Whose "owns" the loose change at your house?

[bookgirl]

Around our families' houses, cars, and everyday occurance change belongs to whoever gets their grubby little hands on it first. An we are all a huge bunch of coin hoarders.

My mom was taught by her father to keep her coins (big you know what glass jar next to her bedside, then into a huge apothacary jar) she's close to 1000 bucks currently. Won't even turn it in because she likes to look at it, and to count it every couple of months. When my dad was in construction this is how we got through slow months.

My step dad is a district manager for a large newspaper. He often has to "run" a route if he is short a carrier. Since these are mostly comercial routes they include newspaper racks. So he gets to keep the money from those. The dude totally bags it up then hides it around the office. Literally tons of change. It's his emergency money. Well that and he also gives every new carrier a starter pack of coins to work thier machines.

I being also taught by my mother that saving change is good have various jars around my place as well, only I only let it go so far then I haul that stuff to the bank and put it in savings. I only allow myself to hoard it and play with it for so long. LOL

My brother is the type who fills up the buckets, when it's full find another to fill, put them all in the back of the closet and forget that he has them. Does not like to carry change and can't stand to get rid of it.

My nephews have no concept of giving back change, you give them money and it's THIERS. One is a closet hoarder like his father we know it's there but he refuses to tell us how much, the other is a 'cool, free money. Let's go to the card shop!' though I know for a fact that he has a couple of containers full of change. When they were toddlers they use to pat us down and then fill up thier piggy banks. We can't blame them, they come by the compulsion honestly.

 

[PatsMom]

All silver change goes into the "Mickey Jar". We cash it in once a year for one of our trips - usually January when we celebrate my daughter's un-birthday with a fancy dinner. This is both "found" change and change you collect throughout the day.

When I did the laundry, if I found paper money it was mine. But that was before my daughter was really old enough to stick money in her pocket. By the time she got to middle school, my husband was doing the laundry. He knows it has to be hers because he finds it in the dryer after doing her clothes. He returns it to her because he feels bad for her. I would keep it and add it to the Disney fund.

 

[cm8]

In our house? I do. If if find it in the couch, on the counter, in the washing machine, etc. It belongs to me. I don't search for the owner, I simply confiscate it. That said, I put it in an empty laundry detergent container and when its full, I roll them up. In fact, its cold and damp here today, so I rolled them up. I ran out of quarter wrappers, so I will pick some up and then haul it off to the bank. The last time we I spent the money, we used it for an excursion/tour when we all went to Hawaii in 2006. I have been saving those nickels, dimes, quarters and pennies since. Today I added them up...$752. Some banks limit the amount of coins they will take. I hope ours didn't change their policy.

I do!! Since I do the cleaning (sometimes) laundry, I tend to come away with lots of cash especially when we go out for the day and use cash. My husband knows that he loses what ever he leaves in his pockets, since I always have to check his pockets to make sure another pen doesn't explode in our dryer.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

The piggy bank.....eventually it turns into some vacation spending money.
Every 4-5 months it gets traded in....

 

[Piglet4Ever]

In our house all our change goes into our WDW popcorn bucket and we save it for our next WDW trip. We usually change it in a couple times a yr. We make about $500 a yr from it so that is pretty nice.

 

[cm8]

We have a big water jug that DH spray painted black.We put all silver in there for our Disney trip. We also put in some bills once in a while. We have no idea how much in there since you can't see in. DH did say if we ever have a fire grab the Disney jug and run. It will be fun to count next summer.

 

[Sparx]

We have a change jar in the bedroom. Whomever needs a few quarters gets them out of there.

I never use change really (and I don't carry cash often) so I'm not usually the one getting into it.

 

[Bonnie151]

I own it. I need £1.65 in exact change for each child's school lunch Mon-Fri. Any spare change, whether found around the house, or in pockets, or my purse gets put into little piles on a shelf in the kitchen and I'm still often short!

 

[snarlingcoyote]

When dear god daughter moved out and I finally got around to cleaning out her room, I found about $100 in loose change.

And yes, I kept it. I counted it as cleaning fees - she left everything she didn't want, and I mean EVERYTHING. I didn't say a word, because I did the same thing to my mom many years before and considered it karmic payback.

But I will admit that having that $100 bucks (most of which I spent on the goddaughter ) did make the medicine go down much easier.

 

[FINFAN]

vacation jar, and that includes change found in everyones cars too sice we all share the cars around our housethumbsup2

 

[bigbabyblues]

It goes in the change jar with the rest of our change. We use that for milk money, etc.

 

[grafxgirl]

We have a giant, empty pretzel container where we put change we find.

 

[PollyannaMom]

All change found in the laundry belongs to the one doing the wash - and that's usually me! I even keep a little metal bank with Disney characters on it in the laundry room. I'll empty it before vacation, and take the money with me, earmarked specifically for a treat or souvenier that I would otherwise pass up.

We also have a pretty jar on a shelf in the living room that DH and I both put change in when it's more than we want to carry. We dip into it if we need coins, and eventually roll what's left - usually in December, as we have a loose tradition of buying the Christmas tree with it.

 

[luv2sew]

We put all loose coins daily into....anything we can find to hold it...usually plastic cups. Then around vacation time we count it and wrap it for our "pin" money on vacation....we just wrapped our coins from after our last trip to Disney in 2008 and we have over $600 (we have not wrapped our pennies yet).

Another thing I did for years (doesn't work well now anymore since many of our bills are automatic deductions from our accounts) was if I wrote a check out for an odd amount such as $3.27...I always rounded up to the next dollar and then at vacation time (I usually knew how much was accumulating) Any of the extra money that was in our checking account for at least 3 months was used (so for months my little extra tally was $100 and then it went up the last month to $130...I would keep the $30 there and the $100 we could use). I never knew that this would end up catching on for major credit cards....I was always chastised for doing this and not balancing my account to the penny by my MIL...

 

[DawnCt1]

I went to the bank yesterday. It was the first time in four years that I have taken change, all neatly wrapped, to the bank. They now no longer accept wrapped coins. They have a CHANGE MACHINE. Of course I didn't wrap everything the day before, I had wrapped coins over the last four years as I filled a bucket. I dumped those coins in that still needed wrappers, mostly quarters, unwrapped pennies, dimes and nickels and ended up with $759.01. Out of the bunch of coins there were several Canadian dimes, a couple of Canadian quarters, something that someone picked up in the Caribbean, but all in all, it was a good haul!

 

[cassiez76]

my husband has the most change. i find it everywhere. we have this ginormous cookie jar that is just for change...yet he can't seem to put the change in there

before we left for disney, i went change hunting and came up with $4.00 on the floor in our garage. $3.75 in my car and at least $20.00 throughout the house.

our jar totalled $81 in a year. it paid for almost all of our meal at coral reef! (we had cashed it in a year ago for the last disney trip).

so we don't really claim it, i just find it and put it away for our vacation!