Ok, who's with me on this? This is another easy challenge. Just save your change and wether you deposit into a bank account, add to it all year and count it at the end of the year, or count it as you add to it, it's all fun. You can do this any way you can... count all change, just pennies. just nickels, get the picture. What will you be saving your change for. I deposit ours about every 4-6 weeks. I think this year I will save it for next Christmas.]
I'm in! We have a neat jar that actually counts the coins as we put them in so I always know what's in there. If the lid is removed it resets so everyone knows to stay out of the change jar!
We usually use ours to do something fun on vacation!
I am going to use my change jar along with giftcards that i win by using swagbucks and by playing winster....and any rebates that i get back this year and any other little trading that i may do which results in some cash for christmas next year....Do you tally every month.....i also am going to try and save all my $1 bills.
We use our change for spending money on vacation. I just emptied it the other day and used the money to pay for DD and I to have breakfast together at the diner on our day off. So, it's empty again, and ready to go for vacation!
I am definetly in on this one. We save change all the time. We actually were able to pay for a hotel for our anniversary last year with our change jar.
I also have one that counts the change as it goes in.
I know it is off by a couple of pennies, but that isn't bad.
It is a pretty good size pink piggy LOL I love it
I use it for ... make it to payday bridge
I will turn it in on Friday and then start over for 2011 and see
how long I can let it sit.
I'm in. I don;t know what I'm saving for, but I would like to see how much is in there at the end of the year. i have one that counts as you put the money in as well. Its a smaller one, but I can always empty it into the big MTN Dew bottle bank that we have and mark the bottle each time the other jar is emptied into it.
I am in! I am putting all change, any rebates or unexpected little windfalls into it. I intend to count monthly and deposit to savings for my someday dream trip to Alaska.
~I'm in. This year I'm not going to count and roll all year long. I'm going to use a big, dark jug and save all year. The money will be for vacation fun money iin 2012.~
I've decided to kind of cheat and just leave this year's change in the jar. I can't see it (ceramic jar), so I have no idea how much is in there, but I know the jar is less than half full. So I will just keep adding to it, and occasionally, I may even throw a bill in there, and I'll consider it my stocking fund for next Christmas, since I already have a Christmas account at the bank!
Definitely joining this one.
I've got a little jar shapped like a apple that is totally full of dimes. Am currently hunting for wrappers so I can roll them up and see how much the jar actually holds. I've never gotten it full before.
I like the idea of a dark one you can't see into. I'd like to fill it all year and deposit it next December for Christmas.
I'm in! We have a fishbowl on DH's dresser that all the change (and the occasion $1 or $5 bill goes into . . . but once a month I go through it and empty it into the four big gallon pickle jars that I have hidden behind the bedroom door. I have found that it's easier to save if it's hidden -- and easier to roll at the end of the year when it's already divided
This year I'll count each addition and keep up with the totals.
I'm in too!! We have old green jars (made in Japan from coke bottles) with extremely thick rope tied around them - used as bumplers on boats originally - really neat - anyway - we are putting all change in there and will count it next year when DD comes home for Christmas!!
I found a dime by the sliding glass door and 36 cents on my dh's dresser. Into the jar it went.
I can't see into my jar either, but I'd say it's about half full. Off to a good start for the new year!
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