How many of you like to save coins in a large container and watch it grow?

shel90 said:
That's a good idea. My husband is hearing and the oven timer is really loud. He never uses it when he cooks because he cant stand the sound of it. Now, I will require him to do that but can set up the timer on my phone as well.
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If you have an Android phone, you can find all sorts of timers on Google Play. Heck, there's even one that's like a basketball timer.
 
i call it the shrapnell tin i put all brown money and 5pence bits in and another tin for any euro's and cents for reuse..i change all my coins up before gets to heavy..stick lot in machine at ASDA and get notes back
 
ChicagoBlue2 said:
If you have an Android phone, you can find all sorts of timers on Google Play. Heck, there's even one that's like a basketball timer.
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I have a timer on my phone already.
 
I save my change in a pickle jar. I would love to have one of those huge water containers, but I live a tiny apartment and space is crucial.
 
Dixie said:
I save my change in a pickle jar. I would love to have one of those huge water containers, but I live a tiny apartment and space is crucial.
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You could buya trunk and use it as table and put your money inside it.
 
Dixie said:
I save my change in a pickle jar. I would love to have one of those huge water containers, but I live a tiny apartment and space is crucial.
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You know one of those cylinder ink toner containers? I use one of those to save my coins in.
 
When we cleaned out my daughters room I found a bunch of change plus quite a few gift cards she never used. Lucky me!!! I need to find a nice place to put all of my change.
 
shel90 said:
Thanks, I got over the depression and extreme guilt so I am just more careful. Ironically, a few nights ago, my husband was cooking butternut squash and baked it at 400 degrees in the oven. I was busy with other things and we all went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and I kept smelling this aroma like a scented candle was burning so I looked around the living room and my room to make sure that no candles were left burning and I checked those areas like 5 times throughout the night because my paranoia set in. Saw nothing...went back to sleep. Woke up to go to work and went in the kitchen to get some water. I felt heat from the oven and saw that my husband left it on so I turned it off and opened it, thinking there was nothing in it but sure enough, the butternut squash was still in there and burned beyond black.

My husband was so tired and went to bed. He forgot that he was baking the food in the oven. I told him to pls pls use the timer next time he bakes something so he can hear it and be reminded of it.

Being so exhausted is not helping us. We both have very demanding jobs and our jobs take so much energy from us. Frankly, I am getting sick of it which is why I am looking for another job.
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Shel, fire is one of my biggest fears. When the kids lived at home we had a great fire escape plan. Fire extinguishers in many locations in the house, alarms and a drop down rope from our upstairs window. We have become lazy in taking precautions.

Stories like the one you posted get us thinking again. I'm sorry this happend to you but it was an accident and everyone is ok.
 
ChicagoBlue2 said:
I have multiple containers I'm actually planning on using this year, and my largest one has the potential to hold a LOT of money, but how much, I don't yet know.
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Same here! I have so many places I am wanting to go I gotta save up! I love doing the jar thing. I motivates me to NOT touch it, leave it until it's the appropriate time to use it. I put dates on the container/jar too on when the event/what I'm saving for is
 
DoctorStarkidPotter said:
Same here! I have so many places I am wanting to go I gotta save up! I love doing the jar thing. I motivates me to NOT touch it, leave it until it's the appropriate time to use it. I put dates on the container/jar too on when the event/what I'm saving for is
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I don't have any realistic goals at this moment; I just want to learn how to better manage my money more wisely.
 
Just threw in 3 one dollar bills and some change in the coin jar last night. :)
 
Not any more... now when I have too much change I take it out of my wallet. If I know I'm going to a store with self-service checkouts I take it. I spent five minutes at the supermarket shoving in all my nickels and dimes, only about two bucks' worth but my wallet was halved in weight!
 
Whenever I can, I stop by the coin shop and buy Silver Eagles. Silver is only $20 an ounce now and of course it will shoot up soon. The market flunctuates, so buy when it is low (now) and sell when it is high. Sure beats saving pennies in some jar.
 
My wallet at times gets so full, so does my purse...and when it feels heavy. I clean it out, mostly all change...so I do the same and have a big jar for it all....Never forget the time when I had a lot of OLD coins, put them into a plastic container in the top of my closet....My boys went looking for change...and took it to the store for sodas and chips....
 
Beowulf said:
Whenever I can, I stop by the coin shop and buy Silver Eagles. Silver is only $20 an ounce now and of course it will shoot up soon. The market flunctuates, so buy when it is low (now) and sell when it is high. Sure beats saving pennies in some jar.
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If you buy at $20, what feels like a good selling price to you? Or what's your expectation?

And how do you go about selling them? Can you do that at the same place where you buy them?
 
tuatara said:
If you buy at $20, what feels like a good selling price to you? Or what's your expectation?

And how do you go about selling them? Can you do that at the same place where you buy them?
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I buy Silver Eagles for two dollars above the market value. Today the asking price for silver is $20.27, so I can buy an Eagle (99.99% silver) for 22.27. When the asking price goes up to, say, 33.25, I can sell it for two dollars below the market value, i.e., 31.25. You can buy and sell at the same shop. Some pawnshops offer good deals as well, but take care they do not short you too much.
Hope this helps.
 
Beowulf said:
I buy Silver Eagles for two dollars above the market value. Today the asking price for silver is $20.27, so I can buy an Eagle (99.99% silver) for 22.27. When the asking price goes up to, say, 33.25, I can sell it for two dollars below the market value, i.e., 31.25. You can buy and sell at the same shop. Some pawnshops offer good deals as well, but take care they do not short you too much.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for explaining. Interesting and sounds tempting, although doing a few searches for coin shops local to me, the only one I see advertising their prices is charging $6 over spot. Maybe some areas are better for buying/selling than others.
 
We had a penny bucket growing up. I rolled them and cashed 'em in before I graduated HS. It was just over $200. I did save the wheat ones, though.
 
soulchill said:
We had a penny bucket growing up. I rolled them and cashed 'em in before I graduated HS. It was just over $200. I did save the wheat ones, though.
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I need to separate my pennies and let those grow on their own. This is getting me thinking about doing that soon-- possibly before the end of the month. For now, though, I'll leave all my coins in the same place, until I have found the time to wash a container I've been meaning to put to good use, and that's one way to do that.

Speaking of containers-- I also have a couple of pickle jars, and does anyone know how to get rid of the pickle-y smell so I don't bring coins that smells like pickles?
 
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