I have a 3 foot tall plastic pepsi bottle for my silver change and a 5 gallon jug for my copper change. The pepsi bottle is half full, the jug is barely 1/10 full.
I have a coin pouch. So one pocket gets my wallet and the other gets the change sucker. When I purchase something, both come out and get used. Ten cents or less in change goes into the donation jar at the store–so when possible I try to get as close as I can to the total.
And just to reiterate, coin pouches for guys do exist! And they do look guyish–society can now take one step forward. 
I’m with ** Cunctator **. I just use my pocket change for the most part. I do have an old wasabi peas tin in my car that I throw spare pennies into. I figure I’ll give it to one of my cousins’ small children as a gift- it’s probably worth about 50 cents by now, and for a 4 year old, it’ll seem like a lot more money than it is.
I’ve got one of those 2ft. Coke bottle things that is half full of silver coins, and a few small containers full of pennies. My change is almost always saved, except for some quarters to use in Bar pool halls.
For years I’ve been dumping my change into a big empty polar water bottle. It is over half full. I am really curious how much is in it.
I don’t save my change. I spend it. Best solution: the merchants keep it and you don’t have to do anything.
Whenever you pay cash, reach into your pocket. If you have the change to cover it, give it to them.
My husband and I both dump change in our car ashtrays while out, and we also have a change jar in the kitchen cabinet at home. He empties his pockets every night, and when it gets full, I take it (along with whatever’s in my car ashtray) to the bank coin machine. We can also use it for no fee. With the full change jar and a full ashtray, I usually get about $40-45, depending on how much of it is quarters and how much of it is pennies.
A three-foot tall red plastic crayon. It’s about half full.
I never spend the change in my pocket. I always break out a new bill. At the end of the day, if I have any change the quarters and nickels go into a large glass vase, the dimes into a wine bottle and the pennies into a couple of miscellaneous repositories (or I give them to my kids).
We will “cash out” $50-75 from the quarters and nickels a couple of times a year when we go visit relatives in Nevada/Arizona and my wife will use it for gambling. The dimes we save until the bottle is full and then we cash out the whole thing and buy something frivolous. We have only filled it once (it was a little over $200) and we bought a portable DVD player for those long trips to visit the aforementioned relatives.
I never, ever pay with change, I always use bills, so I collect a lot of change over the course of a month or so. I toss my loose change into a compartment in the arm rest of my car. When I get 3 or 4 hands full, I take it to the grocery store and use their change counter. That gives me bills for my change and then start all over again.
I never use change, always use folding money, and I’ve trained my fiance to do the same. We just throw it in a big tupperware container we leave on the breakfast bar, and leave it there (taking out quarters for laundry as needed) until the times we’re running a bit low on cash-on-hand. Then we head over to Coinstar (no free bank change machines around here that I know of) and cash it in. We average 50-100 bucks when we do this.
My five-year-old daughter gets all my change. I put it into a big cup on my dresser, and every few months we get down her piggy bank and put it all in there. We’ve only emptied Ms. Piggy once, and there was around $75 in there which we put into her savings account. She’ll also vacuum the living room for two quarters, and she’s allowed to spend those.
When I get home, I empty my pockets and put any change into an old bowl I have. When that gets full, I count out the coins and put them in wrappers. The filled wraps go into a box in my closet. I’m waiting until I have $1,000 (in non-pennies) or $100 (in pennies) and then I plan to take them to the bank. I’m getting pretty close.
I just moved to a new apartment. Those boxes are heavy. By the time DeVena fills that three-foot-tall crayon, I don’t think it’ll be going anywhere.
On the other hand, I’m planning to start looking for a house next summer. I would love to make a noticeable part of the down payment with change.
We have one of those 12" tall plastic containers shaped like a bear that used to hold animal crackers.
Every time we put change in it, we say we’re “feeding the bear”.