Save your loose change

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

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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....

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

surfologist wrote in post #2284983
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

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.

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.

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..

ssim wrote in post #2285327
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

condyk wrote in post #2285692
Weird ... I have 4-5 piggy banks full of ice cream

lol... nice!

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

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

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

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.