500 Euro note
Dec 1st 2006, 11:59 pm
#151
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Re: 500 Euro note
"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet
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> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:41:04 +0100, Giovanni Drogo
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Martin Bienwald wrote:
>>> But how would they react if you used a 10-euro note and ten 2-cent coins
>>> to pay EUR 10.20, for example?
>>Here they'd probably thank you for refilling their reserve of 2-cent.
> The other day in the supermarket line ahead of me, a woman pulled out
> all her change, looking for something like 30 cents. The cashier saw
> the pile of change and said, "Ooooh! May I take these little ones?"
> and proceeded to count out the 30 cents herself in coins of 5 cents
> and under.
> Many elderly people around here hand their coin purses to cashiers and
> ask the cashiers to help themselves, either because they don't have
> good eyeglasses or because they still don't understand the "new"
> coins.
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Many groceries here in Sweden including mine now have machines for
coin-counting.
As a customer you're supposed to drop the coins in the machine and if you
so wish you can drop all your coins.
There's a similar machine for the notes but the cashier handles the notes.
The machines calculate the change and the coins are received in a bowl.
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> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:41:04 +0100, Giovanni Drogo
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Martin Bienwald wrote:
>>> But how would they react if you used a 10-euro note and ten 2-cent coins
>>> to pay EUR 10.20, for example?
>>Here they'd probably thank you for refilling their reserve of 2-cent.
> The other day in the supermarket line ahead of me, a woman pulled out
> all her change, looking for something like 30 cents. The cashier saw
> the pile of change and said, "Ooooh! May I take these little ones?"
> and proceeded to count out the 30 cents herself in coins of 5 cents
> and under.
> Many elderly people around here hand their coin purses to cashiers and
> ask the cashiers to help themselves, either because they don't have
> good eyeglasses or because they still don't understand the "new"
> coins.
----------
Many groceries here in Sweden including mine now have machines for
coin-counting.
As a customer you're supposed to drop the coins in the machine and if you
so wish you can drop all your coins.
There's a similar machine for the notes but the cashier handles the notes.
The machines calculate the change and the coins are received in a bowl.
Dec 2nd 2006, 1:31 am
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Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
Hello, Lennart!
You wrote on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:59:38 GMT:
??>>
??>> Many elderly people around here hand their coin purses to
??>> cashiers and ask the cashiers to help themselves, either
??>> because they don't have good eyeglasses or because they
??>> still don't understand the "new" coins.
LP> ----------
LP> Many groceries here in Sweden including mine now have
LP> machines for coin-counting.
LP> As a customer you're supposed to drop the coins in the
LP> machine and if you so wish you can drop all your coins.
LP> There's a similar machine for the notes but the cashier
LP> handles the notes. The machines calculate the change and
LP> the coins are received in a bowl.
I find it amazing that we bother with so many coins of
relatively low value. In days gone, by people got along quite
well without them. For example, the smallest coin in the US has
been the penny (or cent) for about 150 years. In 1913, the first
year for which I have CPI data, a penny would have been worth
about 20 cents in present day money. There is much sentimental
resistance in the US to dropping the penny but, based on
history, we could easily drop all coins less than the quarter
(25 cents). (A major supporter of the drive to keep the penny is
the zinc industry and that's understandable since the largest
component of the US penny is zinc!)
I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
useful for parking meters.
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
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You wrote on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:59:38 GMT:
??>>
??>> Many elderly people around here hand their coin purses to
??>> cashiers and ask the cashiers to help themselves, either
??>> because they don't have good eyeglasses or because they
??>> still don't understand the "new" coins.
LP> ----------
LP> Many groceries here in Sweden including mine now have
LP> machines for coin-counting.
LP> As a customer you're supposed to drop the coins in the
LP> machine and if you so wish you can drop all your coins.
LP> There's a similar machine for the notes but the cashier
LP> handles the notes. The machines calculate the change and
LP> the coins are received in a bowl.
I find it amazing that we bother with so many coins of
relatively low value. In days gone, by people got along quite
well without them. For example, the smallest coin in the US has
been the penny (or cent) for about 150 years. In 1913, the first
year for which I have CPI data, a penny would have been worth
about 20 cents in present day money. There is much sentimental
resistance in the US to dropping the penny but, based on
history, we could easily drop all coins less than the quarter
(25 cents). (A major supporter of the drive to keep the penny is
the zinc industry and that's understandable since the largest
component of the US penny is zinc!)
I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
useful for parking meters.
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not
Dec 2nd 2006, 2:52 am
#153
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>useful for parking meters.
I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
them as I go along.
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>useful for parking meters.
I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
them as I go along.
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
Dec 3rd 2006, 8:05 am
#154
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Re: 500 Euro note
On 2006-11-22, tim(yet another new home) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Getting 100s in Germany is common.
