I Reminded Myself Of This...

I toss my small coins in a 5 gallon water container. A few months ago I emptied it and took to change house here. Had over 150.00 in all. I never knew it added up so fast.

Seeing the situation you guys were in at Christmastime, it would have been nice if she let you know this before she used it. Not nice at all. I bet you would have at least split it with her after finding out, IF she would have told you. How come you are so nice and everyone else is so stingy?

Lucky sister you have for getting such amount! :D I wish I was like you back then. Even if I set aside some change I still end up giving the money away to kids. However, I totally agree that saving up those little change adds up to something big. Two years ago I bought 3 little piggy banks for my three nephews at the start of the year. I intend to put in my change in the piggy banks and I'll give it to them by Christmas as presents. So come Christmas that year, when we were opening our gifts they decided to break the piggy banks and count their money. I was surprised when they told me how much they got. I never thought I could save that much from those pennies.

What are you...Cancerian or Leo? lol

They actually do add up! It's like my earnings here in myLot which I don't ever touch. They just go to an account which I watch grow. It's funny how a few change can become a certain amount after some time. I guess you only not made your sister happy, but also the people she gave Christmas gifts too!

I used to save a lot too, but then I'd give it away to people. I am a generous person, so I'd always give it to someone who needed it. I had saved up 7 dollars and 38 cents (a big deal for me) and I gave it to the fund at my school for some people who got hit by a tornado.

Wow! Your piggy bank must have been about the size of a real pig! Mine was about the size of a soup can, maybe smaller. Never got more than $2-3 in it.

Wow that must have been a big bank to hold $75 worth of change. I used to save all my money when I was a kid to. My sister would spend hers about as soon as she got it. I had a lot saved up by the time I was a senior in high school. I guess you should have asked your sister how much change there was in there lol. Live and learn right!

I save my change also. It really adds up. Once my girls and I saved all our change in a big jug for a year and then turned it in. we had well over 600.00!! now I average about 30 to 40.00 per month. I try not to spend it and it is good to know it is there in case I need it.

hi lovingmybabies. you were one thrifty kid and it was nice of you to let your sister spend the money that you saved all those years. anyway, i still do practice saving coins in a piggy bank. in fact, it is something that i shared to my daughter as well. right now, we have one piggy bank each and i get to save my change after the end of the day. for my duaghter i give her 'challenges' and if she completes each 'challenge', she gets a monetary reward. these 'challenges' range from getting a perfect score in an exam to reaching a point grade average in school to being able to read a certain number of books over a long weekend. i also include some fun activities for my daughter in these 'challenges' such as learning how to snap her fingers and learning how to jump rope. sometimes doing household chores are also included in the 'challenge'. hopefully, she gets to learn how to save and makes this a habit until she grows into an adult. cheers and happy mylotting!!!

My boyfriend is against saving up change. He complains that it doesn't "add up to anything." This coming from a math guy... *Sigh* He and I have some different views regarding money. I wish that he'd move more toward my view of it, since we would have quite a bit more money if he did.

That is really good saving. I like to save as well. The problem is when I get all of the change, I don't get around to putting them in rollers to exchange them. I know I could save a lot by doing so. I am good with bills though, I can save those for a long time usually. If I just have something to buy though, of course they will go quickly. I wish I hadn't started drinking sometimes. All of my extra cash goes to that habit.

I would have loved to be your sister! That is so cool, at a young age to be able to save that much on change alone. I also like to save when I was a kid and I have a piggy bank. But the thing is, if there is something that I want to buy, I will get some money from my bank using a ruler, lol! I just slide it in and out slides the change. So I wasn't able to save that much. But still, I manage to have a decent amount, but not as impressive as yours.

The is why it is a very good reason to save i just wish my daughter was like you. she just spend and spend all her money like water. but i also save money as well from young...

It is funny how much you can save by saving change. My son used to just come home from and empty his pockets and tell us, he did not want change, he did not like carrying it around and we could have it. I took it and added it to ours. I tried to get him to put it in a jar and keep it, and he would not. In his truck, he would throw it in the console. One day he had to repair his truck, and was scrimping to get through the week. He was surprised how much change that he had in his truck. He now has a jar upstairs, and saves every cent.

That change can really add up. I had a huge jar that I would toss change in all the time and there came a time when I had nothing. I wondered how I would buy milk and bread. I sit down with some rolls and started rolling it up. I had enough in there to buy my milk and bread plus some dinner items! Life saver. I was amazed too. I have a coffee jar jug now that I have been tossing change in. When it gets full I am going to see how much I have.

Lol! well that’ll teach you to ask before you say yes lol!

Perception when you are little with money is different then when you are a grown up. It was nice that someone got to spend it, and that you were able to save that much in change as a child.

I bought a piggy bank before and started to save at least a coin a day. It was already half when my friend ask me to lend money due to his shortage of daily allowance so I said he just get it to my piggy bank since he was only lending for $5 usd and I was still at work. But then it took months before he gave it and so my piggy bank was emptied. So I started all over again and then he borrowed again and I used my savings in the piggy bank again. Now, I am not saving anymore.

Sometime we never knew how much we have in our piggy banks. Saving money and coins are really good. When we need something we can buy it or use it for emergency. You'll never know where your pennies will lead you.