Our son Seth gave us a self counting Change Jar as a gift We have always used a change jar though this is our 1st self counting one

Anyway - we started using it on Jan 1, our family of 4 and already today we have $92.50 inside and it's only 1/4 of the way full

When our jar gets filled we use that extra cash to do a family event like dinner and movies or whatever. We have been doing this since Michael and I were married !

Do you have a change jar ? What do you use it for and are you amazed how fast it adds up ?

Yeah ... we do not put pennies in that jar they have their own jar

I also 3$ in pennies

Holy cow!



Of course, that’s a lot of you contributing.

I have a Chinese cat bank that I put all of my quarters in for laundry money. I make a point to use cash so I can acquire the quarters I need when laundry day comes.
The rest of my change I use up as much as I can, nickels, dimes and pennies. I’m totally that annoying person in front of you in line counting out her exact change. Unless I’m in need of quarters, that is.

CarrieMpls said:

I count out exact change too if I have it on me

I fogot that my Dad also sometimes tosses in a handful - so that's 5 peeps pitching in

CarrieMpls said:

I'm very much like this. I'm like Rain Man when it comes to getting quarters back, which always confuses the cashier. But if my purchase comes to, say, $9.62, I know that if I give them $10.12, I'll get two quarters back. I'm all about getting the quarters.

I would, if I had any money to put in it

Efan said:

Teacher said:

omg

damn

Efan said:

Totally! I'm the same way!

I started one the first week in January. I'm going to try to keep it going.
I rarely use cash to pay for things,so I dont get change back most of the time.

In the past I used my change to buy sweets.

Mach said:

It's true though, at least at the end of the month

ThreadCula said:

I use my debit card more then cash as well

Teacher said:

I have been there too


Oh wait we sposed to be

Mach said:

Oh yeah Can you imagine how much it'll bug the person that we DON'T hate each other despite their efforts?

Teacher said:

It's not my nature to hate

I always sve my change for parking meters.

I have tried, but it makes me too sad at how little it ads up.....I use a debit card all the time, and raid what little change I have for coffee from the vending machine at work

I use credit or debit cards for almost everything these days. Any coins I get usually go in the car ashtray for meters. Coppers, 5s and 10s go in a tray with keys sometimes and very infreqnetly get taken to the bank.

My son has just started to get intrested in money so I have told him any bits of money he finds in the house he can put in a jar in his bedroom. Now when I tell him he can have the DVD when he pays for it, he will say I HAVE money daddy, in my jar!

We've got an empty water cooler bottle that we throw all our change in. We've had to move it to our bedroom closet because the kids like to go in it when no one is looking.

oh yeah, our debit purchases round up to the nearest dollar and the change goes into our savings account too. It's like a virtual change jar!

JerseyKRS said:

Ours does too

JerseyKRS said:

See we used to have one/do that too - then I figured quick that if we made it a Fam savings for Fam events the kids added to it instead of taking from it

PREDOMINANT said:

most excellent

paintsprayer said:

awww

1sexymf said:

That's a good thing though

Mach said:

Yeah (I hate carrying change). I keep a container near the front door and usually empty my pockets when I get home. When the thing gets full, the money goes to the bank.

i put one on my washer a few days ago because I always find change in the wash or dryer.

I have a jar that says "boob job fund". There's nothing in it

Mach said:

Adds up pretty fast. Great idea.

yup

I keep my silver change in this bank..


And all my pennies are in this..


The last time I counted my pennies I had almost $300.00. I started doing this,because I was curious to how much money in pennies the jar would hold.
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