Do you have a habit of keeping the loose coins?

I have two cans for collecting coins. One is where I keep quarters to wash and dry clothes on the weekends. The other I put away pennies for Christmas. The day after Christmas I take my girls to a coin star to redeem the can of pennies and they get to split the money to buy something that has now been clearanced. It teaches them to save and to bargain shop at the same time!

We have a jar for the small amounts that go to the grandchildren. the larger coins get put into folders and occasionally to the bank for larger paper money. The US has new state quarters, nickles that i roll up and save as i did the bicentennial coins.

I do not plan or make savings in this way. But I have a habit of keeping coins of about 10 INR for my small expenditures. In no case, I ignore the worth of these coins those join to make a large value of money for a bigger purchase! