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[which_chick]

I also counted out my change jar (actually a large ceramic flower pot) this evening. I do round dollar amounts for each coin set (the odd bits get thrown back in the jar to breed more money) and I came up with $81.00 in the change jar -- it had been high-graded for quarters a number of times because I don't carry much cash, don't have an ATM card, and frequently root through the change jar for walking-around money. Of that, seven dollars was in pennies. Tomorrow, I'll take it in to the bank where they will run it through their machine and count it for me. As far as I know, this is a free service of my bank -- they didn't charge me the last time I took change in to be counted. The reason I count it first is so that I will know if I'm being cheated. :)

What happens to pocket change at your house? Do you have a change jar? Do you carefully organize your life so that there is no NEED for a change jar? Do you fish the change out of the washer and immediately run off to spend it? What's the deal? Tell me!

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[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

I used to keep change in the ashtray in my car--but Calvin spent the money on things like phasers, photon torpedoes and cloaking devices so I had to cut him off.

I don't use cash very often at all, and usually either use up my change or throw odd bits of it into the tip jar at the Starbucks (where they are *very* nice to me and I almost never tip them because I'm usually paying with my Starbucks card).

When I do have change at home that I want to off-load, I throw it into one of Abner's change cups, which get routinely cherry picked for money for tolls on the way up to Philly.