What do you do with your loose change?

[HoudiniDerek]

Feb 11, 2019 7:07:39 GMT -8 Knightly Celt said:

Feb 11, 2019 6:50:57 GMT -8 HoudiniDerek said:

I have a jar that I drop them in. A giant old whiskey bottle I have been working on for a number of years.

Sometimes I put the extra change in the boys' piggy banks.

Once full, I'll take to the bank. I'm not sure I want to count it. You free, KnightlyCelt?

No, not free, but I won't charge you as much as Coinstar!  Instead of a 10.9% fee, I'll only charge you 10.75%!  Oh, and travel, lodging, and food!  

I'm not sure I'm getting a discount. 

Fine.  I'll count it myself.

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Feb 11, 2019 11:08:58 GMT -8 HoudiniDerek said:

Feb 11, 2019 7:07:39 GMT -8 Knightly Celt said:

No, not free, but I won't charge you as much as Coinstar!  Instead of a 10.9% fee, I'll only charge you 10.75%!  Oh, and travel, lodging, and food!  

I'm not sure I'm getting a discount. 

Fine.  I'll count it myself.

I'm on vacation I'll just do it for free food and a price of a travel ticket

[onegrandgirl]

I keep a small plastic cup in the cup holder in my car.  When I get change, I put it in the cup holder.  When it has some decent amount of money in it (half-full?), it goes to the next person asking for money on the median strip (homeless, "Fill a Boot for the Fire Department", etc.).

[CollieflowersBark]

I either a) forget about it until it all falls out of my pocket coin by coin or b) get it into a big glass milk jug labeled 'The Cause'. What is The Cause? I'll know it when it comes!

[Shady]

I usually spend it. It’s handy for bus fares, leaving tips when ordering food, when you’ve got to nip to the shop for just milk and it’s silly to put such a low amount on card, collections for people at work when they’re leaving/having babies/having significant birthdays/getting married etc. Coppers and 5p coins tend to get put in a charity collection box.

[javaclub]

Put it in my jar.

[Knightly Celt]

Just rolled my dollar, as well as my half-dollar, coins. Added $45 to the earlier figure, for $200 total.

[Cazzie]

I don't have much loose change these days since I tend to do things by card. When I do have a quid-or-so spare it goes in my moneybox though. (I have one of those cute ones with a coin-stealing-panda.)

[Mandoli]

It depends for me. I have a snack mix container that I started to fill up (it's still light). It's change from any dollars that I took out of the ATM, or coins that I found on the ground somewhere. I'm even using it for the change that I get from cans/bottles.

My plan is to not spend it immediately, and take a trip somewhere using it, but it's hard when I pay for everything with plastic.

[stardust]

i tend to save it and use it on cheap vending machines, or to print things out at my local library. other than that i usually just save it and let it pile up in my wallet in case i need change for something important, cause you never know.

[🍁🇨🇦 Tai Pan 🇨🇦🍁]

I have this terrible affliction ................ I spend it.

[:~:Sarapha:~:]

I take out any coins with the years 2013 or 2015 (the years my children were born) and put them into their piggy Banks. I also save my singles that have L or E printed on them to add to the savings. The rest of the change goes into an old coffee container and the singles go into a 'splurge box' for the kids the next time we go to the dollar store.

[Søren]

I use my card for most things so rarely have loose change, but when it builds up I feed it into the self checkout machines to pay towards whatever I'm buying

[Meryl]

I save it!  I had over £200 last year saving my loose change in a huge water bottle.  I'd been saving for five years though