Tracy wrote:

> Kathleen wrote:
>
>>
>> My husband and I throw our change into a giant jar. When it starts
>> looking pretty full we count and roll it up while watching TV. Over
>> the years we've bought a $2,000 CD for an IRA, bookcases, plane fare
>> to Phoenix for a family emergency, Valentine's Day donations to the
>> American Heart Association at our kids' schools (a penny for your
>> heart!) and two different trampolines.
>>
>> The funds accumulate more slowly than they used to - the kids raid it
>> for Slurpee money.
>>
>
> I have one of those water cooler bottles - 5 gallons? - filled maybe a
> fifth of the way with mostly silver. There has got to be a couple-few
> hundred dollars in there. The DH has periodically taken money from it
> for trips to Foxwoods Casino but for the most part it has been left alone.
>
> I really should wrap it up and put it in the bank. None of the banks
> around me have free coin counting and I will not put it in one of those
> coinstar machines.
>
> Tracy
> (who is going to the bank today to get some coin wrappers - a lot of
> coin wrappers)

Good for you. IIRC, Coinstar charges 7.5% for totaling up your coinage.

Blow that!

Count and roll it up yourself while watching something mindless.