check your homes for spare change! :)

[kmvand1]

maybe you could have used the change to hire a maid service. sounds like you might need it.

Wow! That was rude! Could you have not thought of something maybe oh, positive to say?? How about "congrats on your findings!" My father in law was a barber for over 40 years, when he died, my husband and sisters in law found multiple coffee cans full of change and silver dollars as well. It was a silver lining (so to speak) in the midst of all the sadness.

 

[disneydreamer1970]

Good for you! We don't spend any change...all if it goes into the change jars...one for silver and the other for pennies. The penny jar is so heavy I can hardly lift it. We are going to cash in our change the day before our trip in December. I can't wait to find out how much is there.

Trish

 

[gracie1]

maybe you could have used the change to hire a maid service. sounds like you might need it.


That is a little harsh. OP should have been a little clearer about having saved some change already from previous years, but it doesn't mean she is completely filthy or anything.




Why not use your found money to buy a car? You had 'multiple' jars of money laying around the house? Incredible!


Where do you live to buy a car for $650

 

[ricktib]

Change really does add up, we tend to collect $800 in 2 years. We recently rolled it all and put it in our Disney account...

I did this recently too, but when I took the rolls to the bank, the teller looked at me like I had three heads and had me empty all of the rolls into their coin-counting machine.

 

[DawnM]

That is a LOT of change!

I use my change.....it is easier for me to have $80-$200 transfered per month into an ING account marked "Disney" than to have to roll money or deal with change at all.

Dawn

 

[DawnM]

Maids don't clean in drawers or out of change jars.

Were you trying to be funny or rude? It did not translate as funny if you were.

Dawn

maybe you could have used the change to hire a maid service. sounds like you might need it.

 

[KittyHellstrom]

maybe you could have used the change to hire a maid service. sounds like you might need it.

Just cause I took awhile to cash in my change jars? Alrighty then...

I might be a bit of a packrat but that's ok cause it'll be paying for an awesome vacation. Thanks to everyone who wished me well

-kitty

 

[meghanlea]

we went to disney this past june, in jan. (2010) I starting getting out cash at the atm each week 100 for me and 100 for DH. Anything I found of his laying around $5 or less I stuck it in a bank I have had since I was 4. The thing is HUGE. I also put my $5 or less in as soon as I got hom from where ever I was. We cashed it in mid may and it was over $700 and that was the plan so it could be "extra" money for the kids while we were there.

 

[kmvand1]

Just cause I took awhile to cash in my change jars? Alrighty then...

I might be a bit of a packrat but that's ok cause it'll be paying for an awesome vacation. Thanks to everyone who wished me well

-kitty

 

[gracie1]

I did this recently too, but when I took the rolls to the bank, the teller looked at me like I had three heads and had me empty all of the rolls into their coin-counting machine.

Lucky you for still having the coin counting machines!!!! We had them here at all of our banks, and they did away with them. They won't even take the rolled coins, you have to take them to the bank and they send them to their main office and then automatically deposit them in your account. I hate this new feature
So, I found out after talking to a bank the other day that they will take like 5 rolls of coins a day, so I am going to do that. I do not like sending my money away. What if it gets lost

 

[Mad4Mickey]

We never have change laying around , our 2 yr old Granddaughter looks for money for her Mickey Mouse trip bank .

 

[TheRatPack]

LOL, we rolled ours the other day and we had around 27.00....LMBO!!!! Oh well, we don't really try that hard and this is change that was just found in the dryer...etc over the past year.

 

[lamb616]

wow, we are pretty broke here so the chance of ever finding any extra $$ around is slim to none. There are times DH & I are looking under cushions desperate for a couple bucks to get a DD coffee, lol.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I did this recently too, but when I took the rolls to the bank, the teller looked at me like I had three heads and had me empty all of the rolls into their coin-counting machine.

That's too bad. I went with about $500 worth of rolled coins a few months ago, hen another cople hundred about 6 weeks later (finally did the pennies and DH brought his home from work.) No problems. We don't have the coin counters here for customer use and I am too cheap to do it at Coin Star. Plus, the kids and I enjoy doing it together. They like to see us saving for the trip.

 

[Sadie22]

Just cause I took awhile to cash in my change jars? Alrighty then...

I might be a bit of a packrat but that's ok cause it'll be paying for an awesome vacation. Thanks to everyone who wished me well

-kitty

I'm a packrat but I never find money when I clean! Wow! I wish that would happen to me! Have a super trip!

 

[LBIJim]

I read this to DH and he doesn't believe it. We take our change in a couple times a year, and it ends up being about $50 each time. How on earth did you have $650?? Good job- but DH thinks you meant to say $65.00.

No, I believe the OP meant $650.

My wife "forbids" me from putting loose change back into my pocket. When I empty my pocket at night the change goes into an empty wine carafe. We fill it a few times a year and each time it's about $150 or so.

She also yells at me when we're out together and I attempt to pay say a $12.19 bill with any change I have from a previous purchase. "It's for the change jar!!!"

Yeah, I know overall it's six of one/half a dozen of the other, but it's kind of a treat when we redeem the full change jar.

Jim

 

[cluvsdisney]

That's great!! It's amazing how much it adds up.


We turned in a pile of change back in the spring and it was a little over $600 also. We both try not to spend loose change so it adds up after a while.

 

[gracie1]

That's too bad. I went with about $500 worth of rolled coins a few months ago, hen another cople hundred about 6 weeks later (finally did the pennies and DH brought his home from work.) No problems. We don't have the coin counters here for customer use and I am too cheap to do it at Coin Star. Plus, the kids and I enjoy doing it together. They like to see us saving for the trip.

I won't do coinstar either. I am too cheap too!!

 

[mdrob214]

I did this recently too, but when I took the rolls to the bank, the teller looked at me like I had three heads and had me empty all of the rolls into their coin-counting machine.

My credit union won't accept rolled coin, either. I just bring it in a huge tupperware container (don't want to bring my glass change jug--a one-gallon wine jug that my parents used for all the years I grew up, then handed down to me).

My dad never spent a coin--if the total was $x.01, he'd get 99cents back and would put it in the jug at home. It really does add up!

 

[pampam]

Why not use your found money to buy a car? You had 'multiple' jars of money laying around the house? Incredible!

Many people don't need a car. Rather than pay for a car, gas, insurance, wear and tear, tires, batteries, wiper blades etc, it's cheaper in the long run to walk, bike, bus or on occasion taxi it.