No, Uncle Sam, none of this is taxable…
After three years of filling cups up with all of my spare change, I finally decided today that enough was enough. The coins had to go. And go they went…
I’d already consolidated several large soda cups into the one gallon ice cream bucket and stowed it away in my closet. I took the two cups that were now overflowing on my nightstand and dumped them each into two plastic containers like what you’d put Christmas cookies in. I hefted all of that coinage into my bank this morning and cashed that shit in.
How much had I nickel and dimed myself for, you might ask? Well……. take a guess. Seriously, in the comments below.
Thursday, when I post my Share Your World answers that I’d normally run today, I’ll announce what that two tons of metal added up to. Whoever comes closest to the total (in absolute terms…. in other words, this isn’t The Price Is Right, so going over is just as good as being under) will get the opportunity to prompt one of my future posts. Yes, I’ll post about whatever you want me to…
Unless it has something to do with Justin Bieber.
For my international readers, the buckets contain only quarters (25 cents), dimes (10 cents), nickels (5 cents) and pennies (1 cent)..
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Good guess. We shall see…
Okay, I’ll give a guess. In the past six months I’ve taken two zip loc baggies (gallon size) of coins to the bank, and the first time I garnered myself $150, the second I garnered $85.10; and my containers were a LOT smaller than what you show in your picture. I’m going to guess $800. At least.
We shall see if it is indeed that much…
That’s a nice stash. $752.
And probably not a war nickel in the whole stash. Your guess is duly noted…
I catch hell from my other half all the time for turning coins in without checking first!
$210.00
You win the prize for being the first one to include the cents total, even though you stuck with an even dollar amount. We shall see how you’ve done Thursday…
I’m assuming in the picture the silver coins are worth more than the copper coins and the bigger silver coins are the “quarters”?
In which case USD 127.47. On the nose.
American coins are weird in that the sizes don’t quite match up with the denominations. The quarters are the largest of the four, just barely longer in diameter than the nickel. And our dimes are smaller than the pennies.
As for your guess…… well, you never know.
I’ve just looked at other people’s answers and feel I may have undershot.
USD 15,365.98. On the nose.
My son and his partner call that change “the dinner out” fund. When there’s enough money, they go out somewhere they usually can’t afford. We never have any change because we pay for almost everything except newspapers with our bank card. I never have any money in my wallet.
My Mom always saved it up for Christmas each year. I was apparently saving it up to use as a doorstop…
I’ll guess $1,997.00.
That’s a lot of pennies. We’ll see if that’s close…
305.27 And yes, we are talking US-Dollars, not Euros.
I doubt there’s any Euros in there anyway (I don’t even know if there are Euro coins or not). There may have been a Canadian coin or two, as some of them bear enough of a resemblance to US coins to get spent like them…
Yes we do have coins. We were v t the first to have some, but we had coins in Europe long before there were the US. 😁
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Check, Please! Pay to the Order of: Our Retired Life $953.53 April 10, 2019
Nine Hundred fifty three dollars and 53 cents.
MEMO: Contest Winner Signed: Evil Squirrel
Shall I have Ed McMahon and Dick Clark deliver a life sized copy of that check to your door? Oh wait, they can’t do that anymore…
We’ll see if that check bounces or not…
lol I thought I would make my guess for your change stash a bit unique.
we say $$ 887… guess what happened once to the mama? she brought a big bag with 1 cent shrapnell to the bank… it was something around 20 euros… and this a-hats kept 3.50 for the effort!!!! scandalous! moneeh -sharks!
I thought my bank might charge for it too since I know they used to have a fee for coin counting even for people with an account. Thankfully, my bank is slightly less evil than most banks…
Hmm…….I say $521.37. More or less……….HAHAHA
Pam and Teddy
Less is more, more or less. Unless you hit it on the nose, I guarantee it will be one or the other!
We do save up coins and cash them in sometimes. They usually add up to more than you think. Yay!
For my guess I’m going with today’s date (that I’m seeing your post) which is 4/10/19 … so $410.19. 🙂
I’m never good at guessing these kinds of things. But I am certain you got some serious bag of dough after the exchange. Minus bank fees of course. 💰
I was going to guess but then I realized I’m so behind in reading that you’ve probably already posted the answer. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I can’t keep up with anything these days!
Yeah, I posted the answer Thursday. It’s alright, I’m glad you’re still able to come around sometimes! I hope it has nothing to do with all of the evil nightmares my gang has given you over the years…