It’s our tzedaka (charity) jar. When there’s enough to make a reasonably decent donation, we pick a charity and send it off.
My dad has a small coin jar that we refer to as my college fund. The deal is, when my finances are tight I’m allowed to raid it - I usually get about $30, enough to keep me in gas until payday.
Nice! Now this is an answer with some pizazz.
We also throw occasional one dollar bills in the jar as well (the dollars come from the gas money for the vehicles–anything left over from say $60 is put into the jar). Once a year we empty it and take it to the credit union which counts for free. This money pays for our annual Halloween party–we usually have $400-500 each year out of this jar. For us it is a nice way to pay for the party without really hitting our pocketbook.
We had a fairly good sized applesauce plastic/Jar that once a year collected ~@125.00 worth of coins and as a young almost/early married couple, we would chip in $35 a piece & that would be our Atlantic City gambling & gas Money for a day trip & when it was gone it was gone. We did that 5 years in a row.
These days we have a novelty bank (like this only for the Redskins don’t want to link to a manufacturer) and we are only 40% there close to year 3 - I think we use less change these days than we did in the past -more electronic & online buying & as we are older & richer less careful with our change. When we fill this I don’t know what we will do - It might pay a weekend at the beach - but I bet we won’t remember it as fondly as those early AC trips
That is like what I am filling, only mine is for the Steelers. I am probably 80% full, maybe a little more.
I have both a coin purse & a piggy bank (copper plated).
Local coinstars don’t offer Amazon slips, or I’d get them.
I must admit to being somewhat bemused by this: I can understand change jars for charity in shops and pubs, but at home?! I usually pay by card / PIN anyway so I don’t gather much change, but I’ve normally a modicum of change in my pocket and it doesn’t stay more than a modicum. If I’m paying for something small and I’ve got the exact amount in change, I’ll use it. And even before cards, I never kept much change.
My husband and I use a small electric coin sorter these days. I believe it cost under twenty bucks. It sorts coins into rolls, and when the paper roll is full, the coins start sliding off the top. It might be a coin or two off, but we don’t worry about it. When we get a jarfull of coins rolled, they go into our savings account. We generally don’t do anything special with the money.
To my fellow Canadians out there: a galvanized metal Corona bucket filled level with random Canadian change (including loonies and twoonies) is almost exactly $1000.
But that’s only worth a couple million American dollars.
I changed out close to $200 once. Just saved me a trip to the ATM for awhile.
I usually have enough change in my pockets to buy an SUV in cash (stock with no chrome package). I put it in a giant jar in my office and cash it in at CoinStar whenever I need to make a special purchase like a present for my wife.
I’m getting tired of wrapping so I might try one of the machines but I probably have a couple a hundred in change. I throw it into the charity pot. It takes some of the pain out of giving it away.
There’s two banks here in the DC area that have change counters even for non-customers. One of them, Commerce Bank, is open seven days a week. I see no need to switch my custom to one of those banks, but every couple of months, I get about $70 from cleaning out my piggy bank. I usually buy golf related stuff - a round at a nicer course, or some Titleist Pro V1 balls as a treat, something like that.
Similar them- I never break a five dollar note, and save all my $2 coins. When I get $100 of each I take it in and deposit it in a special account. I normally end up with about $2,000 a year which I then waste on computers or a holiday. It is also handy if I want something extravagant like a day at the races- I will raid it for a few hundred dollars.
It goes toward travel or to charity, depending on time of year.
ETA: Oh–and we throw it in an empty cardboard Scotch canister with a slot cut in the lid.
I have spare change out the wazoo - where should I go (in Australia) to get it all changed?
If it’s coming out of your wazoo, you might consider a trip to the emergency room 
They didn’t eat lunch before they discovered the jar? :eek: