Traveling on your loose change!

Hi angelican, thats an interesting happening and i am amazed that they had the patience to do this for years and finally reap the benefits from it. I was recently reading about an old man who had an account in the post office for nearly 52 years and he deposited a bare minimum and never withdrew from it. Finally he had stopped using the account sice he was too ill and the post office got in touch with him after many attempts and found him in very poor surroundings being abandoned by his family. They told him that the money had amassed and with interest came up to a few lakhs of rupees and it really was very helpful for him- i am sure the family must have immediately come running to him

Last summer we went to Disney World. My son has this big water jug by his desk and he would put his change in it. So, he cash it in before we left and I thought he wouldn't have much because it was maybe only 1/8 full. He had over $200.00 saved.

That is quite a nice story... very inspiring... i opened a bank account for my daughter... and i deposit loose change that i accumulate for a month... we are actually saving for a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland... and based on your story... it is so possible... we may not be able to save in like a year or two... but my daughter is only 3 years old... so there is still plenty of time...

i really don't have a story but me and my family save our change in diffrent places and when mine get full i take it to the bank and put in in my account that i bearly ever use that way when we go on vaccion this summer i will be able to buy something nice .

I've heard stories of people saving their own change for years and when they finally counted it all up they had thousands of dollars. I don't think I have that much patience. We do have a family change jar. We all throw in our change and then when it comes time to go on our yearly vacation we cash it in. Last year we had about $150. This year the jar is a little on the low side because I think we are using our debit cards more often now verses cash. But hopefully, we'll still be around $100, that ought to but a nice dinner at least.

my my thats a unique one .. lolz i dnt have any such story but urs is gr8

Wow thats a great experience that your grandparents had. When I was a kid, I would clean our house to collect loose change and I usually find it under the table or cabinets. I used the money to buy the extras that I want like a new toy. These days, I still have a piggy bank aside from my bank account and I save my coins and I use it for some cases to buy something which is not beyond my budget so it really helps.

Thanks for telling us on wonderful My Lot about your grandparents collecting change left behind. It was fantastic that they were able to travel to Disney World after getting so much money. Most people have coins in their home, down the back of the sofa or behind a book shelf perhaps. One man saves all his change and gives it to my son's playgroup for disabled children. It amounts to quite a lot of money each year. In my local supermarket there is a coin sorter machine so can quickly count all the coins a person puts into it. Then a ticket is issued and the supermarket will give the money in notes and larger coins. I have a friend that pays for half of her traveling with half her on-line earnings. I have let out my house to help me get enough money to travel around the world. In addition I got a working holiday visa for Australia. When I was a teenager I had a paper round and with the money I got for that I saved up to go to Greece. It just goes to show if a person really wants to travel and they save up slowly in a clever way like your grandparents traveling is possible.

Well I first thank you for sharing your story here angelican about change. My best story about using change would be like if my family was waiting for my boyfriend to get paid from his job we would get into the change to eat off of. You know change really does add up and if I see change or dollar bills I pick it up. You never know when you might need it. Take care and happy mylotting to you as well.

Wow! That's a pretty cool story. I definitely save change and keep it collecting in a jar in my house. I have been able to find about $100 in the last year or so, just from things I find on the ground and when I return bottles from my house, but nothing to the extent that your grandparents found! That's amazing. Good for them for saving their pennies! It just goes to show how small things can really add up!

First of all thank you for sharing the story .... really nice one. It is quite amusing that in this way how many things do we just ignore or leave around in life and move on ....... but if we had kept it with us someday it would have been of great value. Its a story of your grandparents so tell me does this think of collecting loose change work now too ........ I mean do you find as much till now in similar place and if that is so then you too might consider collecting it ...isn't it? It will be fun if you could also go to some vacation with the collected change ..... good luck.

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