Comments on: Picking Up Pennies, Or, Make Sure You Use Every Cent of Your Paycheck

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:30:58 +0000

I’ve been collecting my spare change for probably 8-10 years now; still no idea what to do with it though. Haven’t counted it, but it’s about 40 pounds worth (can’t imagine 145 though!).

I did go through and look for pre-1964 dimes and quarters, since they are 90% silver and worth well more than face value. I sorted through a lot of coins, and ended up finding 1 silver dime. Better than none I guess! Definitely keep an eye out for those in your spare change.

By: Odzyskiwanie Danych

Odzyskiwanie Danych — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:54:06 +0000

Just few days ago I change my coins for notes in a bank (using auto counter). I recieved over 320 Euro. I keeped them in a 5L smirnoff bottle until it get full :)

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:51:55 +0000

@MC: Wow, that’s a huge jug! I can’t imagine how long it would take to amass that many coins.

@Brandon: I think I need to find a bank that does that, it sounds really handy. I used to roll my own until I found that not all banks accepted what I rolled them in.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:24:16 +0000

I put all my change in a huge mug, then when it is full I take it to the bank where they have one of those auto counters. It really adds up! This mug has about $130 bucks in in every time I cash it in!

By: MC

MC — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:29:54 +0000

In order to save money I put all my silver change into a 5 gallon water jug and when I got paid I put 100 dollars in quarters into it. When I went off to college I spent 35 hours rolling it all up while watching a back log downloaded shows. It was pretty fun. In the end I had a 145 pound jug that was full of 3450 dollars of nickels, dimes, quarters, and some dollar coins.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:58:59 +0000

That’s great that your credit union has a coin-counting machine and will do that for you. I’ve also thought of keeping separate track of the coins I pick up and then counting it all up at the end of the month to see just how much can be found on the street, or wherever.

By: bouncing back betty

bouncing back betty — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:37:29 +0000

I put my spare change in a mason jar that is on my bookshelf. Once every couple months, I take it to the credit union where they put tally it up via their own coinstar machine and I drop it into my savings account. I do pick up pennies on a regular basis and once a week, I dump out the accumulated change from my wallet, leaving only about a dollar in assorted coins.