In article 9>,
Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We rarely carry cash, but when we do I usually toss any small change into
> the dish. What I like even better is having those electronic change
> counters in the stores where you dump in change and it gives you a voucher
> that you can use at the register for purchase or redemption. We used to
> accumulate large amounts of change and I refused to roll it, so I'm
> willing to pay the percentage they charge for using the machine.

I accumulate large amounts of coins too. Every night when I get home, I
dump my pocket change into a plastic container that I got from a casino
several years ago. This sometimes includes dollar coins that I get from
stamp machines and PATCO change machines. PATCO is the public rail
system that I sometimes use to commute between my home in Southern New
Jersey and Philadelphia.

Every few months, I deposit my change into a savings account at Commerce
Bank where they all have a free coin counting machine. I refuse to pay
to use an in-store coin counting machine. If Commerce Bank and its free
coin counting service was not available, I would simply spend my pocket
change and not accumulate enough to warrant paying someone else to count
it for me.