Do you have a change jar?

Yes. It doesn't get as much contribution as it used but we still pay cash for quite a few things particularly at small businesses. I count the coins and roll them up once or twice a year. Last time I had over $60.

I have a bowl I put change in. It's small but still takes me years to fill it since I rarely use cash. It's a nice little treat when I do take it in to exchange for "real" money though!

Yes!

We play poker in my family and always have a bag of change to play with. I’ve been lucky in the last few years, and have had to empty some change out of my coin purse so it would close. I put the overflow in a box and when it starts to get full, I wrap them. Just last week I checked, and I wrapped $294 in change!

I still do though it doesn't collect as much as it used to. Mine is a vintage Grapette bottle "piggy bank" that was given to me over 50 years ago as a child. It's currently full but it took 2-3 years to fill it this time.

I had two but I’m down to one now.  I always kept one in the laundry room because DS and DH were always leaving change in their pockets.  I mainly use cash so once the jar is full I get DGS to help me count and roll. I started teaching him the different coins when he was four and now he’s loves sorting and filing the rolls. He also likes the little bonus he gets for doing it, unusually a roll of quarters or dimes depending on which I have the most of.

We used to. When my girls were little a fun "mom's broke but needs to entertain these kids" activity was taking the change to the machine at the grocery store to be counted and traded for paper bills, then go to the dollar store for some shopping.

We so rarely have cash or get change these days that there's no point.

No because we don't really pay for anything with cash.

I do.

I saved every coin from 2020 to July 2023. Over $250 dollars. Paid for Baby's (aka rescue/outside/GSD) vet bill. (Well, over half of it).

I keep a detergent bottle lid on the shelf in the laundry room.. because dh always leaves coins in his pocket.. and we have a big protein powder tub that we toss change in... We do still use cash.. I have better control over my spending.. i know its a mind thing... but it works for me...

When the protein jug is full... I take it to coin star and use it at HEB (our store) for groceries... the protein jug usually holds about $200 in coins... its like a free grocery shopping day!!

It takes about a year to fill it...

Dear god, do NOT do the big jug of change. It takes forever to fill and 10 forevers to roll it all- and ours was only a big pretzel jug. It was about 40% full - it was over $600, but not worth the time and effort sitting on the floor to roll it.

My bank has a free coin counter as long as you deposit some into your accoount.

My hubby has a 2 gallon jug that he drops all his change into. I empty my purse and get the coins to drop in there. Once it is full, my dh has a coin sorter and we seperate the quarters/dimes back into the jug and put the nickels/pennies in a cheese puff container. When we fill those both those containers, then we drop the money in a vacation savings account.

We save a little over 1k a year like this.

Jennifer

That would be amazing! My credit union doesnt have this.

Oh, I would never do Coinstar. Id rather have a smaller container and roll it more often than let it get to that amount!

We have a container for pennies and a container for everything else. I take the penny container to coin star and usually get $30 that I exchange for a Starbucks card. The container is an old Costco cashew container.
The other container nets about $300 and usually fills up every 3 years. Now that DH has retired, the container growth will be very slow.