Even if you get a cash voucher, the fee is something like 9%, not 15%.
You can also get a gift certificate for iTunes.
A half-gallon pickle jar, almost full. A candy dish, a little over-full. And some of the overflow in a disposable picnic cup. (It was handy when the candy dish hit capacity.) All told, I wouldn’t be surprised if it totals between $350 and $400 dollars.
Years ago, we paid a large part of a transmission repair from the change jar, and were mighty thankful to have it.
I cashed in most of our change last month, so there’s maybe $50 in coin around the house, max.
A valid question. I’m not sure, but it might have been sold as a promotional item…
I use a gallon wine jug. It’s about 1/4 full right now. I’ve never gotten it more than halfway full at which point it’s around $300.
I wish the US would come out with an effective dollar coin. It needs to feel enough different from a quarter that you can tell by touch. I’d like to see something like the old Italian 500 ? lire that had to different kinds of metal. A disk with a ring around it. Something that looks cool too.
We used to save quarters only in a gallon wine jug. When it was full we cashed it in and I think it was around $750.
I have several hundred dollars, mostly rolled, and mostly pennies. IIRC I have ~$400 in rolls sitting in my end table. I have a 2/3-full mason jar sitting on a bookshelf that will get rolled soon when I’m otherwise bored.
None of my rolled change is quarters-- any quarters I get are set aside for trips to the laundromat-- and little of it is change I’ve received from buying things (I’m a debit card kind of guy, and usually only have cash on weekends). Most of it is found change, a penny on the ground here, a dime there. I find about $1 a week on average. It’s been about 8 years since I last toted my change to the bank.
I was hoping someone else would post this first, but I guess I’ll be the outlier here: none.
I use a check/credit card for basically everything; on the rare occasions I use cash, the change goes to my wallet and is spent on sodas or whatever.
Don’t get me wrong - it would be neat to be able to have a slowly building reserve of cashy-cash around to dip into on a raily day, (and I love piggy-banks!) but I’d have to go out of my way to do it - going through life “normally” (for me anyway!) it just doesn’t happen.
I thought maybe others would be in the same boat since using cash is getting less and less common, but I guess not. Maybe I’m just on the cutting edge (ha!)
The Suzy was very easy to mistake for a quarter, which led to a great deal of resistance to using it. We also had two dollar bills re-introduced to circulation at about that same time.
I agree, we’re never going to have dollar coins in general circulation until we quit printing one dollar bills. My credit union doesn’t even order dollar coins unless someone asks for them. If they couldn’t get dollar bills, then they’d have to order the coins and hand them out.
Some people argue for the removal of pennies from circulation. I am very fond of squished pennies, and in fact of all elongated coins, so I’d be sorry to see pennies out of circulation for that reason, but I do acknowledge that the penny has really outlived its usefulness.
As for the OP’s question, I have no idea. My husband has a mechanical coin sorter, and occasionally he’ll sort coins. We have about two shoebox’s worth of rolled pennies, and another shoebox’s worth of other assorted coins. We tend to keep the quarters for feeding various vending machines, though. We get the Dallas Morning News delivered on a daily basis, but when I’m out, I like to buy a copy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and read it. It has different comics and features. And it costs a dollar (grumble, grumble).
Gobs. Sadly, it’s either a) mostly pennies or b) foreign currency. We just got back from a trip to Indianapolis, which means taking the toll roads around Chicago, so we lost a lot of silver that way. Plus, the husband has a friendly poker game Friday, so he’ll hoard whatever’s left. And I’ll snatch whatever I can find to fund my Diet Coke habit at work. So although we have a lot of it, it tends not to be worth much - I think the last time I cashed a big coffee can in, it was less than $100.
Actually, Snickers, you are doing it right. Money should be in a savings account, earning interest, or circulating. There’s no sense in hoarding quantities of change.
Roll those pennies and put them in the bank. They aren’t doing you any good right now. Or have your husband use them in the poker games.
It is purely because they keep printing the bills.
When the $1 coin was introduced in Canada people whined and bitched about it nonstop. But within a year there were no $1 bills - as in the USA, they had a short lifespan - and so you used $1 coins because you had no other choice. It worked. There was no need to market the coins when there were no more bills.
Maybe it’s a cultural thing. Everybody I know in the Netherlands keeps their change in their wallets; shops love it if you pay with change, and you need it for parking meters and shopping carts. I have maybe 2 bucks at most lying around in coins in my home.
This is us exactly except we have 2 jars (and only one is ugly) and each one holds just about $45.
We used to throw it in CoinStar at the grocery store, but they take a cut. I often stop at the same grocery store on the way to work for provisions for the day. I’ve taken to using coins at the self-checkout to pay for my yogurt and banana. Not when it’s crowded, and never more than $3 or so…
I eventually got another big plastic bottle to put bills in. Now when I come home from an evening out, any bills that I have placed in my shirt pocket goes into this container.
While I agree that this is not the best way to save, it is a small part of my saving plan and I intend to use all this money on something fun - or maybe I’ll use it on a rainy day. In any case, it is not a bad thing to have some emergency money.
I put my change in a empty half gallon bottle of Jack Daniels (from when it was still 86 proof!). Filled that up and was going to cash it all out for this last winter until my family put down a half gallon of Bushmills Irish Whiskey. Now I’ve got my pennies in the Bushmills and the silver in my Jack Daniels, almost all quarters. I suspect $200-$300.
$3.65 in my purse in coins - that’s it. I spend every last cent.
“Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.”
I emptied out my money box just recently and came up with $116 in change, which I put in the bank. I was going to guess that there’s about $20 in change still floating around my house, but then I remembered about my “coin collection”, which I’ve had since I was a kid and doesn’t contain any valuable coins but does have a few foreign coins and special issue coins. As the 50c and $1 coins are a special issue almost every year, there’s a bunch of those coins in there (and they’re worth face value!).
I have a policy of never changing a five dollar note. It is a sort of discipline- if you want a muffin or such and have only a five dollar note you go without. So, I normally have a wad of five dollar notes at home and they soon mount up to a few hundred dollars (that then goes onto something I probably don’t need).
So, at any given time I would normally have a few hundred dollars in change lying around.
As a point of reference, a metal “Corona” bucket (the ones which are used to serve a few beers on ice) when filled to the brim with random Canadian change will contain almost exactly $1000.