Pluggers by Rick McKee for February 01, 2021

Actually it is one of the reasons there is a coin shortage my wife works for a banks treasury department they said people are hoarding coins.

Until you go to a Coin Star machine.

Then stop hoarding them. But don’t be in line in front of me counting out coins to pay for stuff.

In Canada we got rid of pennies!

Pluggers believe in change.

That is called a Plugger savings account system ! As the jars fill up with coins you know you have saved money for a rainy day :-)

My wife rolled proximately $30 in coins, and asked me to take them to deposit. When I got to the credit union called they told me they no longer take coins. No wonder there’s a shortage

I ran my wife’s coin jars through the credit union’s machine. Over 1300 coins, but 90% pennies.

I have a jar for pennies and a large crayon bank for the other coins. Crayon weighs about 10# now. Asked the bank if they had a coin shortage and would bring it in if they did. They said they didn’t. So now I’m working on 15#.

My daughter is 40 and she puts change everywhere in her car and jars in the house. Last year she turned in about 40 pounds of change (worth about $600).

We used to get about a quart of coins a year in our jar. Now that we don’t spend cash for anything there is about an inch in the jar and holding steady. I keep a couple 20’s in my billfold for emergencies and they have been there since about October.

Aren’t Jefferson nickels cute? ( This comment was injected to appease people opposed to fictional novels.)

I keep all my change in the couch cushions. But since the COVID it’s not accumulating very fast as I even pay for a single coffee with plastic.

Pluggers ARE the coin shortage! (which reminds me, I need to take my coins into the bank…)

We’ve been trying for years to fill a jar with coins. At first we had a 5 gallon glass water bottle, but we also had a sticky-fingered teenager, so the level never got above about 3 to 4 inches. Then we got burglarized and all of it went away. Now we have a 3 foot tall coke bottle which is about 2/3 full and it’s taken us many years to get that far. I can’t wait to see how much it holds when it is finally full.

I used to fill my piggy bank several times (it is pretty good size as my mother hand made it out of clay and made it big at my request) before taking coins to the bank. I would go thru the coins each time it got full and pull out any special (to me) coins – specifically $1 coins and the special State and National Park quarters. Pennies, nickels and dimes, not as much – mostly looking for dates significant to our family or special mint stamps (P, S, D, etc) for the coin books. Everything else got rolled up and taken to the bank (TD). They took whatever we brought in. But ever since I heard about the coin shortage (businesses, not banks), I have started carrying enough coins to be able to give exact change. Small business especially, seem to really appreciate the coinage.

Maybe because we helped create it.

There is no coin shortage, it’s a circulation issue, people are not digging the change out to pay exact with. So they end up in jars at home.