NationStates Jolt Archive

No, this is not really a thread about Barack Obama.

With Barack Obama being sworn in in a little more than a week I got to thinking about what changes he would make, what would really be different, and then I thought... change! Change oh my god I have an entire container full of loose change sitting on my bookshelf! So, when I get home from work tonight (after midnight) I am going to count my change, sort it, total it up, and put it into money rolls that I'll either take to the bank to redeam for cash bills or just use to buy small purchases with.

I usually put my change in a little box I keep on my bookshelf next to my computer and forget about it, occasionally I remember it and use it for things.

What do you do with your change?

What do you do with your change?
Try to get it to a twenty note, had no joy at the grocer's.

A twenty note, had no joy at the grocer's.

I alweays hated that. I used to work as a carny. I was the operator for the Cow Derby game (quite a popular game) I'd start the day with $50 worth of ones and it seemed like at least one time a day I would get someone who would try to pay me with a $50, or a $100 for a $1 amusement :mad:

What do you do with your change?

Well, maybe a novel idea, but you can keep it in your wallet, so that you don't have to take it out and later wonder what to do with it, but actually pay with it the next time you go shopping! :tongue:

Well, maybe a novel idea, but you can keep it in your wallet, so that you don't have to take it out and later wonder what to do with it, but actually pay with it the next time you go shopping! :tongue:

I rarely pay for things using cash, and when I do I almost always put the change in my pocket and forget about it until laundry day, then I put it in my container.

I rarely pay for things using cash, and when I do I almost always put the change in my pocket and forget about it until laundry day, then I put it in my container.

Well, then either do away with cash altogether, or, with the whole box full of the stuff you have lying around at the moment, buy a wallet to keep it in. ;)

Well, then either do away with cash altogether, or, with the whole box full of the stuff you have lying around at the moment, buy a wallet to keep it in. ;)

I have a wallet, in which I keep my DEBIT CARD and all my Identification. I kep copies of all my IDs in a fileing cabinet and a locked folder on my flash drive and I have my bank on speed dial in case my wallet ever disapears.

I usually chuck it in a money tin I have and then when it gets full I will put it into those little plastic bank bags and give it take it into the bank. It only contains shrapnel so I end up with about $30-$40.

I have a wallet, in which I keep my DEBIT CARD and all my Identification. I kep copies of all my IDs in a fileing cabinet and a locked folder on my flash drive and I have my bank on speed dial in case my wallet ever disapears.

My wallet contains exactly what it is meant for: cash.
I keep my bank card, together with my driving licence and some membership cards, in a separate holder, so I'm not likely to loose both at once.
Both can conveniently be transferred to a clean pair of trousers whenever I want to wash the dirty ones.

My wallet contains exactly what it is meant for: cash.
I keep my bank card, together with my driving licence and some membership cards, in a separate holder, so I'm not likely to loose both at once.
Both can conveniently be transferred to a clean pair of trousers whenever I want to wash the dirty ones.

We must have a different concept of wallet, mine wouldn't even hold change in it.

I make little christmas decorations with my change, and scrub out the picture of the Queens head on each coin and cackle at my devious plans to steal the crown jewels.
ah one day, one day the world will eat ice cream out of plastic containers and i shall be rich and they'l be begging for mercy.
*feels powerful, maybe more so if i had more clean socks*

I've got a tin of House of Parliament chocolate truffles that now serves as my coin-jar. Shit knows how much is in it at this point, as it's just full of loose coppers and I can't be arsed to really sort it out right now. I do have, however, about four quid in 2p and 1p coins in those little banker bags. One is being used to hold my headphones so the wires don't tangle, whilst another was used last year to stop my curtains being funny when I had my window open.

I really can't be arsed to take them down to the bank to change them in to useful money.

We must have a different concept of wallet, mine wouldn't even hold change in it.

Wallet, purse, money holding device, whateveryawannacallit.

I usually put my change in a little box I keep on my bookshelf next to my computer and forget about it, occasionally I remember it and use it for things.

What do you do with your change?
I put it in a dish on the dresser. My kids take it when they come home from college.

Now that's change I can believe in.

I've got an idea to make a sort of scale armour cuirass out of loads of 2p coins punched and wired together.

It'd be cheaper to make than buying an actual piece of armour, plus it must have some protective qualities. I bet it couldn't be stabbed through.

I put it in a dish on the dresser. My kids take it when they come home from college.

Now that's change I can believe in.

Hahah yeah... at least when college students and beggars call for change you know what kind they mean.

I save up all my loose change for an occasion when I'm on campus and someone I don't like is in the queue behind me (e.g. someone who appears arrogant, has been rude to me, or has excessively right-wing opinions etc)

"Oh, sorry, you're in a rush to get somewhere? Well, I've nearly finished handing over the money for my entire week's shopping in 2p coins. Now, we've just got to wait for this lovely checkout operative here to count them all up and check"

I save up all my loose change for an occasion when I'm on campus and someone I don't like is in the queue behind me (e.g. someone who appears arrogant, has been rude to me, or has excessively right-wing opinions etc)

"Oh, sorry, you're in a rush to get somewhere? Well, I've nearly finished handing over the money for my entire week's shopping in 2p coins. Now, we've just got to wait for this lovely checkout operative here to count them all up and check"
People like you ought to be tarred and feathered. Collective punishment is illegal in warfare, so why not at the shops :tongue:

I save up all my loose change for an occasion when I'm on campus and someone I don't like is in the queue behind me (e.g. someone who appears arrogant, has been rude to me, or has excessively right-wing opinions etc)

"Oh, sorry, you're in a rush to get somewhere? Well, I've nearly finished handing over the money for my entire week's shopping in 2p coins. Now, we've just got to wait for this lovely checkout operative here to count them all up and check"

Devious and evil.. I like it.

