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Marthe48

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32. Be careful using a glass container

Wed Mar 19, 2025, 08:19 AM

Mar 19

If the weight is too much, it can crack or break the base. Learned that the hard way.
I like to look through my change for coins that might be valuable. I still get a silver coin, or wheat pennies. I save the pure copper pennies (1982 and before) in case the scrap law changes
I usually wrap all of the coins when I have about $40. I've wrapped coins since I was a kid. Not a job I look forward to, but I don't do it often.
If you can donate them, I bet a food bank, humane society, or other local org. would be glad to have them

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What do you do with coins? [View all] CTyankee Mar 18 OP

I hoard quarters for the laundromat and tire pressure no_hypocrisy Mar 18 #1

too bad you don't live next door to me! CTyankee Mar 18 #5

QT has free air. Mosby Mar 18 #12

Make one wish a day and throw a penny in the garbage. Frasier Balzov Mar 18 #2

Our bank has a coin counting machine. Quakerfriend Mar 18 #3

You can always burden me with the pennies. Drop them off at an elementary school, they LoisB Mar 18 #4

I thought of that but it's such a tiresome job for a teacher. CTyankee Mar 18 #7

That's a good idea. I have never used a machine at the supermarket but have at my credit LoisB Mar 18 #18

We have four young grand nephews BOSSHOG Mar 18 #6

I keep my coins in the car and when I'm at a corner with cachukis Mar 18 #8

Need quarters for shopping cart at ALDI. bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #9

I've had them forever, maybe over 20 years since we've lived in our house. It is a huge jar, now about full. CTyankee Mar 18 #13

Like 5 pounds of whey protein full? That would be heavy bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #15

Oh, for goodness sakes "using cash". How gauche of us who do.... electric_blue68 Mar 19 #25

My bank gave me a prepaid debit card. multigraincracker Mar 19 #29

You have to pay for a cart? Deuxcents Mar 18 #16

u get ur quarter back but u need it to undock it from its pen. /nt bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #17

O..actually a great idea to make sure they get their carts back. I see them far away from the store sometimes Deuxcents Mar 18 #19

You would think, but I had an ALDI checker tell me they can't keep the carts in the store bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #20

Welp..so much for that! Deuxcents Mar 18 #22

Actually is a good system NJCher Mar 19 #28

What do I do with coins? Diamond_Dog Mar 18 #10

When my cigar box gets close to full of coins Shambala Mar 18 #11

Our credit union has a free coin counting machine that prints a receipt that you take to a teller who Enter stage left Mar 18 #14

Credit Unions BOSSHOG Mar 18 #21

I don't do online banking. I do inline banking. multigraincracker Mar 19 #30

I agree, Credit Unions are great LogDog75 Mar 19 #35

Hello My Friend BOSSHOG Mar 19 #38

change Maninacan Mar 18 #23

I'll sort through them LogDog75 Mar 19 #36

I have 3 piggy banks. Archae Mar 18 #24

I have a giant vase full of pennies, nickels, and dimes. Demobrat Mar 19 #26

Nowadays I (infrequently) use the Coinstar kiosk/machine in the local supermarket RockRaven Mar 19 #27

I like to leave them in the donation banks on the counter. multigraincracker Mar 19 #31

Be careful using a glass container Marthe48 Mar 19 #32

I'll give you face value for those coins in the jar onethatcares Mar 19 #33

The quarters I segregate and use for the car wash in my neighborhood, vending machines, etc. Xavier Breath Mar 19 #34

Every couple of years I put them in rolls and take them to the bank Auggie Mar 19 #37

A primary school teacher would love to have them. KitFox Mar 20 #39

My Dad always saved his pocket change Rhiannon12866 Mar 20 #40

omg hubby is such a coin freak..he picks them up off the ground samnsara Mar 20 #41

Right now I am trying to fill out 3 new women Quarter Emile Mar 20 #42