all good things come to those who plagiarize. no? yeah, well, i’ll be thinking so when my knockoff of jena’s penny jar idea bears fruit.
i read her post (which has been subsequently deleted and replaced with this one) about her penny jar for saving up for something special she wanted and thought about how long it’s been since i actually saved up for something i wanted to buy for myself. i never do that anymore. i always just whip out mr. mastercard and pay it back later. sometimes much, much later.
what it the material thing i want more than anything else right now? the thing which can’t possibly be considered a necessity, yet i desire it regardless? yeah. you guessed it. a digital camera.
so, my plan is to save all my dimes in one jar and all my twoonies in another until such time as i have enough to buy it for cash money. i would save all my change, but i need loonies and quarters for laundry and i don’t seem to get enough nickels and pennies. although, what i do have of those will probably go into the digital camera savings shoebox. as i roll the coins up, i’m going to put them in a box and put them away until it’s full and too heavy to carry. i’m hoping that, maybe, by the summer i’ll have enough. but, i think i’m kidding myself if i think i can save $600 in change by then.
just think about how much i’ll appreciate this fucking camera if i ever get it! *grin*
We had a change jar to save for Florida (although we also threw in bills from time to time)… by the end we had $80-something in coins and a few hundred in bills. Funny how the little things can add up. And it was only a peanut butter jar!
Now we’re just working on refilling it…;)
I have been saving change for years now….but I didn’t have a goal in mind. Hmmm. I just saw a commercial for the best of the muppets on dvd. Perhaps I’ll get that.
You are serving the economy well. I wouldn’t have thought about it…
If I could only find that number now….
I throw change in a jug at home and the odd time when we’re broke and need food, I take it to the grocery store and stuff it in this large machine that seperates it and gives you a reciept for your cash. it takes 3% off the total, which I figure is a small price to pay to have someone roll it for me. I love that machine…
What we do at our place is save our change separately. All the quarters go into one jar because they get used frequently for laundry. All the rest of the change — dimes, pennies, nickels, and the rare escaping quarter — go into another jar to be saved for … whatever. When the misc. change jar is filled, it usually has about $100 in it. The quarter jar, when filled, has around $250 in it.
Fortunately, our bank has a change converting machine which charges 0%. They roll it for free, baby. :)