Coinstar
Wow what a re-entry that I will be making today in the blog world. I am going to tell you about my trip to the coinstar machine. We were in need of some money and I have a huge mason jar. I think it's a 4 gallon jar. Anyway, that is my piggy bank. I put change in there at the end of every day. I had only been doing it for about 2 months.
I wanted to wait till it was full to cash it in but we needed the money so I brought it in. I started to pour my change in the bin. I started to shale the little bin thing and dumping money into the machine. I am amazed at which the speed this thing works. I can hear all of the change clinking around in there and and see the amount of each change. I wish I would have written the stats down.
Any way, when all was said and done, I was walking out of the store with $52.10. I was shocked at how much money you can make from change. Now for next time, I can't wait to see how much the full 4 gallons will yield in money. I would assume that would take well over a year to accomplish. I will keep you posted on the status of my boring ass life.
posted by cackmandu at 10:38 AM
2 Comments:
Just imagine how much money you could accumulate in change if you lived in Canada. It takes nothing at all to have pockets full of one dollar and two dollar coins weighing you down. I came home one night from the bar and had 20.00 in coins in my pocket.
October 26, 2005 10:42 AM
I did that one time. Over the years I collected coins from my mother's abandoned purses. At the end of my last semester a purchase got lost so I thought I had more money than I did. Well, needless to say my account was charged several overdraft fees once that purchase was finally entered into the bank computers. (I now regularly balance my checkbook.) So I was more than broke for a couple of weeks, but I took all that change to the Coinstar machine and walked away with $61 and made it last me two weeks. It made my first overdraft experience a little less stressful.
October 26, 2005 11:26 AM
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