Collect Your Changes: Handy Little Saving From Your Coins

   

For now and then, I get some changes from my cash transactions. These coins can be handy when you need some for parking fee. So, I always have some amount inside the console box of my car for this purpose. But the small problem is, these coins also handy for some vending machine stuff and other petty items that could be impulsive and not budgeted item.

For example, you’re waiting for the train to come up, in your pocket you got these $2 or so worth of coins that give its noise when you walk. Also it put some additional weight to your wallet. In your mind, you want to get rid of them as soon as possible. And suddenly you realize that you are standing in front of a vending machine with this chocolate bar for sale for $1.20. Don’t you get easy to use that coin to buy this unscheduled item? Probably the answer is yes. First, you already want to get rid of them, then you can make use of a little snack…

Or you can make this coins help your budget of saving….

Quite a Monthly Saving

Here is how I did it. Every time I get a new coins, I refill the parking coins in my car.  But, once I got home,I always empty my pocket from coins and put it all there in the jar. I have a little jar where I use it for coin collection. My wife does the same.

Coins to save

Then whenever the jar is full, I put all the coins into a plastic bag and take them to the bank. Usually they have this coin collector machine which will count all the coins within seconds. And I put the amount into saving account. How much I got? It’s ranging within $30 – $70 per month. Well, not much.. but this amount is direct ly go back to your saving account, not to the vending machine, coffee shop or lottery agent. Doing this continuously, I saw more than $600 a year.

So, that’s a little tip for you today  to make use your changes to the max !

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