Regarding that "jar" where you toss all your loose change at the end of the day...

georgiacop50

Have you noticed as the years pass, it is taking longer and longer for the jar to "fill" to the point where it is time to cash them in?

I have. It is very convincing evidence that we are indeed progressing towards a cash-less society.

Just an observation.

ajman

Interesting.

OldEastside

I went through that jar the other day and
found 12 wheaties from 1934 to 1957 and
1 1905 Indian penny plus a 64D silver dime

Steve

scottgardener

My "jar" is a set of coin tubes. My coins get sorted going in, and this is where I catch varieties and dates--mostly pre-1982 pennies. My stack of coins fills pretty quickly but I still use cash for most transactions below $20, to avoid cluttering my checkbook logs with loads of micropayments. (I usually use a check card rather than credit.)

Most of the time, I am taking the coins over to the bank to get more portable cash to take over to a coin shop, to buy coins. I think of it as a coin exchange program.

droopyd

I'm always pulling out quarters for laundry, parking, etc.

Also, I tend to pay with exact change when I can so it doesn't fill up as quickly.

Bochiman

<< <i>I went through that jar the other day and
found 12 wheaties from 1934 to 1957 and
1 1905 Indian penny plus a 64D silver dime

Steve >>



Sounds like it is taking you a REALLY long time to fill your jar


As for my jar(s)....nope, still fill them about the same. I prefer cash for small purchases.
I know people who use their cards for a $2 purchase at McDs or some other fast food or just a drink, etc.
I don't like a lot of small purchases like that cluttering up my monthly statement, which I do go over line-by-line (I have caught 2 attempts by some scammers to put fraudulent charges on my bills over the last 10 years by going line-by-line).

LindeDad

I'm in the taking a lot longer to fill club and agree that my using the DC is the main reason plus be retired I'm less likely now to stop off for the little purchases.

19Lyds

<< <i>Have you noticed as the years pass, it is taking longer and longer for the jar to "fill" to the point where it is time to cash them in?

I have. It is very convincing evidence that we are indeed progressing towards a cash-less society.

Just an observation. >>

IMO, we will never be a cashless society since "cash" is the basis for electronic forms of payment.

Yes, debit and credit cards appear to be convenient methods of payment but not all retailers are setup to handle debit/credit cards. Flea Markets, garage sales, small businesses, all rely upon cash as the preferred method of payment.

Can you imagine the Cub/Boy/Girl Scouts going door to door selling popcorn/cookies and only accepting debit/credit cards or checks?

What about paying the kid across the street $15 to mow your lawn? Babysitters?

Besides, cash, doesn't cost the seller 3% off the top.

Cakes

I have 3 jars, one small one for anything that I want to check later, a medium just for pennies, and a large Woodford reserve for the rest of the change that never fills up because my 17 year old son constantly takes from it.

Crazy4Coins

It only took me 15 years to fill up my 5 gallon glass water bottle....

It will probably take another 15 to search through them all now....

mkman123

I rarely use cards, I'm a cash person so I fill up my small jars fairly quickly.

mrearlygold

Alas, yes. But I do have a 5 gallon container for pennies ( 90% full ) that I've been throwing pennies into for at least 20 years and a 5 gallon for quarters, nickels, etc all separate and filling nicely. I might have to live to a 125 years old in order to finish them however

ambro51

Right before they moved our 16X20 storage shed into position...I went inside and filled a mason jar with loose change from a few jars. Put a slip of paper with my name and date on it, andout it smack dab in the middle of the shed base. ..well, its been there 3 years so far, with no chance IM moving the shed!!

mingot

YES. I have a huge change jar that collected for about 11 years, starting in '99. Within a few years it was 75% full. When I finally got around to rolling it and cashing it in a few months ago it was only about 90% full. I did find a silver dime and a few wheats. I was very disappointed that I missed them the first time around. "how the hell could I have put silver in here?!"

georgiacop50

Obviously, the little woman must have done that.

Windycity

Cashed one in this week. Must be your habits have changed. I still use the debit card mostly to get cash out of the bank so I still pay with cash and through all change in the bucket. So my habits haven't changed. Those using debit cards for most purchases will see far less pocket change.

pontiacinf

one 5 gallon bottle filled with cents, another half full and
one 3 quarters of the way with nickles, dimes, quarters.

cents I never cash in but the fosilver on a basis of about every 2 years.

DrBuster

I use cash 99% of the time so I tend to put some in the jar every day.

After rolling a few years worth by hand in June 2010:



I cashed that in and bought a set of tires for my truck and one of these:



June of this year I cashed in what I had since the tire day and bought my jeep a new stereo and dash speakers, about $180 is what it came out to be for a year. Sitting on about $75ish rolled right now since then, and I don't put dollar coins in there.

shorecoll

I told the story once here of my sister who got laid off from a factory after 25 years and was working her way through nursing school, always broke and miserable. After she got out and got a good job, she asked my to come help her count her "change". In a closet she had SIX 5-gallon water bottles full. She still hasn't counted them all but I estimate she has over $5k in those jars, plus in the one she did roll she found a VG 1915 Barber quarter.

pf70collector

Copper Cents and Nickels may be the new silver. Soon these will be gone from circulation and probably be replaced by plastics. Like silver coinage, copper cents and nickels will be permitted to be melted in the future.

DrBuster

<< <i>I told the story once here of my sister who got laid off from a factory after 25 years and was working her way through nursing school, always broke and miserable. After she got out and got a good job, she asked my to come help her count her "change". In a closet she had SIX 5-gallon water bottles full. She still hasn't counted them all but I estimate she has over $5k in those jars, plus in the one she did roll she found a VG 1915 Barber quarter. >>



There's probably more than than 5k in there. I think my brother had one of those full and counted it and it was close to $3000 or so.

kerikow

<< <i>Alas, yes. But I do have a 5 gallon container for pennies ( 90% full ) that I've been throwing pennies into for at least 20 years and a 5 gallon for quarters, nickels, etc all separate and filling nicely. I might have to live to a 125 years old in order to finish them however >>



63092 pennies fill a 5 gallon