I do the same thing you do with it -- let it accumulate in the house and once in a while total it up and bank it -- except that, being female, I am usually carrying a bag into which my change gets dropped loose. Change also collects in my coat and pants pockets. Plus I have small dishes and baskets cluttering the whole house to act as clutter-catchers in an attempt to control clutter, and these usually slowly fill up with coins as I randomly empty pockets and bags while getting dressed, changing bags, or prepping the laundry. There are also always those coins that magically escape and turn up under the carpets and whatnot. I don't know how they manage that. Every couple of years, I go on a big money hunt in my house. Then I sort and roll it all and usually come up with about $40-$50, which I just deposit into my bank account (just stick it back in there).

Between money hunts, I sometimes do mini-round-ups. There are no convenient ATMs in my worthless neighborhood, so if I just need to make a quick bread/milk run and I'm short paper money, I'll dig through all those containers until I come up with a few dollars in quarters. Convenience stores don't seem to mind me paying in coins, as long as it's not a huge amount, it's not pennies, and I'm not a moron who can't count and makes a mess on their counter. They like getting coins because they often run short of them at the end of the day. The convenience stores around me don't have debit card swipers; they handle them like credit cards, and I have to sign the receipt, and that's an even bigger pain in the ass to the lottery junkies in line behind me.

In spite of the fact that pennies are cockroach coins (small, brown, dirty and an amazingly high rate of reproduction), I save them and every other coin I get. At the end of every month, I remove every bit of cash smaller than a $5.00 from my purse and put it in a pitcher. When it gets to the magic amount (@$45-50) I bag it up, take it to the bank and deposit it. It's a fairly effective way to save money.

Throw it at small children.

I save up all my loose change for an occasion when I'm on campus and someone I don't like is in the queue behind me (e.g. someone who appears arrogant, has been rude to me, or has excessively right-wing opinions etc)

"Oh, sorry, you're in a rush to get somewhere? Well, I've nearly finished handing over the money for my entire week's shopping in 2p coins. Now, we've just got to wait for this lovely checkout operative here to count them all up and check"

Except they can decline payment in small change. If you are talking about Britain, IIRC, 2p coins are only legal tender for amounts up to 20p.

Except they can decline payment in small change. If you are talking about Britain, IIRC, 2p coins are only legal tender for amounts up to 20p.

Legal tender only matters when you're settling a debt. They are the amounts that cannot be refused.

Any monetary transaction in a shop is a personal contract so the shop can set any terms they like. Invitation to treat and all that.

Throw it at small children.
Throwing is so old fashioned; railguns are where it is at. Make those little buggers work for their money.

Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange......

I keep the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters in a pickle jar. I few years ago I got tired of hauling around loonies and toonies as well so they've got an old milk bottle or something. I'd have more of the latter but generally if a pay for something with cash (usually at the bar) whatever change I get usually ends up being the tip.

Anyone who carries change in their wallet and as a result suffers from fat wallet syndrome is stupid. Same with those stupid little change holder clip things that some tool whips out and is all like, "Tra-la-la! I've got the change for this!"

Throw it at small children.
Ahhh, that brings back memories of deployments to the Philippines. Anyone that's ever been to Cubi or Subic has probably got the same memories of dispensing of our loose change while crossing back across the Shit River bridge. We would throw it to the kids on the banka boats and they would catch the coins in nets or by hand.

The rest of you, you really missed something. (not the coin tossing, you idiots)

The rest of you, you really missed something. (not the coin tossing, you idiots)

The child prostitution?;)

whatever its made out of, coinage has more real value then paper, and the value of its metal content isn't tied to declining value of paper currency either. of course i'm talking about commodity value of its physical content rather then its face value.

yah, i stuff it in a matrice against the day paper becomes just paper, and if that day never comes, i haven't lost anything. most metals coins are minted from make good conductors of electricity and have other practical value too.

very good for lost wax casting of finely detailed small parts, that sort of thing.

Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange......

My god, he's one of them!

*shoots*

I put my change into a coffee can on my desk. When full it yields around $100, depending on whether I've had to sift through it for the $0.25 (or the more rare $.50) pieces before it was full.

The child prostitution?;)

Nah, I passed on that, too. There were plenty of American teachers at the DoDs schools. If you ever read the "Flight of the Intruder", Steve Coonts does a pretty fair job of capturing the atmosphere of walking down Magsaysay.

I keep 9 ct with me at all times. A 5 ct a 2 ct and 2 x 1 ct. That way I can always avoid getting more single digit coins - and I make the clerks wait until I make correct change to pay.