Loose Change

Do you save your loose change every day? I'm not talking about bills, just coins. If you don't, you should start, and if you do, then you know how fast it adds up! Well, if you don't pay with a debit card for the things you buy.

Try putting your coins from the day in a jar or bag for one month. At the end of the month, see how much you collected, you'll probably be surprised!

I've been doing this for years and every so often I take the coins to a bank to cash in. Yes, there are Coinstar machines, but they charge you for their service, which is fair. But, there are banks that have coin counters and they will usually give you the service for free! Sometimes they say you need to have an account, you can call and ask them.

I was thinking about this because there is a blog called changepot.blogspot.com I saw it on some news site today. They don't collect their own change, instead the keep track of money the find throughout the day. Once they reach a certain amount they are going to donate it. This is a really neat idea.

So, I have some change I need to cash in and I'm going to apply it to my WF debt! :)

P.S. I rarely don't pick up change on the ground, including pennies!