# Do you keep your change in an odd place? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231 "2001-01-22T06:28:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/1 "2001-01-22T06:28:12Z")
I keep mine in a urine jar… unused, of course 😃 A friend of mine kept hers in a percription bottle. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/2 "2001-01-22T06:30:34Z")
I have a few coins in the shower. I have coins all over the place, they stick to me, then they fall off in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/3 "2001-01-22T06:37:13Z")
Hey! You reminded me, **Snooooopy** , we once found a quarter in the dishwasher. Umm, how do coins stick to you? Are you magnetic? Or just sticky? Seems like an intresting perdicament… ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/4 "2001-01-22T06:40:46Z")
In my briefcase. Sicne I’ve gotten it, everything has become very organized. ---
**Author:** ![They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/They_Call_Me_Sneeze)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/5 "2001-01-22T07:03:06Z")
i keep mah change in a plastic fish. when i fish (ha. ha.) for quarters, they go into a coonskin cap. ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/6 "2001-01-22T07:38:08Z")
Actually, I keep mine in a Chupa Chup can. You know those lollipops, Chupa Chups? Well, at the local comic shop they sold them in a mock cola can. It’s about three times bigger than a normal cola can, and the whole thing is made up to look like Classic Coca-Cola. I thought it looked cool enough to make an offer to buy the whole thing. Sure enough, they sold it to me. For my first six monthes of owning it it was a repository for beer bottle caps. Eventually it ended up being a repository for all my spare change. Yup, I love that Chupa Chup can. As an aside, I think the reason I tend to inhabit this board is that I get the opportunity to explain things that would completely bore the average person. Where else would I get to explain the history of my change can? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/7 "2001-01-22T08:34:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by relic\_11 \* > \*\*Hey! You reminded me, **Snooooopy** , we once found a quarter in the dishwasher. > > Umm, how do coins stick to you? Are you magnetic? Or just sticky? Seems like an intresting perdicament… \*\* There’s change all over the floor, and I like to sit around not wearing anything. I can accidentally carry enough change for a newspaper and a pack of gum on my butt as I head into the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/8 "2001-01-22T09:17:26Z")
**Snooooopy** , that’s too funny. I lived with a guy that would routinely fall asleep in his clothes, so change would stick to him. When I’d go shower the next day I’d find spare change in the shower all the time! He once also had ketchup and jelly packets stuck all over him, but that’s another story for another time. And while I don’t keep my change there, my gynecologist told me once after having a biopsy done “Don’t put anything in there for a while.” I kept thinking “What would I keep ‘in there’, my spare change??” ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/9 "2001-01-22T14:59:19Z")
At home: - Silver-plated deep **scallop shell** I found for 75¢ in a thrift store. In the car: - **M&M Mini tubes** (the long cylinder with the flip top) are just the right size to keep the b\*ttload of quarters I need for the toll roads in the area. - ditto with **film canisters** The advantages to these is I can keep them handy in plain sight (looks like a roll of candy or film in the center console) and the coins don’t fall all over the place or get stuck in the ashtray. ---
**Author:** ![barton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@barton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/10 "2001-01-22T18:54:00Z")
Currently, an heavy .30 cal ammunition box, army surplus. Also, a Mardi Gras cup from the ‘Zulu Social & Pleasure Club’, which, among various interesting voodoo imagery, has the slogan 'Moving Forward in the ‘80’s’. (Acquired around 1983). ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/11 "2001-01-22T21:27:47Z")
When I was a boy, I used to keep my coins in the cage that my mice lived in so nobody would steal from me (other family members thought mice were icky so I was pretty sure that my nickles, dimes & the occasional quarter would be safe in there. Then one day, I had amassed anough change to be able to turn it into _a whole dollar_! Unfortunately it was not until the next day when I discovered the mice’s propensity to chew into shreds anything made of paper. _sigh_ My first bankruptcy. **Moral: Never put your money where your mouse is.** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/12 "2001-01-22T22:16:29Z")
Quarters go into the purple cloth Crown Royale bag. For laundry. All other change goes into the kitchen change dish. Metro parking guy gets those coins. ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/13 "2001-01-22T22:32:06Z")
I keep pennies in a clear bottle shaped like a bear, that used to hold juice. At work, change is in a rinsed out salad-dressing side cup from the cafeteria. When I have just gotten change I will dump it all in the sidepocket of my car door before I get in. I only use it for meters, and exact change at tollboths and driveup windows. ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/14 "2001-01-23T04:39:45Z")
General change in an old jar. Quaters for laundry in an old perscription bottle. ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/15 "2001-01-23T04:47:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lunatic13 \* > \*\*General change in an old jar. > Quaters for laundry in an old perscription bottle. \*\* Oh damn. That’s “quarters.” And “prescription,” too, while I’m at it. I normally wouldn’t bother with a spelling correction, except that “quaters” sounds like some unspeakable part of the anatomy. I assure you I don’t keep my spare changes in my quaters. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/16 "2001-01-23T06:48:32Z")
At home I keep it in this conveniently divided relish plate I inherited from my grandmother. The quarters go on one side, everything else on the other. In my car single bills folded together in twos go into the ashtray for my bridge toll every morning and loose change goes into the pocket of my door. ---
**Author:** ![hightechburrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@hightechburrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hightechburrito)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/17 "2001-01-23T06:51:16Z")
I keep all my coins in a one liter glass pitcher that I . . . aquired . . . from Denny’s. ---
**Author:** ![Tsugumo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@Tsugumo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tsugumo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/18 "2001-01-23T07:32:11Z")
My change just goes on my floor…I once wanted to order a pizza and scrounged up enough from searching the floor to get one, heh. If I carry money over around $30 (in the rare events when that happens) I divide the bills up and put them in my socks, with just like $10 or so in my wallet. That way if I’m ever mugged, I’ll still have money. And if they tell me to pull off my sock, then I’ll still have the other sock. And if they tell me to pull off the other sock, well…hmm, running out of spots I’d want to pull money back out of to give to someone, heh. I haven’t been mugged yet, but hey, you never know. I’m paranoid and insane that way. - Tsugumo ---
**Author:** ![Lazarus7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/19 "2001-01-23T10:55:34Z")
This reminded me of something … has anyone here seen the internet video for “ass pennies”? I won’t explain, as anyone who has seen it, should remember instantly!! If you have, can you point me to a URL??? I lost my link to it … enjoyed watching it once in a while to amuse myself. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231/20 "2001-01-23T14:56:25Z")
I keep quarters in the charge purse I have attached to my keyring. Once a week, I check for state quarters and use the rest for laundry. Pennies, nickels and dimes are thrown in the bottom of my purse. I can fish for them at the end of a bad week. I once paid for a big cup of coffee at the local 7-eleven with nickels and dimes, and the guy behind the counter said “You don’t have to pay for this today.” Nice to know I can get credit at a 7-eleven. The pennies go into a plastic yellow smiley face bank (I don’t know if the person who invented it did time for it). At the end of a VERY bad week, I take them to the local Coin Star bank at ShopRite so I can at least get some food. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-change-in-an-odd-place/51231.md?page=2)