The Great Money Hunt!

I have done this. We as a family have many different piggy banks. Like I play pool so I keep loose bills and quarters in my pool mug. My 3 year old son has a crayon bank. My hubby keeps his change and loose bills on his dresser(Big Mistake)when you have little ones that likes money. My youngest son is too young to even care about money. Well one day before we went to go camping we were complaining how we had no money to go get get gum or pop or even ice cream. I had to do laundry and all before we went camping. Well when I was doing laundry I found 12 dollars. Then we went through all our banks and such and found a good 5 dollars in quarters. So when we got out there we went to the store and got a pop to share and then bought the little ones a piece of candy each and bought my 3 year old gum with it. Most other times we will use the change and loose bills to go get a tube of ice cream and cones. It's great when you can do that, because finding the money together to have a family night together is fun. Happy Mylotting

That does sound fun. What I do is empty my wallet into a jar everyday and then cash the coins to buy a gift for myself. Its fun because its like a secret stash you didn't know you had. And it must be good bonding for you and your sister too.

Most of my spare change ends up in jars until I can get around to doing something with it. I am not sure how much my wife has in her car and purse. Those are the big grey areas for me. I guess that she would have a couple of bucks lying around. As for my jars, I think I currently have about twenty bucks. Unfortunately, the pizza boy does not like to get paid in looses change. *sigh*

We usually go for money walks around the neighborhood. Most of the time the money we find around the house has fallen out of my hubby's pants when he is playing with the kids. Makes it easy to find. The amount is always less than a $1.

oh yes when we had our own home we wou ld look in the sofa, under the dressers, in the chairs, and often found quite a bit of loose change. then we would stick in our old glass jar until we had built up a goodly sum and then whisk it to the bank all neatly rolled up in paper wrappers for each coin denomination what fun that was.

The last time I did something like that was when I was a few cents short of buying something we really needed and were flat broke. We don't normally have much change lying around. Mostly because we don't carry cash ever, we use our debit card for everything! Whenever one of us does get some change for something, I put it in a ziplock baggy. Once I get a small handful of change I bring it to the store and deposit it into the Coinstar machine and then use it towards my groceries that day. If I happen to come across change around the house or in the car, it goes in that baggy.

That is a good idea. My dad always has spare change in his pockets. So my sister and I when were kids, would go through the couch every now and then to find some extra money. I don't know if he would have cared, seeing as I think he knew change would fall out of his pockets. When my mom would do the laundry, she was always pulling out change that he had left in his pants pockets. Now I don't carry change in my pockets, so looking in my couch would be useless. But I bet I could find some at my parent's house. My dad does try to put his change in a stoplight bank my sister got him several years ago for Christmas (don't ask). So he started putting the change in, and waited six months before taking it to the bank to cash it in. He had 200 dollars in there! He used that for his and my mom's next vacation.