Spare Change!

Jazzy · Post by **Jazzy** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:35 am

I have a popcorn tin that I have cut a slit in the top. Each day I place my spare change in the can. Once a year, I empty the tin and count up the money. I just got done and there was $617.03! This money I will use to buy myself something I really need or want. The best part is it's just spare change :wah:

Does anyone else do this?

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:08 am

Jazzy;1287916 wrote: I have a popcorn tin that I have cut a slit in the top. Each day I place my spare change in the can. Once a year, I empty the tin and count up the money. I just got done and there was $617.03! This money I will use to buy myself something I really need or want. The best part is it's just spare change :wah:

Does anyone else do this?

awesome Jazzy, I must do this!:guitarist

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:30 am

Yes. I have a glass jar that holds about $70 when full.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:39 am

Jazzy;1287916 wrote: I have a popcorn tin that I have cut a slit in the top. Each day I place my spare change in the can. Once a year, I empty the tin and count up the money. I just got done and there was $617.03! This money I will use to buy myself something I really need or want. The best part is it's just spare change :wah:

Does anyone else do this?

I would have donated the money to Haiti relief but thats just me. Enjoy your spa or whatever.

Poor kids.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:47 am

Yep! I have a plastic bottle that holds about $80.00. When it's full, I get a new videogame! (Hey, financing my hobby painlessly!):D

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:14 pm

Good for you Jazzy.....

I usually pay $320 every summer for beach badges for some of my company. So, when I buy the badges in June I start putting quarters into an Irish bank that I have. By June, I've usually saved about $500 in quarters:D....Just feels good, doesn't it!

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:48 pm

Nomad;1287935 wrote: I would have donated the money to Haiti relief but thats just me. Enjoy your spa or whatever.

Poor kids.

:yh_rotfl

DrLeftover · Post by **DrLeftover** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:21 pm

Jazzy's buying lunch.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:41 pm

DrLeftover;1288033 wrote: Jazzy's buying lunch.

darn right she is doc!:yh_rotfl

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:19 pm

My spare change is saved all year long, we have a special offering at church. The money goes to build churches in other countries.

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:19 pm

It's not hard for a Canadian to accumulate a tidy sum in loose change, because we have $1.00 and $2.00 mass circulation coins.

This afternoon, I tossed about $4.00 in the pot after shopping, and I just arrived home about half an hour ago from the pub, and about another $3.00 found it's way there.

I save it for bus fare, but it's nearing $50.00 at this point, so I'll probably start dipping into it for bits 'n' bobs.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:54 pm

Richard Bell;1288056 wrote: It's not hard for a Canadian to accumulate a tidy sum in loose change, because we have $1.00 and $2.00 mass circulation coins.

This afternoon, I tossed about $4.00 in the pot after shopping, and I just arrived home about half an hour ago from the pub, and about another $3.00 found it's way there.

I save it for bus fare, but it's nearing $50.00 at this point, so I'll probably start dipping into it for bits 'n' bobs.

Your right Richard, my x-husband did it for years, every year he would count out 5-$600.00.

I have to start doing this as well, as I hate the loonies and toonies in my purse as they are just to heavy.

So today, I threw in 5.00.

Even in my car I have them, as I used to buy a coffee everyday, its just to expensive now, so in they go tomorrow.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:44 am

I have a 19 year old I don't even know what spare change is. As fast as I pull it out of my pocket it is gone.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:48 am

minks;1288102 wrote: I have a 19 year old I don't even know what spare change is. As fast as I pull it out of my pocket it is gone.

then don't pull it out of your pocket!:yh_rotfl

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:51 am

I'm in the habit of rounding off the checks I write to the nearest dollar. At the end of the month I start over and any money left over in my account I don't add to the amount I recieve that month.

Once, my daughter needed a new cook stove. She was cooking on a borrowed camp stove. I checked my account and found near $1000 extra in it. She got a new stove.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:31 am

Speaking of spare change. One time around 1996, I moved into a different home. In a back closet, the previous owners had left one of those old-time, turn-it-upside-down large fire extinguishers.

I thought nothing of it for months, until I finally needed the space and tried to move it. it must have weighed 300 pounds!! Knowing that a fire extinguisher couldn't possibly weigh that much, I inspected it and to my surprise I found that the top screwed off!

Inside was close to $700 worth of pennies! I went skiing with the buried treasure!:D