Do you acutally USE coins as they were intended? - A sexist question

relayer

Women carry pocketbooks with compartments for change, so their answers don't count.

But when you go out in morning (for those here who actually leave their homes) do you take any pocket change with you in order to assist in the commerce you do during the day.

For me, change is a one way street. It only comes in and I never leave the house with it (unless it's rolled up going to the bank).
When I'm out the door I only have keys (well, also a lighter) in my pocket.

So when a cashier asks if I have 3 cents, the answer is no. But I do wind up with 97 cents to take home for the coin jar.

paigowjohnny

I roll up my accumulated dimes and nickels for use in the vending machines here at work...
Quarters are saved for the laundry machines
Pennies get rolled up and put in the church collection
Sacs and Kennedies, if received, are used to shim a wobbly table

Sphinx357

Asside from taking quarters to work for the vending machines, no. If an item is $12.28 I give the person $13 or a $20 or whatever and have a pocket full of change when I come home. Mainly because I like to look through it.

cladking

I always carry a few dollars in quarters "just in case". They are not often spent
but can be indispensible if needed. I have a change bucket which goes to the
bank when it starts to get too heavy for the tellers. All coins are checked.

AmericanSilverEagleCoins

Actually in the winter time i keep my change in my winter jacket instead of the jar on my dresser. So when it's cold enough to wear my parka I do carry change and reach into that pocket quite a bit for coins. In the summer when I'm in shorts I don't bother with coins when I leave the house

nwcs

I always spend change. Not all the change I get, but a lot of it.

mgoodm3

Change just piles up for me.

Cladiator

I always carry a handfull of Sacagaweas or SBA's to use throughout the day.

djm

I never carry change either. I seldom even use $1 bills. It just takes too long to count out the exact change at a store. The cashiers can do it alot faster than the customer.

I'm one of the guys the mint hates, I have $500-600 in change. It never seems to make it to the banks, besides the banks where I live don't pay the premium like they do in other parts of the country.

jbsteven

I keep dollar bills that I get everyday in change. I have a stack about 18 inches high so far.

Yupp

Newbie here. As I get change while out and about, I put it in my car ashtray. When I go in a convenience store or fast food place, I reach in and grab a handful to use. Hate to admit this, but I also finger through it in stop & go traffic jams looking for errors or silver.

Stuart

No, I do not use coins for sex -- or did I perhaps misunderstand the question

Neptune

Speaking for my husband - he leaves all change in his basket, except the quarters which he takes to work for the vending machine. I go through all his change once in awhile, sort and roll to trade in for more to treasure hunt for my granchilluns Whitmans. I always keep a little change in case I need to make an emergency phone call, but besides that, as a woman, I don't carry change much either.

Conder101

My brother calls me a walking mint as I almost always have several dollars woth of change on me, and I do dump a portion of my change at home every day. Right now I have $5.29 and a counterfeit 1843 half dollar in pockets. (And I spent a dollars worth of change about an hour ago.)

sumnom

I use coins to purchase things.

clackamas

I put my change in a jar and when the jar is full I roll the coins up and spend the rolls like bills. I do spend a little in my car for stuff but the majorit of stuff is cleaned out once a year in rolls.

itsnotjustme

I normally have a large amount of change in the center console of my car. This is from change I receive, as well as rolls of new coins I searched for high grades. When I run errands, I grab a handful and use it. Where I often use a lot is the post office vending machines. You can move a whole lot of nickels as long as no one is in line behind you!

remumc

I save my nickels, dimes, and quarters for my weekly poker game. I usually have a couple hundred dollars worth. Depends on if I've been winning of loosing.

Regards,

Wayne

razorface1027

I carry change in me pockets for one reason...to purchase a $1 or $2 lottery ticket after I've exhausted the paper money in my pocket dreaming that the $1 or $2 bucks in change will purchase me "The Big one." Sad huh! They say it's a sickness, and surely compatible to the exorbitant monies I spend on coins...

fishcooker

Well since I was silly enough to get a $500 box of halves, which turnd out to be about $497 worth of junk, I use change to buy lunch and gas about every day. I'm the "half dollar guy" now.

Besides that, I usually spend my change on gasoline. Given an $8.28, and I'll dump 28 pennies.

Still every couple years the piggy bank gets full, and then I'm stuck with Coinstar. Last fall I took my 1/2 gallon of pennies and bought some high-quality steaks. Kinda like gettin' 'em for free!

jdimmick

I carry change in my pocket that I accumulate during the day. Any left when I get home, I place it on the dresser till the next morning then carry it out again. Although, I dont let it get to be too much, becuase I always give the change in increments to get the larger denominations so that I dont have a bucnh of pennies, nickles and such.

Ez: if something is say 7.87, then I will pay with 10.12 and get back two ones and a quarter!

Prometheus183

I throw all mine in a plastic water jug. When the jug gets full, I ponder what to do,...

Cash it in and use it for poker funds at Wendover, NV.
Cash it in and use it for gift money for someone I really like.
Seal it up and use it as a boat ancher.
Use it to buy a single coin worth at least as much as the lot.

Well, I don't get to Wendover that often, my wife says I don't like anyone, I don't have a boat. So, I go with a single coin.

Dog97

Since they raised the price of beer from $1.75 to $2.00 at my beerjoint I bring home about 10 fewer quarters everyday.
The change I bring home goes into a large bowl on my file cabinet, and no, I don't search it nor leave the house with it the next day. I give it to my kid for her lunch $$ at school and I give the pennies back to the government by dropping 600 of them in to the stamp machine @ the PO and getting me a book of stamps.

Shamika

Yes, I actually use coins. Whenever I pay cash for something, I have coins at the ready.