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    We sat down last night and sorted change. Rolled $80 with leftovers for next time. That made me happy.

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    Great job I love rolling change always use the silver for Christmas and pennies for St Judes Childrens Hospital

    Total so far

    Silver 635.00

    Pennies 75.00

    Will turn in in dec. the bank hates when I do lol

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    HP - congratulations - that's a lot of money!!

    Lora88 - what great idea - I love the work that St. Jude's does. Think I will borrow your idea and perhaps ask others at school to join in!! Mahalo!!
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    Lora, wow what a great idea. We always sort out the wheat pennies & other oddities but this will be a great thing for this season! The money I donated to St. Jude's last Christmas also got a teddy bear that is one of my wife's favorite seasonal decorations. Bingo, the kids won, I won... Happy Holidays to me.

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    Great idea about the pennies!! We saved change one year and were able to buy two heavy-duty bicycles for our missionaries in India.

    St. Jude is a tremendous charity!
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    I just dragged all our change to the bank. We've been saving it since we got engaged (about 7 years ago). It was $520. Pretty amazing!
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    We spend all our change! Don't know how people get by without spending it... It keeps our paws off the money in the bank.
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    Awesome!
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    Wow, that is a lot of change. Atleast that is what the coin machine tells me when I go in. Yes, the change jar has gotten me out of many tight situations.

    Right now I am only saving pennies. It does feel good when you are able to see a nice sum of money.

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    I took $16 in pennies to the bank today to deposit into my checking account. I spent $1 on the coin wrappers and spent 1 hour rolling the pennies, so I figure I cleared $15 an hour.

    And while I rolled I watched a Robert Redford movie!

    Not a bad way to spend some time.

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    Wow. How long did it take you to collect $80 in loose change?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shoiji View Post
    Wow, that is a lot of change. Atleast that is what the coin machine tells me when I go in.
    Count it yourself and save the 10% fee!

    Quote Originally Posted by littleplum View Post
    Wow. How long did it take you to collect $80 in loose change?
    wife says 6mo-8mo. but most of our purchases are cash so we accumulate change... and every bit of change goes into a jar either upstairs in the closet when changing, (pun not intended, not even realized until later...) or downstairs for when we get home and empty pockets.
    Once in a very great while when I know we're going to spend while out I will take 2 quarters (only if I know we don't need them to finish out the state quarter books), 2 or 3 nickels, 2 or 3 dimes, and 5 pennies. Figure I can even out anything with that, drives my wife nuts that I don't keep it in that jar...although (don't tell her) 95% of the time I bring it back home and put it back in the jar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ilovechocolate View Post
    I took $16 in pennies to the bank today to deposit into my checking account. I spent $1 on the coin wrappers and spent 1 hour rolling the pennies, so I figure I cleared $15 an hour.

    And while I rolled I watched a Robert Redford movie!

    Not a bad way to spend some time.
    I don't know if your bank does this, but ours gives the wrappers for free.

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    Nice job. You should join our change jar challenge. There are no rules, you can save whatever you want and do with it what you want, but it's always nice to see that total go up. I take my change in at the end of every month and deposit into our savings.

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    Good job. I have a bucket of change calling my name to do the same.

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