711]

I cash in my change about every 6 months....
Since i work and buy my lunch every day almost, all that change adds up. I get about 75 bucks every 6 months... Its a nice present to myself....

I roll all of it myself too, because the 10% the change adds is too much, 7.50 for 75 dollars. Too much for me, because i am cheap. But not cheap enought to make my lunch at 6:00 in the morning... lol :rolleyes:
I do the same but all my change goes in there. With my morning coffee, and lunch every day, I toss in somewhere between $1 and $2 a day. Toss in weekend spending for a couple more $$ and it usually adds up to somewhere around $15 a week.
I take it to the bank as they will count it for free using their coin machine. I use acover from a 100 pack of CDs and it's about full. Kenko tubes, here we come.:lol:

[liza]

I put my change in a pickle jar. When it's full, off to Coinstar I go! But we use ours for family outings to theme parks in the summer.

[saravrose]

I have a change jar.... I use it for purses or shoes.... or something totally silly that I want but would never buy in the first place..

[condyk]

I've got 3 or 4 ice cream pails full of coins in the basement. Someday I will actually get around to rolling them. Sigh....

Weird ... I have 4-5 piggy banks full of ice cream :confused:

[surfologist]

Weird ... I have 4-5 piggy banks full of ice cream :confused:

lol... nice!

Btw ssim, i will roll them for you. I charge 90%.

[yoyoboy]

I always roll my own, it's so satisfying, and you don't lose any cash to coinstar.

[steved110]

Ever noticed how dirty your hands get after counting up your jar of loose change? Blech....:eek:

Coinstar macnines are great. they cost 7% here wwhich is less so, but my own private free time is worth more to me than a few hours spent counting and rolling coins and taking them to the bank.

[zacker]

collected over $500.00 in a year....not once but twice, the first 5 bills bought me my wood lathe for making my drums and the second (which was actually almost 600.00) went to pay some bills! just let it pile up in a bowl and roll it once a month and put it away and dont even look at it for a year... and never, ever take change out of the house with you!!

[surfologist]

Ever noticed how dirty your hands get after counting up your jar of loose change? Blech....:eek:

Coinstar macnines are great. they cost 7% here wwhich is less so, but my own private free time is worth more to me than a few hours spent counting and rolling coins and taking them to the bank.

lol... i do it on the floor while wathing a movie.... and on top of a beach towl...

money..... eeeewwww.....:D

[zacker]

i use those little test tube looking things that hold the right amount, after filling it you just slide a wrapper down into it and turn it over and out pops the rolled coin, all you really need to do is sort out the different coins.... very easy!

[gjl711]

Coinstar macnines are great. they cost 7% here wwhich is less so, but my own private free time is worth more to me than a few hours spent counting and rolling coins and taking them to the bank.Might just ask if your local bank has a coin counter. I just bring in my jar and they pour it out into a big coin counter and it counts them all up i n a few seconds. I know my bank does it for free so it saves me somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 each time I empty my coin jar.

[surfologist]

Might just ask if your local bank has a coin counter. I just bring in my jar and they pour it out into a big coin counter and it counts them all up i n a few seconds. I know my bank does it for free so it saves me somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 each time I empty my coin jar.

If you dont mind saying, what bank do you use? Is it a chain?

The bank i use doesnt have one of those, but then the last time i asked was about a year ago, so they could have gotten it since then. I havent gone in either, i do it all online or through the drive thru.

[asolie]

Some of my change years ago ended up in a fountain. :)

[gjl711]

If you dont mind saying, what bank do you use? Is it a chain?

The bank i use doesnt have one of those, but then the last time i asked was about a year ago, so they could have gotten it since then. I havent gone in either, i do it all online or through the drive thru. Mid-America, it's not a chain, or at least a big one. But I have also brought it to Third-Fifth or Fifth-Third or something like that as well. I would figure that most banks have some coin counter. Maybe they don't all allow one to use that service though, but it's work a call at least. I know that the coin-star machines here are 10% so for be that comes up to about $20 to $25 every time I empty it.

