My homeowners association has a coin operated washroom. We had the hassle of taking the coins in for deposit. Luckily the downtown bank had a coin sorter/counter. We would take load in, they would run through their machine and make deposit for us. Good luck with your pile. Shannon
I did this with a x-large cake tin, took about 4 years to fill it and it weighed an absolute ton, I invested in a coin sorter (which saved about 10 hours of my life) and came out the bank with 450 quid (-20 for the sorter) and one furious queue behind me lol. But i blew it all on a spank new surfboard and the rest went towards my holiday spending money, its great cos it feels like I got it for free as it was only spare change I put in to keep my wallet from bulging. but I guess the old saying goes.. look after the pennies and the pennies will look after the pounds!
Shawn you can donate them to my kids college fund, since at this point I won't be much help to all six of them!!!
I used to throw all the coins into a cupboard every night when I got home.....got to the stage where I would only spend notes so I could keep the coins . But it adds up real quick, every so often I would lug them to a bank in a briefcase, I could barely carry it, and cash them in then go out and buy something like a TV...Video...or something like that, it usually aded up to around 1k. As Martaay said, it's like you got it for free. I eventually got over it but to this day I have never ever spent a 50c coin, I have a pile similar to Shawns in a cupboard in my bathroom. Actually they are turning out to be worth more than face value as I probably have dozens of full sets of every 50c Australian coins.
Aw, I wish I could collect spare change. But what with smoking all these years I never had a spare 1p let alone a spare 50 cents.
=oO I resent that comment, Dct. It's already been a few weeks i'll have you know. Even yesterday I went clubbing and got amazingly rat arsed I didn't touch a ciggy. Have a bit of faith. *mumbles under her breath*
Yes you shouldn't. Now bend down and kiss my feet meer minion. Talking of minions Where the hell is Minstrel?? No one will give me a straight answer on this question.....
Hehehe... not a bad suggestion, except the connectors would be long thin pieces of wire, so in reality that's only going to use up maybe 6 or 7 quarters.
If you want, i can take those quarters off of your hands, i have a change counter and sorter and would gladly roll them and spend them. If i had it my way, id buy a billiards table!!!! j/k have fun with all those quarters.. p.s. an idea would be to actually have a raffle throughout the forum to see actually how many quarters there are, and whoever is the closet should get a banner ad on your website (one year free). just having fun with the topic, sorry!
change them into pennies and then compare to this chart >http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/1.asp page 17 is pretty impresive
First of all have you rolled around in them and made a quarter Angel? You should get a bullhorn, a speaker system that can play loud ‘ice-cream truck’ music, and a big Digital Point sign and put them all in your car. Then drive around the neighborhood with the ice cream music playing and toss the quarters out to any kids that come up. Then with the bullhorn you can yell out phrases like “Education and Digital Point are the future.†Or you could have all the kids in your area compete in an American Gladiators style competition with the winner taking all the quarters. Why kids? Kids love quarters. Or every time you meet someone and you shake their hand pass them a quarter. Tell them this is just a little something to remember me. Or use them to tip people you normally wouldn’t. Like if you’re at Circuit City and one of the guys there shows you were something is, take a quarter out and say “This is for your help.†Or you could set up a lemonade stand and sell your lemonade for -$.25. So when people come up to buy it you give them lemonade and a quarter.