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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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[brni.livejournal.com]

we have a large bronze pitcher which got filled with change, and then was dumped into a large tupperware-type containment unit. wash, rinse, and repeat until there were 3 such tupperware-type containment units and the pitcher was full again.

then apply 9 months of unemployment, whereupon the change became my walkin' around money. fortunately, i found new employment just as my resources became depleted.

few years later, that same pitcher became a source for the kid's walkin' around money when HE was unemployed.