[surfologist]

Yeah... 10% here too....

Kinda steep, but its probably how they pay the machines off. I just roll it myself.. or pay my little sister around 5% to do it.. lol

[rhys]

I count it myself. If I was doing a lot then I'd invest in a small machine that did it for me. Every penny I see onthe ground, I pick up.

Actually, I have great fun. I glued a nickel on the kerbstone outside my house and I can see passers-by trying to pick it up.

[gjl711]

...
Actually, I have great fun. I glued a nickel on the kerbstone outside my house and I can see passers-by trying to pick it up.
That's just mean... So did you take a pic of them struggling? :D

[kram]

I use my credit card for almost everything - as I hardly carry cash around. Net result was that I ended up with a grand $75 in coins after 3.5 years !!!

[thomascanty]

A couple years ago I counted out the dimes, nickels and quarters I had in a jar, and it came out to about $360. I bagged it all up and took it to Vegas to run through the video poker machines. I started with the quarters, moved on to the dimes and was just about done with the nickels when I drew a royal flush. I came home with $464... :D

[surfologist]

I count it myself. If I was doing a lot then I'd invest in a small machine that did it for me. Every penny I see onthe ground, I pick up.

Actually, I have great fun. I glued a nickel on the kerbstone outside my house and I can see passers-by trying to pick it up.

I was at a school, and they clear coated a DOLLAR bill to the floor........ now that is MEAN!!!! haha

I thihnk i will do a quarter outside my house :D:D:D

[gjl711]

I was at a school, and they clear coated a DOLLAR bill to the floor........ now that is MEAN!!!! haha

I thihnk i will do a quarter outside my house :D:D:D Take pics. :D
I also seem to remember some skit on TV called city fishing or something similar. The host attached a dollar bill to a fishing pole and as the unsuspecting individual went to puck it up, it would get snatched away at the last minute.

[rhys]

I remember seeing a 20p coin drop onto the floor and my friend Alan and I both dived for it and ended up in a slight scuffle. Just a bit of fun really - lol. I let him have the coin in the end as I didn't want to escalate the scuffle.

[Claire]

I remember saving change & smaller notes as a kid. Of course I intended to spend it as well & a new Nintendo game sounded good. So, off I went to the toy store & poured out all my money. Gosh, so many bills & coins! LOL

[Wilt]

Ever noticed how dirty your hands get after counting up your jar of loose change? Blech....:eek:

Ever notice how clean the money gets when accidentally it goes into the clothes washer? :)

Here in the States, paper currency is really high cloth rag content currency, and it washes up very nicely!

[Scottes]

When I get home from work I toss all loose change in a jug on my bureau. Currently I'm sitting on 5 quarts of loose change. I have no idea how much that is, but it ain't shabby.

I've been saving my change like this for many many years, and every once in a while I'll cash it in. For small "emergencies" or more likely for some fun money. Best take yet was $760, though I think I have more than that right now.

[surfologist]

When I get home from work I toss all loose change in a jug on my bureau. Currently I'm sitting on 5 quarts of loose change. I have no idea how much that is, but it ain't shabby.

I've been saving my change like this for many many years, and every once in a while I'll cash it in. For small "emergencies" or more likely for some fun money. Best take yet was $760, though I think I have more than that right now.

Sweet!!

How many young kids did you take lunch money from?? :D :D :D

[Scottes]

All of them. That's my "job" at "work."

:-)

[surfologist]

lol... I like you sig... referring to the 100-400... nice! :D

[Wilt]

Sweet!!

How many young kids did you take lunch money from?? :D :D :D

It is not nice to take money from kids.:( Some find it is more ethical to trip them so the money falls out from their pockets, and when some of the money is lost and cannot be found, it is not the slimey act of stealing. Then metal detectors help find the missing change. :rolleyes: ;)