#change jar

[shiftythrifting]

This uh….. ornament? Found at a thrift store in Australia.

[kahlendeverauxboutique]

Design 1:

Let people pay you for not shutting the fuck up.

Design 2:

Let people pay you for not shutting the fuck up.

[quartergremlin]

I’ve been frustrated with my art lately.

It’s the best it’s ever been, and i’m happy with it. I’m proud of it. But,

There’s still

something

missing

[tattooed-alchemist]

My spare change ‘jar’ is the glass leftover from a cash manifestation candle that was gifted to me, and as I came in the door the other day and scooped change out of my pocket and reached towards the jar, my brain erupted with shrieking and hand-waving.

Right.  Touching money is virus-level dirty.

Fortunately I lived in San Francisco a couple decades ago, not far from the St Francis Hotel, a place that then maintained its quaint practice of washing a guests’ coin change for them, if they wished, while they stayed in the hotel.  It kept ones gloves cleaner back in the day.

I mixed up my own version of their formula: soap, water and a touch of baking soda to provide a gentle scrubbing action.  The jar got a wash as well.

[andimthedad]

I bought a dented paint bucket, unlabeled and never used for paint, off the clearance rack at a hardware store many years ago. It might have cost me 50¢. I punched a slot in the lid and began using it as a change jar. It replaced a much smaller glass change jar that I’d been using for awhile. As I told the kids: as soon as the bucket was so full that I couldn’t put any more coins into it, we would take it down to the bank and pour it into the change-counting machine in the lobby.

That day arrived recently. I couldn’t fit even a dime into it. We weighed it at 34.6 pounds (15.7 kilograms for you metric folks). That’s a little heavier than my dog. Good thing I called the bank ahead of time, because it turns out they removed their coin-counting machine a couple of years ago, so I would’ve hauled the money down there for nothing.

We considered taking it to a CoinStar machine at a local supermarket, but we didn’t like 12% they took. But the kids also wanted to sort through the coins for anything interesting. So, we made a deal: if they worked together and rolled the coins into paper tubes, we would give them each 6% of the total. I would still be losing 12% but at least it would be to my kids. Part of the deal was that they didn’t have to roll the pennies, which was at least half of the bucket; we would put those through CoinStar. 

After about three hours, they had rolled $283, including $2 in pennies that Beth decided she would roll just for fun. At 6%, that earned them $17 apiece. CoinStar gave us another $15 or so for the pennies.

The kids also sorted out a handful of more curious items: two half-dollars,  several wheat pennies (none valuable), a few Mexican pesos, and two old New York City subway tokens. This gives you an idea of how long my change has been piling up, as the NYC subway has not used tokens since 2003. So, these have been banging around my change jars and buckets for at least 14 years.

Now, time to start filling it up again. Will it take another 14 years?

[blogthefiresidechats]

Saving money....

Saving money….

How do you save money so that you can go shopping at a bookstore near you? Change Jar = My hubby and I have done this before……keep a jar to throw all your loose change in. When the jar gets full, you can take it to the bank and dump it in their machine to count the change for you. Once you’ve done that, you’ll have some paper money which will be easier to carry around on you while you’re at the…

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[krygginswantshotchocolate-blog]

For a Rainy Day change jar

used acrylic paint and some stencils for the lettering and the umbrella

used some fabric, a hot glue gun, and the lid for the top

[floweredwithnerves]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yep7csPDWTs)

I want to pull every dandelion in your yard ‘cause you’ve been pulling mine from the start

Change Jar ( @changejarpa) - “Spin Me”