Found money...sort of

[99 pewtercoupe]

Every evening when I get home I dump all the coins out of my pockets into a small plastic crate in the bed room. Been doing this for a number of years. Finally took it to the bank this morning and dumped it in their coin counter. Just over $317! Unfortunately I ended up spending over a third of it twenty minutes later at Petsmart on cat food, litter and other cat supplies.

[wwomanC6]

Small plastic crate = Kitty Kat fund!!!

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Originally Posted by 99 pewtercoupe

Every evening when I get home I dump all the coins out of my pockets into a small plastic crate in the bed room. Been doing this for a number of years. Finally took it to the bank this morning and dumped it in their coin counter. Just over $317! Unfortunately I ended up spending over a third of it twenty minutes later at Petsmart on cat food, litter and other cat supplies.

The other ladies in your quilting club will be amazed at how much you saved.

[mrvette]

I have a very large old European/Dutch/ 5 gallon milk jug....brass/bronze/copper, must be 100 years old, decades ago, I used to toss all my change in it, every evening.....maybe 12? years ago it was damn near full, and over the years I had stopped putting pennies in there, but into a 5 gallon ceramic pot....

so the ratio of 'silver' to pennies changes over the years.....

so when count out time came it was 3500 bux manually counted.....and packaged....what a mess.....

bank had no change counter at the time...not for public use anyway, they do today.....


still have the pennies, about 3 gallons worth....


now here is the funny, the effect of 'plastic money'....after nearly a decade, the 'pot' had only 150 bux or so in it....

[VITE1]

We did that for decades. Always nice to find a couple of hundred buck in your hands. Now I have one of those automatic coin sorters my kids got me for Christmas.

[Blademaker]

Originally Posted by VITE1

We did that for decades. Always nice to find a couple of hundred buck in your hands. Now I have one of those automatic coin sorters my kids got me for Christmas.

I got one of those, too.

I ratholed coins for about 4 years and just cashed them in last fall.
Almost $1300 worth.