What do you do with the money you save in a jar?

Why pay coinstar to count and roll your change when you can do it yourself? Banks will still give you paper rolls to put coins in. Just count the coins, fill the rolls and take them to the bank to exchange for bills. You have to put your bank account number on them so you can't cheat and put in blanks or shortchange the roll.

Hi,there, For me ,Sometimes I would like to use that amount of money in the jar to change for something else with my mom since my mom is an accountant at that time ,she will change the coin into paper money we call "(RMB)". I remember there was a time I used all of my money to the poor people on the street .I parted my money into several parts and distributed them to four beggers I met on that day...In helping others I just made these coins relaize their true value ....~~~ Molly:)

Hello, I also have a jar... but full with money range from $100-$1. sometimes I have coins as well, but if I have too much then I will put in the bank. I will not pay for those coin machine. 7 cents per dollar? how if I have whole lot? then I will have to pay more than I save huh? no way. mostly, I will save it for something important or my emergency money needed. If not then I will keep them all...

With the change that I save I bag it up and take it to the bank or the post office and then divide the money between myself and my partner. I think what I will do from now on though is when I change it, put it into my baby's account. Baby is due in just over 2 weeks. I would like to start saving for my child and encourage my child to save and to help them understand the value of money.

i used to pride myself in saving whatever i can (this would entirely mean coins for most of us) in a piggy bank. a big piggy bank that is. till i realized that it's hard to bring them all to the bank once that piggy bank gets filled up so i decided to buy little piggy banks instead so the coins wouldn't be as heavy when i get to bring them to the bank. i find this better since i found myself spending many coins, and my savings, because i can't bring them all to the bank.

I too am a person that saves up my change in my pocket at the end of the day into a change container. When the container gets full I go to the closest bank and get some coin rolls for them and I will roll up all of my change. Then I will go back to the bank and either trade in the change for cash or I will deposit it into our checking account. In this day and age where every penny counts, I can't afford to lose almost 1/10 of my money to the coin star.

We save it until there is something we really need and don't have the money for. Our money is tight, so we don't touch it, as it is our only backup.

While I don't save money in a jar, I have some good friends that do. They save their change until they have a household bill they can't pay. They hand wrap the quarters then take the small change to a Coinstar machine. To me, that's a silly expense. Whenever I have change to roll (like after a garage sale), I do it by hand. It doesn't take long and isn't hard. It's something I can do while watching TV, for Pete's sake. Even if it is "just 7%" as some say, I still think every penny counts.

Usually I save it up for rummage sale season! Or if the kids do something I didn't ask them to do I put it in their piggy banks and add it to their savings account & then roll it into a cd when they have enough or leave it to add when an existing cd comes due.

Usually I save it for vacation. Vacations are very important to us so I want to make sure we at least have some money for vacations every year, even if times are rough. But in the past I did save enough change and dollar bills to buy a patio set. I took me two years but I was finally able to to do it. I felt pretty proud of that and love the patio set.

The quarters I save for laundry since I don't have my own washer and dryer. The pennies go into a fortune cookie tin and the rest in a jat. I plan on rolling the coins and depositing them in my savings. I don't trust the Coinstar machine at my local grocery store because it is always breaking down.

I save my money and cash it in before I go on vacation.

We keep it for quicky things like change for the meter or a treat like ice cream with the kids. If the jar does get filled to the top we put it away for vacation, or as of now saving it to go to a wedding across the country next year.

Hello Happythoughts, I never end up using the money in my piggy bank for what I was saving for. Theres always some emergency that comes up and I'll take that money to sort of pay for it. I roll the money myself, buy the plastic thingy at the dollar store. Last time my piggy bank was full, we had to use it all for a new hot water heater. So this time around, Im not thinking about anything in particular, maybe I'll manage to fill up my huge piggy bank this time around !!

We save the money until the jar is full, then we roll the coins and put them in our savings accounts in the bank.

Hello happythoughts! There are several coin jars I maintain at home. Having them filled up for sometime now made me more aware of how much it contains the moment each jar is filled up. I mean, I already know, more or less how much I have saved so far. Of course, I still count the moment each jar is filled up. Sometimes, I go deposit the coins in the bank. Sometimes, I just use it to purchase whatever it is that I have been saving up for. There are also times when I go to stores to have it changed into paper bills.

Me and my girlfriend save up all our change in this big jar we have in our room. When it gets completely full we usually cash all the coins in at a Coinstar somewhere and then go to a used book store and pick up some new books and then we go out to lunch or dinner with what we have left over. The last time we cashed in our jar we got $97.77

I save my change until I have enough to roll and then I deposit in the bank to help with my bills. Every penny adds up. I have a deposit ready to take to the bank in the morning. I don't use coinstar because I hate giving money away. I hear you can get gift card now and they don't take a commission for the change. I don't mind rolling my own.

In my country´s currency, the biggest coins are worth a little less than a dollar. I save some of those in my piggybank for vacations, once a year, along with my online earnings saved at paypal. I must confess that if I have an emergency, I open the piggybank. Fortunatly it´s not that easy to get my paypay money so that goes ALWAYS for my main purpose. The lesser coins I keep in a ceramic swann and use it to buy eggs and cheese at a nearby mini market. When my dog sees me with the swann in my hand, she knows she´s in for a walk.. Still the smallest coins I save all year to take them to the Bank once a year at the time of my country´s Teleton (a 24 hour TV show that collects money for hadicapped people). The Bank recieves all kinds of change that day: it´s like the real Christmas spirit comes to visit us. Take care and hppy posting!!!

It is really amazing how big things start from small. I have this piggy bank at home where I put evan the smallest denomination. I'm planning to buy for something important - like snacks or pay the bills or something.