Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 06, 2015

Most banks/credit unions will do that for you now. They have a machine that will count them and total it up.

But, maybe Janis just enjoys doing it.

The quarters go in her change purse for smaller purchases.

I rolled them and left them as tips at restaurants, but not the places that comb the tablecloth in between courses.

I wonder what Janis had to do to accumulate all of those quarters.

ha, about once a month I clean out all the change that I just drop in the bottom of my purse when I shop. I have gotten as much as $20 and as little as $3, I put it in a small bank and then about once a year we take it to the Credit union and deposit it. Last time was about $600……amazing how fast that adds up, just drop your change into a jar every day for a month and see how much you have. :)

When my parents were first married – and for many, many years after – they had a globe shaped bank with a marked “stick” up the middle. If you were dropping in dimes, you had this much money, if nickels, this much. (In the 40s and 50s, who could afford quarters?) They always put their change in that bank every night, and that was our vacation money.

Those quarters used to be silver, and there used to be silver half-dollars in people’s pockets. But after Congress and the Fed have stolen 90% of the dollar’s purchasing value, you can’t even find anything that costs a non-silver quarter anymore. (Clever thieves, since you don’t notice anything leaving your wallet.) The decline of the American dollar is slow-motion compared to the many, many inflationary catastrophe’s of history (pre-Nazi Germany for one), but it will eventually catch up with us.

We save up all our loose coins for a year and, during the Christmas season, find someone who could really use a hand – and give it to them anonymously.

I already discard my deposit cans & bottles – too much hassle to lug them back to redeem. Wonder if I will eventually discard spare change for the same reason.

I save my change all year and use it to buy my wife’s birthday gift.

Some banks now charge you for every roll of coins you bring in or purchase and if you bring a lot unrolled they get farmed out to be counted and you don’t get your share for a week or more.

How did the quarters fit in a bottle with a neck that small?

i save the spare change and use it at the baseball card shows i go to…

And, I remember rubbing dimes with mercury to make them really shiny and slippery.

nobody mentioned parking meters?

We do the same with all our change – never spend change, always break a dollar if you need it it always save the change every day. Like finding money when you cash it in @ the bank

I just spend my change along with the green stuff. Never saw any point in saving it. It all spends the same.

I rarely carry cash these days. Auto deposit messed that up. Sometimes I’ll go to the ATM and get cash. I save for incidentals.

The pennies and nickels are close to being worth more as metal than money. Take the dimes and quarters to the bank, save the pennies and nickels.

Some change winds up in my truck ash tray for parking etc., but the majority gets put in the Salvation Army “penny march” each Sunday. The penny march was originally meant for the kids to donate to world services, but as we have few kids now it is mostly adults, one container for “girls” one for “boys”. We have a monthly contest, no prize, between girls and boys to see who gets the most, I sometimes “salt” the boys with not only my weekly change, but a little folding green too. Usually the girls still beat us.

I can’t let that remark about lesbians always being dishonest go without comment. I am close to one, and have had several gay inlaws and coworkers. I have not found them to be any more dishonest than the rest of the population.

By doing the sorting by hand Janis can watch for the rare collectable coin, if she put it in the sorting machine it would be gone for good.

I never get change back when using my debit card. Why pay with cash these days?

27 years ago I lugged all my rolled change into a bank to cash it in. The bank made me tear all the rolls and dump it loose into the ammo can I had stored it in before they would take it. Had over $400 dollars and my count was off by 1 cent (my favor). Used that money to pay for our honeymoon a few days later.

Funniest sight was the little boy rummaging like a squirrel through the trash where i dumped the paper rolls. He was just sure I’d miss some.

My Credit Union has a coin count machine that deposits the total directly into my Checking Account..They do ask that I pre-sort into pennies, nickels, dimes & quarters. Not Count, just Sort..And, somewhere around here, I still have a handful of SB Anthony dollar coins.

Oh, and a couple Japanese coins that are worth about $5 Each. If I were in Japan, that is.

And, then there is the 1/2 Franc coin that I have no Idea where I got it..

We save our change for ‘trip money.’ We never use anything but paper money when we buy things. that way, the jar just fills up pretty quickly. Casino winnings also go into the trip money stash.