I have never received a 100 euro note from a German ATM (I always withdraw
250 or 260 euro). Austrian ATMs spew out as many 100s as they can get away
with, but not the German.
> Getting 100s in Germany is common.
I have never received a 100 euro note from a German ATM (I always withdraw
250 or 260 euro). Austrian ATMs spew out as many 100s as they can get away
with, but not the German.
Dec 3rd 2006, 9:19 am
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Re: 500 Euro note
"Jesper Lauridsen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 2006-11-22, tim(yet another new home) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Getting 100s in Germany is common.
> I have never received a 100 euro note from a German ATM (I always withdraw
> 250 or 260 euro). Austrian ATMs spew out as many 100s as they can get away
> with, but not the German.
I always withdrew 500, or 1000 if it would let me.
I paid all my bills in cash and I tried to make as few
trips as possible.
50s were the norm, but when it was low it issued 100s
tim
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> On 2006-11-22, tim(yet another new home) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Getting 100s in Germany is common.
> I have never received a 100 euro note from a German ATM (I always withdraw
> 250 or 260 euro). Austrian ATMs spew out as many 100s as they can get away
> with, but not the German.
I always withdrew 500, or 1000 if it would let me.
I paid all my bills in cash and I tried to make as few
trips as possible.
50s were the norm, but when it was low it issued 100s
tim
Dec 4th 2006, 1:33 am
#156
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Re: 500 Euro note
Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
> On 2006-11-22, tim(yet another new home) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Getting 100s in Germany is common.
>
> I have never received a 100 euro note from a German ATM (I always withdraw
> 250 or 260 euro). Austrian ATMs spew out as many 100s as they can get away
> with, but not the German.
There are a few German banks whose ATMs give out 100 euro notes. Most German
ATMs don't stock anything above 50 euros.
... Martin
> On 2006-11-22, tim(yet another new home) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Getting 100s in Germany is common.
>
> I have never received a 100 euro note from a German ATM (I always withdraw
> 250 or 260 euro). Austrian ATMs spew out as many 100s as they can get away
> with, but not the German.
There are a few German banks whose ATMs give out 100 euro notes. Most German
ATMs don't stock anything above 50 euros.
... Martin
Dec 4th 2006, 7:28 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>useful for parking meters.
> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
> them as I go along.
It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
pockets. Women spend their coins.
Marianne
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>useful for parking meters.
> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
> them as I go along.
It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
pockets. Women spend their coins.
Marianne
Dec 4th 2006, 8:28 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:28:37 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>.... Women spend their coins.
Then why do all the women I've known in 60 years always seem to have at least
100 pennies in their change purses?
-- Larry
>.... Women spend their coins.
Then why do all the women I've known in 60 years always seem to have at least
100 pennies in their change purses?
-- Larry
Dec 4th 2006, 8:35 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:28:37 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
>Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
>3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
>pockets. Women spend their coins.
One of my daughters always emptied her small change into a desk
drawer. Her sister used to get those paper coin rolls from the bank
and wrap them up and cash them in (not surreptitiously).
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
>It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
>Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
>3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
>pockets. Women spend their coins.
One of my daughters always emptied her small change into a desk
drawer. Her sister used to get those paper coin rolls from the bank
and wrap them up and cash them in (not surreptitiously).
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
Dec 4th 2006, 8:56 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
"Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
>> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>>useful for parking meters.
>> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
>> them as I go along.
> It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
> Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
> 3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
> pockets. Women spend their coins.
I disagree. Women put the coins in their purse and
accumulate lots of them.
Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
their change.
tim
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> "B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
>> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>>useful for parking meters.
>> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
>> them as I go along.
> It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
> Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
> 3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
> pockets. Women spend their coins.
I disagree. Women put the coins in their purse and
accumulate lots of them.
Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
their change.
tim
Dec 4th 2006, 9:16 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:28:37 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
>> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>>useful for parking meters.
>> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
>> them as I go along.
>It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
>Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
>3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
>pockets. Women spend their coins.
>Marianne
My wife and I appear to have suffered from gender reversal.
After the trips I keep finding coins from 10 different
currencies - not including Oz - in various purses, pockets
and cases.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
>> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>>useful for parking meters.
>> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
>> them as I go along.
>It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
>Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
>3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
>pockets. Women spend their coins.
>Marianne
My wife and I appear to have suffered from gender reversal.
After the trips I keep finding coins from 10 different
currencies - not including Oz - in various purses, pockets
and cases.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
--
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/
latest: Mycenae and the Argolid
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/
Dec 4th 2006, 9:25 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
Hello, tim.....!
You wrote on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:43 -0000:
t> Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
t> to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
t> their change.
