Where do you keep your spare change?

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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I just found an old metal bank my Grandma had. It is made by the Durable Toy and Novelty Company. I'm going to fill it and see how much it will hold. The hubby has an old Skippy peanut butter jar and my son keeps his in a plastic bucket.

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Ruth n Jersey said:
I just found an old metal bank my Grandma had. It is made by the Durable Toy and Novelty Company. I'm going to fill it and see how much it will hold. The hubby has an old Skippy peanut butter jar and my son keeps his in a plastic bucket.

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Oh I really like that. I have 3 large plastic jars with my 3 grandchildrens names on them..As soon as they are filled they take the money and I start over again.
 
I keep mine in a plastic sandwich bag.

Every month when I go to the bank I run it through the free coin machine in the lobby and convert it back into cash.
 

Mine is all over the place. The most is in a big coffee can.....the Kirkland brand coffee.

Since I seldom pay with cash anymore, I really don’t get much new change ....should take mine and see how much I have in dollars.

Wish my bank had a free machine but I don’t think it does.....but I’m not sure.
 
In an empty plastic prescription medicine container. Tore off the label. Sometimes my wife will go thru the coins and pick out quarters that she likes and put them in "label removed" medicine bottle also. If she keeps it up, will have enough quarters to by a Jag (LOL). When the plastic container gets full, I will take them to local grocery store and run thru a Coin Machine and get cash. It's generally only about $7.
 
I've got a 2 foot high glass jug filled about 2/3 full. I can't even budge the damn thing. How do you get rid of the change? I'm not giving a grocery store coin machine 15% of approx. $600-700 worth of change ($90+). The banks around here are snooty. They don't have free change machines. Others want you to have an account with a minimum balance.
 
I have a small plastic bin for my pennies,when it gets full I roll them in the wrappers,when I have $5 or more I head to the bank
I keep my quarters in a silver container,nickels&dimes in small change purse.I use the change mostly to buy daily NYT{$3}
 
I have 2 large-ish leather boxes that I keep the spare change in.trouble is they hold so much it takes hours to count and bag up when I want to bank it.... this last lot amounted to over £400

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When my pockets become too heavy with change, I transfer overload to an empty screw-top glass jar. When that fills up, I take the contents to a Coinstar machine at a supermarket where coins may be redeemed for credit at Amazon, Starbucks, or other places...
 
Fyrefox said:
When my pockets become too heavy with change, I transfer overload to an empty screw-top glass jar. When that fills up, I take the contents to a Coinstar machine at a supermarket where coins may be redeemed for credit at Amazon, Starbucks, or other places...
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I would never take money to the supermarket machines, they charge 12% in commission..:(
 
I throw my spare change in an old ashtray at the end of the day and use it to buy my newspapers, I’m sure the shop assistants hate having to count it out but it’s too bad, I don’t want it weighing down my purse and couldn’t be bothered with it mounting up at home
 
I throw whatever ends up in my pocket (from town) into a tuna can on my dresser.
Once full, I sort the quarters out and toss them into a large beer mug
All other coins go into a fish bowl
When they are full, each ends up totaling around $60 or $70

My bank used to run it all thru their little whirly gig
Used to

It became a bit of a quandary as to what to do with the gallons of coins I used to amass
Then came the coin machines

Like previously stated…

fuzzybuddy said:
I'm not giving a grocery store coin machine 15% of approx. $600-700 worth of change ($90+).
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But, I bite the nickel, haul a couple bank bags to that trough, and slowly feed that persnickety thing
It doesn’t hurt so much when it’s losing a few bucks, and easier to tote

What does wrangle me is when the machine is out of order

Now, pop cans, beer cans, or now most any can of drink, comes with a deposit
Heh, stores here no longer take them, or even have those insipid can gobblers
So
I quit drinking soda, and my beer is mostly home brew

And when the occasional can finds its way into my truck, I hand it to those guys that hang at intersections with the ‘please help me, anything is appreciated’ signs

I do what I can
 
I put change in a Ziploc bag in kitchen drawer. When it gets heavy (usually $15-$20) I use the Coinstar machine. Charge 8% which is okay because I don't want to be bothered lugging a heavy bucket of coins or rolling them up... ugh...what a pain.
 
I use up my change as I get it. It's kind of like my own little "petty cash" fund and it stays in my coin purse part of my wallet and I dutifully count it out, to the chagrin of whoever is behind me in line, to make exact change as I can when I pay cash for things. :cool:
 
I keep most of mine in plastic sandwich bags. I have a collection of old coins from the 20th century including a penny from the 1930s. The rest I bring to coinstar to convert into paper money. Some get used at yard sales in the summertime.
 

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