What do people do with coins?

[Anonymous]

This is a fair point. Right now I have been dragging it around when I need to move it but I never really thought about lifting it.

There may be a hole in my plan. I am going to try to lift it when I get home. Say a prayer.

Oh no! At the worst, I hope I've just encouraged you to move up your plans to get those golf clubs.

[Anonymous]

Teach my kids how to save $$ by collecting them and taking them coin star, trading them in for treats or depositing into savings accounts.

Every penny counts, especially to kids.

[Anonymous]

Our capital one branch has a coin counting / deposit machine. My husband keeps a large glass jar next to his dresser and throws coins in there until it's full and then puts the money back in his checking account.

I spend change and I get it. If my wallet is straining from too many pennies, I toss them in DH's change jar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our capital one branch has a coin counting / deposit machine. My husband keeps a large glass jar next to his dresser and throws coins in there until it's full and then puts the money back in his checking account.

I spend change and I get it. If my wallet is straining from too many pennies, I toss them in DH's change jar.

When the Capital One branches were Chevy Chase Bank branches, they all had free coin counters. Are they still there? We ditched Capital One in a hurry after the purchase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a troll post. I hate paying cash, I always feel like change in pennies/nickels is "lost money" that never gets reused or an opportunity to be deployed ever again. Prefer plastic ftw but sometimes you just cant win. How do ppl use coins? Do you just count change when you pay? I'm thinking of opening a TD account just so I can use the Coin Counter w/o fees. I dont like Coinstar because it charges fees, sure its a small fee but its the principal....no pun intended.

The logic is odd. You don't want to pay a fee, but you will just throw it away as lost. Hmmm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

This is me. I have a water cooler bottle in the garage and a jar in our mud room. Fill the jar, dump it in the water bottle, repeat. Right now I am about 5 years in and the water cooler bottle is about 70% full. Probably a new set of golf clubs there, I think.

Dude, how are you going to lift that thing??? Water weighs about 8 pounds a gallon, coins would probably be more, right?

This is a fair point. Right now I have been dragging it around when I need to move it but I never really thought about lifting it.

There may be a hole in my plan. I am going to try to lift it when I get home. Say a prayer.

Be careful! My SIL had the same setup and when they went to lift the jar, the bottom basically stayed on the floor, the sides cracked and the coins went everywhere, mixed with bits of glass.

[Anonymous]

When I get to three coffee cans, it goes to Coinstar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I throw ours in a canvas bag on the floor of our closet. Every couple of years we bring it to our banks. PNC across from the CVS in Dupont used to have a coin counter machine. I can't remember if there were fees. It's been a while since I made the coin run, so I don't know if it is still there.

DH uses Bank of America and just drops the bag off with the teller after authorizing them to deposit whatever the total comes to. It is usually a few hundred. That money you're throwing away could be a nice date night.

This is me. I have a water cooler bottle in the garage and a jar in our mud room. Fill the jar, dump it in the water bottle, repeat. Right now I am about 5 years in and the water cooler bottle is about 70% full. Probably a new set of golf clubs there, I think.

I had about $400 in one once. It was my spending money when I went to Africa that summer.

[Anonymous]

Husband and I have two coin jars, one for pennies and one for other change. We used to have them for when we need to pay meters.

I also run a scholastic book fair and I always end up needing more change.

[Anonymous]

We collect them at home in tupperware and when there's enough for it to be annoying, we take it to a CoinStar - get a Amazon certificate and we shop on Amazon a ton anyway, so easy peasy.

[Anonymous]

For you Coinstar users -- are you able to split the money among multiple gift certificates (for example, half to Amazon, half to iTunes) or do you have to use all the money on one thing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I, uh, spend my coins. It's almost as if they are real money.

+1. Like most normal people.

Yeah, I spend them as I go along. I don't save them up like most of the people on here. The quarters are also put in the car for tolls and I use them at garage sales. I like spending my small change and small bills and hold on to the big bills for as long as possible. Then I don't have to go to the bank as often to withdraw money. I do use credit cards, but in small mom and pop shops I like using cash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This is me. I have a water cooler bottle in the garage and a jar in our mud room. Fill the jar, dump it in the water bottle, repeat. Right now I am about 5 years in and the water cooler bottle is about 70% full. Probably a new set of golf clubs there, I think.

Dude, how are you going to lift that thing??? Water weighs about 8 pounds a gallon, coins would probably be more, right?

This is a fair point. Right now I have been dragging it around when I need to move it but I never really thought about lifting it.

There may be a hole in my plan. I am going to try to lift it when I get home. Say a prayer.

There may be a hole in your plan and a hole in your water cooler bottle!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For you Coinstar users -- are you able to split the money among multiple gift certificates (for example, half to Amazon, half to iTunes) or do you have to use all the money on one thing?

Not sure, but you could always dump coins in and stop when you have enough for the iTunes card you want. Get the iTunes card and then dump the rest in for an Amazon card.

[Anonymous]

Thinking of "tiling" my laundry room with pennies and some other assorted coins.

Coffee cans? Really? People really still buy coffee in cans these day? Seems as outdated as coinage.