I don’t pick up anything less than a quarter, and in fact if i find dimes or nickels in my pocket i just throw them away… i do all my banking electronically, and the cost of going somewhere that i could exchange small change for usable money, plus the cost of storing and rummaging through the nickels looking for quarters, far outweighs the $2.44 per five years or whatever it is i’d make.
Quarters are valuable because you can use them in machines, and particularly for doing laundry, they’re the ONLY thing you can use in machines… there’s no change machine here...
It’s not clear to me that throwing away change is less of a hassle than throwing it in your coin jar at home. You have to do something with it either way.
Eventually the coin jar gets full enough that it’s worth taking to the bank—last time I did this I had about $60 from five years, much more than your $2.44 estimate, though, clearly, still not significant.
I do the same thing, but I also buy more stuff with cash. If you do all of your purchasing with a credit card you will have a shockingly low amount of change.
Yeah, I always use a credit card. The difference between throwing change away and putting it in a jar is that one is a mindless reaction to going through my pockets and somehow coming up with a nickel, and the other is something I would actually have to remember to do once I got home.
Also, when I say I “throw it away”, I mean that in most cases, I just literally toss it on the ground. Society doesn’t consider it litter, so what the hey...
I don’t pick up anything less than a quarter, and in fact if i find dimes or nickels in my pocket i just throw them away… i do all my banking electronically, and the cost of going somewhere that i could exchange small change for usable money, plus the cost of storing and rummaging through the nickels looking for quarters, far outweighs the $2.44 per five years or whatever it is i’d make.
Quarters are valuable because you can use them in machines, and particularly for doing laundry, they’re the ONLY thing you can use in machines… there’s no change machine here...
It’s not clear to me that throwing away change is less of a hassle than throwing it in your coin jar at home. You have to do something with it either way.
Eventually the coin jar gets full enough that it’s worth taking to the bank—last time I did this I had about $60 from five years, much more than your $2.44 estimate, though, clearly, still not significant.
I do the same thing, but I also buy more stuff with cash. If you do all of your purchasing with a credit card you will have a shockingly low amount of change.
Yeah, I always use a credit card. The difference between throwing change away and putting it in a jar is that one is a mindless reaction to going through my pockets and somehow coming up with a nickel, and the other is something I would actually have to remember to do once I got home.
Also, when I say I “throw it away”, I mean that in most cases, I just literally toss it on the ground. Society doesn’t consider it litter, so what the hey...