Spare change!!!

saleengrl76 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:08 PM

Spare change!!!

WOW, my FH and I have been saving our change up for the past 3 months and we just counted $165!!!!!!!

there was more that we didnt count yet, but i think thats a great start and a quick way to make a few bucks!

we still have 7 months til the wedding, I cant wait to see the final count!

jgl Posted: May 16, 2007 10:09 PM

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Posted by saleengrl76

WOW, my FH and I have been saving our change up for the past 3 months and we just counted $165!!!!!!!

there was more that we didnt count yet, but i think thats a great start and a quick way to make a few bucks!

we still have 7 months til the wedding, I cant wait to see the final count!

I love that!! woohoo!!

when you are ready go to commerse they don't take a %age and you DONT have to roll them!

Ive been doing it for years i have close to $1000

ILOVEBRIAN2008 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:09 PM

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thats great! we should try that!

dream426 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:10 PM

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FH and I are doing that. We are up to about $125

saleengrl76 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:14 PM

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this is going towards our spending money for the honeymoon!

cds58019 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:16 PM

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We've been collecting our change since we got engaged. We use an empty Poland Spring jug (the big ones that go upside down on the little machine thing) and it is practically full. I cant wait to see how much we have in there!

Tori9299 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:30 PM

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I have heard that saving your change is great, but do not to let it sit for 2 long in the house. You should cash it in and put it in an account to collect interest. Some banks let you open a CD with any amount of $.

LoveisBliss Posted: May 16, 2007 10:32 PM

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awesome!

DCLM726 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:32 PM

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I have been saving my spare change too. Every pay check I get $50 taken out and put into quarters and I dump it in the jug that I have. We are gonna use the change for spending money for our HM.

Shell84 Posted: May 16, 2007 10:36 PM

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FH and I have been doing that since we got engaged. How wonder how much money we have in it now. we call it the wedding fund.

kellysue Posted: May 16, 2007 11:07 PM

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We started that too. We each have a jug and we will see what it gets us. FH is a bit skeptical....but going along with it. He isnt the saving type...so i am trying to start him off small.

JACK808 Posted: May 16, 2007 11:12 PM

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Posted by Tori9299

I have heard that saving your change is great, but do not to let it sit for 2 long in the house. You should cash it in and put it in an account to collect interest. Some banks let you open a CD with any amount of $.

Yes, you should definitely empty out your spare change periodically into some type of high interest savings account or CD!! Great advice!

Bella77 Posted: May 16, 2007 11:28 PM

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I never thought of putting it in a CD. I used to end up with a lot of change but ever since I cut back on my spending I don't have as much. Love the penny arcade at Commerce though!

failurebydsign Posted: May 17, 2007 02:23 AM

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my mom does this and every 5 years goes on a huge vacation..she gets about 4 or 5 thousand dollars in change

MrsD71208 Posted: May 17, 2007 06:43 AM

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Antallicia Posted: May 17, 2007 06:54 AM

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What a good idea! I think I'll start straight away!

MrsJones2B Posted: May 17, 2007 08:01 AM

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We need to start doing that too.

Here's an Idea: start a spare change thread where we count our change and post it. It'll be a fun and productive competition

tdebe Posted: May 17, 2007 08:13 AM

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I save my spare change, but it takes me sooo long just to get a hundred bucks. I use my debit card for everything so I rarely have cash

KarinAmanda Posted: May 17, 2007 09:29 AM

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yay, its sooo easy to save this way. every morning at work, i toss my spare change from the day before into a big round glass vase ... everyone knows its the 'wedding fund' so they drop change in also

cherish83 Posted: May 17, 2007 09:38 AM

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FH and i do that too. MY aunt bought me a PIggy bank that has Palm trees on it and says Honeymoon fund. When you put change in it, it plays the wedding march. We actually had to cash change in because it was getting too heavy. But we put all the bills back in. We had almost 150. We were so shocked that it added up so quickly. It definitely an easy way to save to extra money.