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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on September 29, 2011, 10:07:32 PM
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-28-11 11:32 PM
Original message
I had $10.61 worth of pennies in the couch.
Well, not really in the couch. But I took all the loose pennies that I had in various containers around the house and went to the machine at the grocery store and thats how many I had... there were a few dimes lost in there. They take 10%.
More money than I thought it would be actually.
WTF? So they were in the couch, but not in the couch? Sounds like you were trying to spin a whimsical money-in-the-couch bouncy, but decided it wasn't worth the effort.
mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-29-11 09:50 AM
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2. The bank will give you coin wrappers for free and you don't have
to pay the machine fee of 10%.
Freee!!!!!shift1!
undeterred (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-29-11 10:58 AM
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3. Yeah, but I just didn't feel like it.
Some of the money was dirty and rusty and it was easier just pouring it into a machine than hand counting it. It was worth a dollar to get nine spendable dollars.
First you give up on rolling your own money, and then you give up on your money-in-the-couch bouncy.
What a lazy primitive. But, I repeat myself.
Abin Sur (249 posts) Thu Sep-29-11 12:01 PM
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6. My credit union doesn't charge a fee to use the coin counting machine
if you're a member.
undeterred (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-29-11 02:19 PM
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11. You know what, I didn't think of that.
I opened a credit union account recently and I didn't check to see if they had a machine. I used the one at the grocery store.
You already established the fact that you used the one at the grocery store in your first post. Unless of course, that is also part of the aborted money-in-the-couch bouncy?
Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-29-11 12:58 PM
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10. The nice thing about those wrappers is you can put in 50. Or 49 coins. Or 46
Only a fool would think that the bank does not count those rolls out. I can't figure out if this primitive is trying to cheat "the man", or has trouble counting up to 50. In any event, we join the Shagbark primitive as they are being schooled by the bank teller after once again finding their rolled coins off the mark:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSlfttDnurw[/youtube]
PRETZEL (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-29-11 12:53 PM
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9. I do something similar
I keep a jar in the bedroom. Everynite I empty my change into into it. Start each day with no change.
Usually adds up to about $60 a month. Wife and I use that on dinner one nite.
This would be the opening line most of the residents on the island would use to begin their autobiography.
RebelOne (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-29-11 03:14 PM
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12. I have a piggy bank full of loose change.
Edited on Thu Sep-29-11 03:15 PM by RebelOne
Some day I will take all that change to my local Kroger money machine when I really need the money. So in the meantime, I am just thinking of it as a savings account.
Yes, a savings account that you have no clue how much you have in it. I'm glad you're not in charge of my finances.
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Free money! Free money!!!
Maybe that's why those dumbass hippies in NYC had their take-a-penny, leave-a-penny tray. They were expecting to get rich.
The most I've every counted in spare change was less than $40.
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The primitives seem to base their savings habits on the principle of least effort. When a primitive happens to win life's lottery and ends up with a few spare cents in their pocket, they simply leave it to fall into the couch.
Like electricity and water, whatever path allows for the least resistance is the one they will almost inevitably take every time.