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Do you save your spare change?
I started saving pocket change in Arizona Iced Tea bottles back in '94-'95, after one of my friends emptied his out and counted out 100 bucks so we could go get some weed. I was hooked. After a year or so I had maybe 3 of them filled up then came across one of those empty 5 gallon water jugs and started filling that up instead.After 12-13 years of adding to it and never dipping into it, this is what I was left with....
The thing weighed 127.5 lbs, I weighed it on a bathroom scale. I took it to Commerce Bank, they have a free coin counting machine there. And that's where all hell broke loose.I jammed the machine!!! They had to come and take the thing apart, here is the first person who came over and she was extremely pissed off that her banking job has come down to fiddling with a coin counting machine.
Then she sent over another guy, I had to wait maybe 5 minutes for him. He didn't even look at me, barely muttered a word to me. I was silently chuckling to myself at first, these people must have thought I was the biggest fucking asshole for carrying in all this change and jamming their machine, and at this point there was a line of 4 people waiting, none of whom had more than a Ziploc sandwich bag full of change!! And every one of them was pissed at me too! So now the guy is able to get the machine working a bit, but you see in the picture at the bottom those loose coins below the white area? That's some type of chute, and he's now putting coins in the top and they're going right through and off the chute and all over the floor of the bank! I'm walking around like a complete fucking asshole at this point, picking up pennies in front of these people and openly laughing my ass off because this situation has reached the pinnacle of how absurd it could have possibly become.I think they were pissed that I was laughing, but that shit was too much. It was like a scene from a Coen brothers movie, or something you'd find on Candid Camera. I'd actually pay them for security camera footage of me walking around chasing this one nickel that wouldn't stop rolling. You know that freak coin that when you drop it it winds up rolling halfway around the block? I had ten of those fucking things in there.Finally I brought my receipts up to the teller, and while I'm there they were still trying to get the machine to work right for the next people. I'm looking at the teller and the guy who wouldn't even look at me just walks up and plops down on the counter a handful of change that fell through and the machine missed, then walks away without saying a word. They really fucking hated me at this place.I walked out with $1623.27. Nice day. Moral of the story, save your change.
The thing weighed 127.5 lbs, I weighed it on a bathroom scale. I took it to Commerce Bank, they have a free coin counting machine there. And that's where all hell broke loose.I jammed the machine!!! They had to come and take the thing apart, here is the first person who came over and she was extremely pissed off that her banking job has come down to fiddling with a coin counting machine.Then she sent over another guy, I had to wait maybe 5 minutes for him. He didn't even look at me, barely muttered a word to me. I was silently chuckling to myself at first, these people must have thought I was the biggest fucking asshole for carrying in all this change and jamming their machine, and at this point there was a line of 4 people waiting, none of whom had more than a Ziploc sandwich bag full of change!! And every one of them was pissed at me too! So now the guy is able to get the machine working a bit, but you see in the picture at the bottom those loose coins below the white area? That's some type of chute, and he's now putting coins in the top and they're going right through and off the chute and all over the floor of the bank! I'm walking around like a complete fucking asshole at this point, picking up pennies in front of these people and openly laughing my ass off because this situation has reached the pinnacle of how absurd it could have possibly become.I think they were pissed that I was laughing, but that shit was too much. It was like a scene from a Coen brothers movie, or something you'd find on Candid Camera. I'd actually pay them for security camera footage of me walking around chasing this one nickel that wouldn't stop rolling. You know that freak coin that when you drop it it winds up rolling halfway around the block? I had ten of those fucking things in there.Finally I brought my receipts up to the teller, and while I'm there they were still trying to get the machine to work right for the next people. I'm looking at the teller and the guy who wouldn't even look at me just walks up and plops down on the counter a handful of change that fell through and the machine missed, then walks away without saying a word. They really fucking hated me at this place.I walked out with $1623.27. Nice day. Moral of the story, save your change.
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ridiculous pile (a few months) I bring it to one
of those machines at the supermarket. Usually end
up with $25 or so, which isn't too bad.
$1600 is RIDICULOUS
12-13 years.. damn.. thats a long time
$1600 is come-up though. Nice.
Oh, and the one time I used the machine at Commerce Bank, the same shit happened to me. Twice. I don't think those machines work too well. Try a CoinStar, even if they do take a percentage.
We count it once a year, and over five years the change/random cash (never over $20)/love money has reached $2000.
We bought some furniture, and paid for part of a trip to New Zealand.
Save your change, folls. And do the do as often as you can.
I'm going to Commerce right now, I don't think I'll get $1600, maybe $30.
The last 3 times I went I actually won the "can you guess how much it is (within $2)?" game, I hope I can keep my streak up. Got me a sweet plastic Commerce letter opener!
i save my change, but i turn it in as soon as the jar almost gets too heavy for me to carry.
I love that Sween waited to redeem his coins until his change "jar" weighed as much as Edith_Head.
I can't believe you took a picture of her - that is hilarious!
I love those coin counting machines at the supermarket - like waiting to get a prize! I love waiting to see my total - will it be a crappy plastic toy or a giant plush panda?????
Wifey and I religiously save our change. In addition, we have gone
and now collect Lucky Pennies from the street, escalators, dollar vans etc which we keep in a separate jar. The plan is to eventually take all the pennies/coins (I found a $20 in an ATM tray one time! That is in there too) to a Coinstar and cash 'em in and then use the proceeds to pay for the adoption/rescue shelter fees for our next dog.
We plan to name the dog. . .Penny
1600dollars, unbelievable. Funny as hell that you took a picture of that lady. hahahahahaha.
I started off my adult life following his example, and once broke the piggy bank to buy an emergency plane ticket (circa $350 or so).
but these days I can't hold on to it, my change goes to tips on coffee and bus fares.
A waitress I knew back in Minneapolis used to throw her change from tips into a big water jug like Sween's. She would usually have at least $750 bucks off that thing once a year.
Save yer pennies.
why didn't he just save the money represented by those extra grams and use that to buy some fresh weed before leaving for spring break?
Great story.
1600 and 12 years
i have this glass gallon jug i store my change in, i was gonna fill it up and then pay a bill with it or something. at first i wasn't gonna put quarters in it because i play alot of pool at bars and need quarters to play. it got to the point where i was addicted to adding change to it. then the day came after a few months that i was dead broke and cashed it in, i think it was maybe a 5th full. i ended up with 62 dollars and i rolled it all up myself and took it to the bank. rolling it is actually not as bad as would think.
do you have to be a customer of that bank to or can anybody walk in off the street and use the machine?
sealed test tubes and jars keep plant matter basically fresh. plus why buy an eighth of one type of bud when you could have a cornucopia of different strains.
either way I could never do that shit.
haha! dope story. you should've took the change holmes put back on the counter and went and stood back in line for the machine again. or told them, "i'm going out to the car now to get my big batch of change. put a person on stand-by should your machine go down again."
when my wife and i were moving out of california, a friend that was helping us move offered to run our change over to a coinstar machine. we had been saving for 2-2.5 years. she had asked us to guess how much was in there. i ignorantly said $25. i was stoked when we had ~$220. I even bought a round of beers.
The $440 was from about 18 months worth of saving, i just throw whatever is in my pockets at the end of the day into a big jar.