Saving change

[JenDaveBrendan]

Just a tip I thought I would share.....
We have been putting spare change and extra bills ( a dollar or so) into a piggy bank for spending money for our Disney trip... and we have saved $160 in a little over a month!!! This was effortless, just putting in spare change and a dollar or so here and there. What I do is only buy things with dollar bills and save the change to put into the piggy... I can't believe it has added up so fast!


Jen

 

[mommy2mrb]

We are doing to same for our cruise and also saving $20 a week ( I already have our tip $ saved) plus everytime our DD doesn't ask for a "treat" when we go shopping we put $5 in, so she is learning the value of her patience.

Lisa

 

[melindaandrob]

We also use a change jar, I agree, a great way to save! When we make our own pizza instead of ordering we put the equivalent in $ in the jar. Our property taxes are split into 10 monthly payments so the other 2 months we 'pay' it to out Disney fund. It's amazing how much you can save playing the 'saving mental games'. It is a great tool to teach your kids how to save as Lisa pointed out!

 

[Tinkerbellmom33]

We've been doing this for years. It's amazing how much money collects!! We'll be rolling it soon. I can't wait to see how much we have this time.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

counted mine last night...i have 157.60..only have been saving for a couple of months!! still have 3 months to go!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I did that with a GIANT bank for about 6 years. I would never use my change at the stores, then dump it in the bank. Whenever I got a nice new crisp bill, I would drop it in there, too. Once I got a $100 bill-dropped it in.....Sounds great, huh??? Well, I now do NOT have the time to empty this thing and count all that change. I have an automatic change counter that rolls the coins automatically, but even that takes a lot of time. I have rolled/counted about 1/4 of the contents, and have gotten about $600 out of it (I had a lot of bills!). I wish I could just take the bank to my bank and say "here, deposit this", but I don't think that would work.. If I ever do this again, I am going to keep up with the rolling better-to do it all at once would take DAYS!

Taking it to one of those machines in the grocery store to me is Piracy-they keep 10%!!
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My DH doesn't get the concept-he doesn't think of it as "found" money. So I have to hide it from him....

 

[DisneyMomx7]

We do the same thing and average about $100 per month. We go to Disney once a year so that's $1200 of savings that we really don't even feel.

 

[sskem96]

Check with your bank. Ours will take loose change. We asked before we started our change jar so we knew what we would be up against. Some banks have a change counter similar to the ones in the grocery stores, and those banks typically will take the loose change. It never hurts to ask!

 

[julieboolie]

We have dd saving her change and grandparent donations instead of wasting it on "treats". Then, right before we leave we're going to take it to a Disney store and ger her disney dollars. That way she can buy what she wants to on vacation and not hit us up for everything she sees.

It's a great idea and we wish we'd thought of it sooner!

Enjoy! Happy saving!

 

[HappyLawyer]

i agree we do it every year each day we come in and empty all change into a mop bucket we cash it in right before vacation clost to 1000 last year

 

[delmont]

Isn't it great?! It's hard to believe that much money accumulates from change!

Last year, we flew to Vegas for a long weekend with change we had been saving for a few years.

It started out as a joke that the change would be for our daughters' "college fund". Maybe we'll start that next year! (shame on us)