Save your change in a jar? What did you buy with it?

In My Humble Opinion
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When I delivered pizza for a couple of years right after high school I decided to save all my change in a jar. When the jar got full I took out everything but quarters and exchanged them for quarters. I did this until it was all quarters. That turned out to be a little over $1200. I took my girlfriend out for a several hundred dollar dinner and then blew the rest on stuff that I can’t remember now.

Now-a-days I save it for when I am running short on money. Usually when the time comes when I need it, usually for gas several days before pay day, it ends up being $20-$30 which is enough for gas and lunch until pay-da.

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I resorted to a jar of change close to pay day on occasion, but the last couple of jars have all been donated to the charity where my sister works.

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We use a gold fish bowl to hold the change. It is our ‘pocket money’ for our vacation - cab fare, tips, etc. Typically it is $150 - $200 a year.

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Stainz and I have one of those “Yard High” plastic margarita glasses from Vegas that we put our nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies and toonies into.

Stainz just rolled 2/3rds of it and I think we have just over $200. We put all of our pennies into a Sleamans Bubba keg. I think it’s only about 1/4 full.

Before I met Stainz I was saving my change for a trip to Fijii. I had just over $1,000 saved in about a year. It was easy I just used cash and put all the change in a jar.

But then I decided to buy a house and I needed $1,000 cash to secure the house and my financing hadn’t come through yet so I used my spare change to secure the house.

I’ve haven’t gone to Fijii yet, but the house I bought has pretty much trippled in value in 5 years ($90k -> $270k).

MtM

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A few years ago I had an empty wine jug like this. For some reason I thought I could fill it up in no time…ha! It took a few years and when it got close to the top I took about a hundred dollars out of it to pay for an emergency bill and left the rest and kept adding.

The next time it got full was just last week so my husband and I got a bunch of change rollers and rolled all of it up. It came up to about $350. I used the majority of it to buy for the family we adopted for the holidays. I thought it was put to pretty good use.

Now it’s back on the counter, already accumulating. I never pay with exact change because I love nothing more than putting a handful of change into that jar. The next time it gets full I think I’ll put it in my savings account. Of course, that might take a few years and I imagine I’ll have some sort of emergency or other important something or other to spend it on.

Yay for change!