The money jar.

[reefsurfer]

Dont know about you guys, but i have a money jar(an old flowerpot)that i throw all my coins in whenever i have any in my pants or lying around at home.

Thought i should count all the coins today, i had $147 in it :icon25:
Guess its time for a night at the town again! :icon31:

[blood.angel]

Old ladies do that.
You are an old lady, right?

[inphlict]

Same shit here, I ussually put all the coins. In canada we got $1 & $2 in coin form so each month I get around $30-$50 for drinking. We also have machines that sort that shit out, but they do take 10% of the change. Better then anything else, changing pennies into bills is pointless.

[reefsurfer]

Old ladies do that.
You are an old lady, right?

You better get out of my way when im coming at ya in my motorized cart at 2 mph.

[bork[e]]

Yeah, I try to. Only problem is after a few dollars are in teh jar I'm like, "Aye, I'm just going to grab a dollar or so out and grab a coke on the way to work." Or, "If I get about $6 out I'll be going to the movies for free..." In a way...

So I've never been above 10 bucks prolly

[PhoeniX]

I have a half-gallon whisky bottle with loads of change in. Should have a couple of hundred (£) in there.

[R00k]

I've got an old gallon wine jar that's about halfway full now. I'm sure there's around 50 bucks or so in it. I'm not going to touch it until it's full.

[Nightshade]

I have a five-gallon water cooler jug with about three inches of change and assorted bills in it. If it ever gets full, I doubt I'd be able to lift it. Man, that'd be a shitload of money though.

[Dr_Watson]

i just throw all my change into the door try in my car... then use it to buy car-washes, fast food etc...
i hate carrying change.
they should do away with it.

[losCHUNK]

£40 in my last one (2 mnths ago) this ones already double the size

[Foo]

It's almost like you don't realise that the money you take out of that jar is in fact money you earned previously.

It's not free money.


Yeah I know, this is 'like, duh'. But never saw the point (that's not true, I have always seen the point, I just think it's rooted in a mistake in reasoning).

The deep mind workings of the change jar, ey?

[losCHUNK]

that is soooooo deep

but yea, whats in my pot is what wouldve been thrown away in the before

[Foo]

Why would it have been thrown away? Surely, it would have been used to make transactions which INSTEAD, you got more money out of the cash machine to perform?

I'm not taking the piss or nuffin, I'd like to know if I 'get it' or not, because it dun't make sense to me.

[losCHUNK]

well all the money in my change pot is coppers

so what i wouldve done before is disposed of them in a hobo's hand or sucked them up in the vacum cleaner, dont think ive ever paid for anything in coppers

[Foo]

Yeah that's a bind, I grant you....

When you start paying for things in coppers it's the embarrasing shuffle of digging out the right amount and holding up the line. I still do it anyway

once every couple of weeks you can bag some up, take em into your local shop or whatever, and swap em for pound coins... saves them a trip to the bank for more change, most 'human' places (read, not a spar) seem to be cool with that and even encourage it. Almost zero effort, too.

[Massive Quasars]

Foo you back to uni?

[Foo]

Ended up not leaving. Taking a placement year... the whole computing thing started to get to me because it's so passive... so I ended up on a placement doing IT support in a steel mill. Computers and liquid metal is a fucking great combination

Cheers for asking.

Yourself sir?

[SplishSplash]

I have a money jar but I never take money out of it. Probably because it'd only be like 4€ or so.

[glossy]

i have about AUD$30 in 5-, 10-, and 20-cent peices in various containers in my room (empty grog bottles, tins, mugs etc), anything bigger than 20cents goes in my wallet and gets used.

[Guest]

I use an old fishbowl. No idea how much is in it. Probably around $50. Was emptied not too long ago.

[reefsurfer]

Sure its your money, but its always fun when you empty taht jar/pot to see how much money you got in it, because its still money that you havent "counted" in with your economy.

Im gonna do like R00k and dont touch them til its full, probably take a year..

[Guest]

I have an old WW2 army flask that I put my change into.

[Guest]

It's almost like you don't realise that the money you take out of that jar is in fact money you earned previously.

It's not free money.


Yeah I know, this is 'like, duh'. But never saw the point (that's not true, I have always seen the point, I just think it's rooted in a mistake in reasoning).

The deep mind workings of the change jar, ey?

I don't think of it as free money. I think of it more as keeping yourself from spending all your money at one time. If you keep it in your pocket you're more likely to spend it. In the jar you're less likely to go through the trouble of digging it out until there's a substantial amount.

[Transient]

I throw away all the pennies I get (bloody useless, they are) and toss the silver change into an old Snapple jar. When it fills, I'll take it out, go to a store, then buy something in all change.

[mik0rs]

I only put the odd £1 and £2 coins away in a closed tin can (aside from the coinslot) now and again, nice way to save money.