Do you save your change/ coins?

We could not keep the coins in our pocket easily. So we use to keep them in a pot like jar or bowl. But as concern myself I take rid of them by giving them to the children as pocket money at the moment of their departure for school in the morning. I could not count them and could not keep the account of coins. I considered them as money which I have already spent. Some time I give to beggars as charity.

i really agreew with u i also have a pig-shaped jar which one of my best friends give me as a new year gift in the last year.since then,i always pick and throw all the coins into the jar and now it almost full,now i dont know what should i do with these money ^_^ maybe i should get another bigger jar hahahaha

I never spend any of my change when I get it, I just through it into a jar when I get home. Last year, I went on vacation with my change. A lot of people don't realize how quickly that it can add up. My dad once through all of his change into a jar for an entire year to see how much it would add up too and he had over $2,000 by the end of the one year mark. this may not seem like a lot but for change, it is a heap. I have a friend who also saves her change and she pays her utility bills with it each month. Right now, i average about $40 in change each week and this is just by going to the store and using one dollar bill instead of using my change. I recommend everyone to use this as a method to save money. Even if you don't plan on going anywhere, it can still add up and each month if your were to put it into a savings account, you would build it up quicker over time.

yes I do know about the change my mother saves up her change and she saved it up for a while and she me and my kids and my neice and nephews to florida with what she saved up.

I save all my change. I used to put it into my savings account every time I reached 50.00. Lately it seems like I have been having t roll it up for gas money a dayor two before my husband gets paid. I used to save 1.00 bills but right now we cant afford to do that. My uncle saves 5.00 bills. He never spends them. Hopefully someday I can afford to do that. lol

To tell the truth, I use every coin and every dollar bill I have. No saving money for me!

We hardly ever use cash. We always use our check card for everything. We used to save our change and then go to a coinstar and deposit it. It came in real handy when we needed gas money and money for other things.

I do this all the time... I have a jar in my kitchen and I clean my purse out every couple of days and add all the coins to the jar. I was able to save enough to put a down payment on our cruise in May by doing this! Honestly! I've never tried with dollar bills though... that's a good thought!

I try to save change, but not the way that you would think. after each purchase i use debit with, i put the left over change in my savings account. say i had 10.00, and i spend 5.50, then i put the other 5.50 in savings. It all adds up really quick :)

When I get home at night I empty my purse of any change that I have acquired during the day and put it in a bank that I have in the house. About once every two months I empty it and put it in the savings account. But my grandkids do something even neater. They are 10, 12 and 13. They have a big bank in the house and they put their change in the bank. Their Dad doesn't put any change in. The kids do this on their own. They start this every January and in December they open the bank and count how much they have. Than their Dad gets a list of charities and the three grandkids pick out which charity they are going to donate the money to. I think that is pretty neat.

I got a piggy bank where I put all change I got at the end of buying something. Including the coins I pick up from the road which usually people out here ignores to pick up. I usually count them at the end of the year. Sometimes I use it to buy presents for family and friends.

I try to save all my coins. This year the money went towards a new car I bought and a new video camera. My next goal is to buy a house. Obviously I didn't pay for all my car with my loose change but by saving the small stuff and occassionally notes in a tin I could only open with a can opener was great incentive. Yes it hurt putting in larger notes so to make it easier I started off with $5 notes and then the occassional larger note. It hurt at the time parting with it but as they say you really don't miss what you don't have and when you do have it yes it comes in handy.

I don't have my own washer and dryer and therefore have to do my laundry at the laundry mat. So when I get quarters, those get put up for the laundry. Any other change I get, I usually devide it up evenly, (like if I have 60cents, I'd divide it into 30cents and 30cents, not necessarily the same number of coins), and put it into each of my two children's coin banks.

I do the same thing, not as religiously as i should, but we do save our change.

I save all the pennies I get for my grandkids. I throw them all in a big can and when the olders ones are here visiting from Arizona they get to cash it out and it's divided equally between the four. Last time they each had over twenty bucks....just in pennies!

Yes my husband and i both put all of our change together. We are saving it for an emergency. Only using it if its a have to case. We have been saving for probably about 3 months or maybe a little longer and we have $60 some. I know if we cash it in we will end up spending it, lol. So yeah i think it does help to save it.

the last time i did this..my wife was away for a couple weeks and i just put all the extra coins in coin wrappers and took them to the bank..as we are putting up our house for sale and i don't want a lot of stuff around to tempt people.. but the cashier looked at the coins and she was not pleased ..but they were in wrappers..she said if there was a mistake i and it was short i would have to pay the difference..so i told her i don't want the cash just put it in the checking account for me..it seems the banks hate to wait on anyone..good..get rid of the clerks and just have ATM machines..that is the way they are going anyway...even checkers are the store are being replaced by machines..and they just scan the items anyway? but it was about 59 bucks..give or take.

I used to save up my change in a jar and cash it in when the jar got full, but I have had such little money lately I have not been doing that. I have been using my change as I accumulate it. Once I have not money coming in I will start saving it in a jar again.

I think it's easier to pay exact change while you have the change sitting in your pocket, then you can keep your bills.

Yes , definitely. I had four containers full of loose change. I heard thay you can take them to the bank and they count them for you. Last week I dis and to my surprise I found I had $270. I asked them to top up my credit card. That was great.