Save your loose change

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!!

steved110 wrote in post #2286157
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.

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

money..... eeeewwww.....

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!

steved110 wrote in post #2286157
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.

gjl711 wrote in post #2286400
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.

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

surfologist wrote in post #2286429
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.

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

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.

rhys wrote in post #2287217
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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?

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 !!!

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...

rhys wrote in post #2287217
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

surfologist wrote in post #2288125
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

Take pics.
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.

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.