I've got a massive penny jar back home, and a dish with about $4-5 worth of nickels and dimes. I'm pretty good about spending my change as long as its a quarter and up. I rarely leave it in my pants when they hit the wash. Right now I have a huge stack of 1p and 2p coins on my dresser... seriously who thought having a 2 pence coin was a good idea. 1p coins didn't annoy them enough?
I don't carry cash as a policy. Sometimes I'll end up with a toonie at the end of the day or whatever but that quickly disappears when I get my morning coffee the next day.
I hate stuff in my pockets. More than my keys and my cellphone drives me nuts. I even keep my atm card, visa, and driver's license in my breast pocket, not even in a wallet. Unwanted bulk in my pockets.
If you've got loonies and toonies in there you're insane if your thinking $1000 on the top end. I'd bet you've got a bit more than that.
OK, maybe insane is a strong word, but it conveys how strongly I feel that you are a richer man than you think!
ya my wife tells me Im Loonie all the time, she agrees with you...!! Maybe one day she will get tired of telling me to do it and do it herself LOL. Im assuming there might be a trip to somewhere warm in them cans.
Every day I empty all my change into a can in my bedroom. Have about 15 Cans right now, full of change. These are large coffee cans..so I assume there is hundreds of dollars...perhaps over a grand? My wife nags me to roll them and turn em in to the bank....but the cans are too heavy to move so Ill leave em for awhile.
I do that too, but my problem is that the rest of the family treats it as their own personal ATM so nothing larger than a dime ever collects.
The best found money score i ever made was a $50 dollar bill hid in a second hand book I bought. That was the best book I ever bought ... can't remember what it was about though.
I have $3.28 in my pocket in change right now. Over the course of the day I'll get enough to buy a hot dog at the game tonight. It comes, it goes. When I have too much change jingling around, I put it in one of the charity or tip boxes at a coffee shop.
This used to be such a pleasant surprise. Finding money in the couch or jackets or pant pockets. No idea when it had made it's way there either.
But for years now I haven't carried cash. I very rarely have change of any kind. If they ever and I think they will convert over to a chip in your hand(or wherever) as your means of identification and moolah I'm going to find the transition a very easy one. Fact is I'd love to lose the wallet carrying around days.
Bring on the technology -- save the paper(trees) and the metals.
The best found money score i ever made was a $50 dollar bill hid in a second hand book I bought. That was the best book I ever bought ... can't remember what it was about though.
When I was a kid I would hide $20 bills in obscure places around my room for the purpose of forgetting all about them.
Months later I would randomly rediscover the bills. Boy, what a thrill. It was like finding treasure!
Reading your story though... I'm starting to think it was a dumb idea.
I was just going to say that. Who needs pants? I have a bad habit of leaving change in my pockets, then the change ends up on the chair that I throw my pants on when I take them off. I went through the chair last year and I ended with enough to get new pants.
I usually have little piles of change laying around for the exact same reason, it tends to fall where my jeans/pants do.
if your thinking $1000 on the top end. I'd bet you've got a bit more than that.
Maybe one day she will get tired of telling me to do it and do it herself LOL. Im assuming there might be a trip to somewhere warm in them cans.