I know a number of people in their 30s, including some
relatives, who discard coins into a jar at night. They tell me
that they will take them to the bank "one of these days" but the
day never seems to come!
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
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not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not
You wrote on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:43 -0000:
t> Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
t> to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
t> their change.
I know a number of people in their 30s, including some
relatives, who discard coins into a jar at night. They tell me
that they will take them to the bank "one of these days" but the
day never seems to come!
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not
Dec 4th 2006, 10:04 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:25:16 -0500, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>Hello, tim.....!
>You wrote on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:43 -0000:
> t> Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
> t> to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
> t> their change.
>I know a number of people in their 30s, including some
>relatives, who discard coins into a jar at night. They tell me
>that they will take them to the bank "one of these days" but the
>day never seems to come!
I do it when the jar is full. Usually amounts to enough for dinner for
two.
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<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>Hello, tim.....!
>You wrote on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:43 -0000:
> t> Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
> t> to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
> t> their change.
>I know a number of people in their 30s, including some
>relatives, who discard coins into a jar at night. They tell me
>that they will take them to the bank "one of these days" but the
>day never seems to come!
I do it when the jar is full. Usually amounts to enough for dinner for
two.
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Dec 4th 2006, 11:23 am
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
"Alan S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:28:37 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]. ..
>>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
>>> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>>>useful for parking meters.
>>> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
>>> them as I go along.
>>It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
>>Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
>>3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
>>pockets. Women spend their coins.
>>Marianne
> My wife and I appear to have suffered from gender reversal.
> After the trips I keep finding coins from 10 different
> currencies - not including Oz - in various purses, pockets
> and cases.
Well, maybe I extrapolated too much from my husband.
Marianne
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> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:28:37 -0800, "Mimi" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]. ..
>>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:31:56 -0500, "James Silverton"
>>> <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>>>>I might admit that I do sort out all my change less than a
>>>>quarter every night and periodically take the small coins to my
>>>>bank which does not charge for counting. Quarters are still
>>>>useful for parking meters.
>>> I've never had a problem with small coins accumulating. I just spend
>>> them as I go along.
>>It's a tertiary sexual characteristic -- like refusing to ask directions.
>>Men empty their pockets of change and never pick it up again. And, for a
>>3.58 bill, they just offer a twenty and never check the change in their
>>pockets. Women spend their coins.
>>Marianne
> My wife and I appear to have suffered from gender reversal.
> After the trips I keep finding coins from 10 different
> currencies - not including Oz - in various purses, pockets
> and cases.
Well, maybe I extrapolated too much from my husband.
Marianne
Dec 4th 2006, 3:42 pm
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Re: Smallest Coins. Was: 500 Euro note
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:25:16 -0500, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>Hello, tim.....!
>You wrote on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:43 -0000:
> t> Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
> t> to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
> t> their change.
>I know a number of people in their 30s, including some
>relatives, who discard coins into a jar at night. They tell me
>that they will take them to the bank "one of these days" but the
>day never seems to come!
Like a lot of men, I dump my coins in a jar. In my case, a BIG jar.
Not a jar really, but a plastic jack-o-lantern. Its demonic leer makes
me happy and I feed it every day. About five years ago, someone broke
into my home and took all my coins (among other things), leaving me
with the jack-o-lantern, which I now treasure.
Last month, the jack-o-lantern was too full. Every coin I tossed into
it bounced back out. *sigh*. Time to visit the coin counting machine.
I was very happy to get about $230 in cash, without even emptying my
jack-o-lantern!
Keeping cash around is a bad investment - even savings accounts are
costly. But I am happy with my jack-o-lantern. Fuggit.
- TR
- can't stand having coins jangling in my pockets.
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
>Hello, tim.....!
>You wrote on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:56:43 -0000:
> t> Men put them in their pocket and are thus motived
> t> to spend them. I know of no men who just discard
> t> their change.
>I know a number of people in their 30s, including some
>relatives, who discard coins into a jar at night. They tell me
>that they will take them to the bank "one of these days" but the
>day never seems to come!
Like a lot of men, I dump my coins in a jar. In my case, a BIG jar.
Not a jar really, but a plastic jack-o-lantern. Its demonic leer makes
me happy and I feed it every day. About five years ago, someone broke
into my home and took all my coins (among other things), leaving me
with the jack-o-lantern, which I now treasure.
Last month, the jack-o-lantern was too full. Every coin I tossed into
it bounced back out. *sigh*. Time to visit the coin counting machine.
I was very happy to get about $230 in cash, without even emptying my
jack-o-lantern!
Keeping cash around is a bad investment - even savings accounts are
costly. But I am happy with my jack-o-lantern. Fuggit.
- TR
- can't stand having coins jangling in my pockets.
