When traveling, I always come home with loose change. It’s sometimes a few pennies and sometimes a pocketful of quarters from repeated tolls that never seem to be even dollar amounts. Either way, whenever I get home I drop the change into a container by my desk. Ever so often, we count the money and roll it. Rolling coins isn’t my idea of fun (as a child it was, but those days have passed). With as crazy as things have been around the house lately, we decided to accept the 9% fee and dump the change into one of those automated machines you see at the grocery store. We apparently had more coins than the average bear because the system kept indicating, “My, you have a lot of coins. Please wait while I catch up.”
How many coins did we have? See below!
I don\’t remember which one but there is a company that has those machines that allows you to redeem your money in the form of an Amazon gift certificate and they don\’t charge you the fee. Maybe it was just a promotion but we took advantage of it because we buy so much from Amazon.
Too bad we didn’t see that promotion! I have no idea how long it would have taken us to roll over $100 in loose change, but I’m willing to bet at least a couple of hours. So a $9 fee to save 2 hours or so of work… that’s cheaper than what we pay the people who mow our lawn and that takes them practically no time (visualize 3 guys swarming our lawn with all sorts of gas-powered machinery… And since watching the ‘mowers’ is one of Jonah’s favorite past-times, we have to be on our toes!).