What are you doing with your change?

Our spare change we put in a jam jar in the cupboard.We use it for the end of the week to give to our 4 1/2 yearold daughter as an allowance.It works out good.When i was single,i too used my change for date night or bar night!(usually ladies night;costs nothing!)

We are saving our change up to buy a washing machine. I hate going to the laundry mat every week. Lately weve been needing the change for bread and milk though. I also roll my own coins. I'm a cheap date too,I hate to spend money.

Our change gets collected and rolled also- My daughter and I usually sit on the floor and roll it up- We use it strictly for vacations- Or fun days- Pedicures, nights out, Niagara Falls- something fun- I even throw dollar bills in the change jar from time to time- It makes it add up more quickly-

I try to pay with my change as much as I possibly can. I usualy use my debit card but I carry cash and spend it on small purchaces. I carry a lot of change and try to pay the exact ammount so I am not getting change back. That way I figure I am saving the green ones for me.

I use it for the vending machines at work, mostly. On any given day, I usually have a pocket full of loose change.

I use my spare change to pay for my bus ticket when I do not have money for the bus. I do not ride the buy much but when I do I like to have the right change. I am handycapped so I can take dial a ride which comes right to my home. The draw back it costs two dollars on way. That is why I do not take it much.

We keep it in a piggy bank. When it gets full, I roll it up and deposit it into our savings account. This goes to pay off a debt that I am putting monthly payments on. It helps.

I put them in a bottle and save them for Christmas gift. I unfortunately was broke earlier this year so I use them for grocery, but I now have about $20.00 which hopefully I wont touch, and can buy a couple Christmas gifts.

I don't roll mine because my coworkers would get annoyed at me when I took it into the bank. =p Any change taken into our bank has to be run through the coin counter, whether the customer brought it in rolled or not. So this is how the life of my coins goes: 1. They accumulate in my purse until it is too heavy for me to carry. Then I finally clean all the change out of it. 2. It goes in either a piggy bank or jar, depending on which still has room in it at the moment. 3. Some crisis or emergency situation comes up where we desperately need money, and my husband and I take all the coin we have collected to the bank to be run through the machine and put in our account. Usually when we finally cash it in, it's at least $100, if not more, since we only cash it in for emergencies.

wow! i like your topic.. i have collected all my change since my high school days.. most of the time, my change is twenty five cents, one peso... all those twenty five cents, i put them in my ice cream cone shaped jar and it's already full that's why, i have to buy another one... if only you can see how much my changes are for now... i've got lots of them coz until now, i keep on collecting those twenty five cents.. it's really fun doing it!

Hi. Wow Change, we have change in our car astrays, which are clean, just full of coins, we have change in an old teapot in the house, we have change in a jar inside our laundry from finding coins in the washing machine lol... Theres change all over the place that needs picking up and putting aside in one big jar/bottle, its going to come in handy at one time or another lol...

I don't want to have lots of change in my wallet. So I always try to spend them.

I don't have a change jar. I don't like holding coins, which I'm sure is the case for people who have a change jar, so i use my spare change as soon as i can. it also saves time for the cashier and they don't have to calculate and give out change. usually folks are too lazy to dig for change and just give them a note for change. coin rollers? you talking about them jackpot machines? well, there aren't many in my vincinity and I've never really enjoyed them. Too noisy in my opinion. Short answer would be that i use my spare change. :)

I put mine in a jar and save it up until Christmas. I normally have enough to by alot of my Christmas food with it.

I have been saving my change for a while. My husband doesn't know it, but I am just saving it, either for hard times or maybe a nice vacation next year.

I dont save pennies only silver and I keep it for unexpected expenses or treats.

well over the summer we used our spare change to have a wonderful family day out at an amusement park...we had a lot of fun and we used our spare change (some of it being from the 3 garage sales that we had)...now we will start saving for next years fun events!

Whenever my purse starts to get heavy from change, I clean it out and throw the pennies in one jar and everything else into a tin canister. When the canister gets close to full, I sort and roll out my coins into coin wrappers and put them in my savings account. Usually I use that to pay off any credit card expenses, or I get something I've had my eye on for a while.

I have 2 glasses on a shelf in my kitchen, 1 from the Hard Rock Cafe in San Francisco and 1 from the Harley Davidson Cafe in New York. I put the quarters in the Harley glass and all the rest of my change in the other glass. I just let it accumulate until I need it for something (usually groceries) and go to a coinstar to change it.

wah!!!this a good question...rare in a few, thank you. Why never come across to my mind...in fact I'm doing it daily. I used it for my paid TV bills. And I enjoy doing that way at the end of every month.