Do you check your change ?

fuzzybuddy said:
What's the names of thease banks, who take change- rolled up or not? Around here, none of the banks do. You used to be able to deposit checks into your acct, even if your acct. was in another bank. There's only one bank around here that does that anymore.
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Around here it's Bancorp south and FNBC. both have taken money rolls from us. never a problem or an issue.
 

I throw my change into a dish at home and use it for my daily newspaper, the assistants hate me as it means they have to count it ! I’m sure I saw one duck under the counter when I walked in the shop the other day :LOL::LOL::LOL:
 
i hardly use cash now, but no, i wouldnt check it, i would just chuck it into my purse...🥴😕
 

Say I'm in a store and the bill is $5.00 and I pay with a Twenty. I will say to the clerk, making sure (s)he hears me "Out of Twenty." Afterwards will count the change in view of cashier, even if moved along by the next customer's transaction. I don't hold up the line; I am standing right by the next customer.
 
Sad thing is, if the register does not tell casher what change to give, they have difficulty figuring out how to count it back. I worked as a manager in a small video store years ago. Hired a guy in his 20s as a clerk. He could NOT figure out how to make change. I mean, when I was training him, a customer gave him a $5 bill, and two quarters for a rental that was $3.50. I had to help him figure out what to give the customer back.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Nope! I went completely cash free a few years ago. I was collecting vast quantities of change that I couldn't get rid of. Banks no longer took rolled up change, and they didn't have public change machines. And I wasn't going to use those supermarket change machines, which had a 15% fee. So I went completely cash less. Haven't had any problems since then.
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Now that you've gone cash-free you might as well bite the bullet and pay the Coinstar commission, better to have 88% folded up in your wallet than nothing in a big old jug behind the sofa.

I'm still able to take my change to a local credit union that has a free coin machine for depositors but I'm trying to force myself to use my change when I make a purchase so it no longer accumulates.

Good luck!
 
Just today, I realized the lady at the drug store counted out the change to my husband....I haven't seen that in a long time...

We usually don't use cash....But I gave the lady a 20 dollar bill and the bill was for 8 dollars....
 
I watch and count my change. There have been a few times when I hurriedly walked out leaving my coin change in the change machine.

I use CoinStar a couple times a year - not a problem. The current fee is 11.9%, but I believe you can get giftcards for no fee.
 
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johndoe said:
The only place I know that I was deliberately shortchanged was as a tourist in San Francisco. I gave a Chinese lady a $20 and she gave me change for a $10. When I told her of the error, she corrected it while she said something in Chinese to her co-worker. It was probably something like the dumb-ass tourist isn't so dumb after all. Locally though, I only give change a rough check when using big bills. Registers here automatically do the math for the checkout person, so there will be no subtraction error on their part anyway.
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Hard to say which is worse - your racist comments or the fact that several members 'liked' your post. Good grief.😠
 
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I use my credit card for nearly everything. But when cash is involved, I do pay attention to the bills I get back. I don't bother with the coins.
 
Definitely check my bills but probably don't check the change as carefully as I should. Your story reminds me of when we seniors went to Walmart, one of the ladies got back on the transport saying the clerk had cheated her out of correct change for $20 and she didn't realize it when she was at the register. She went back but couldn't resolve it right then. Don't know if she ever did because she would have had to find a ride back to the store, which is out of town and the seniors don't go to Walmart on a regular basis, plus we go to different ones each time. This is one example of why I like to pay with most things with a credit card.
 

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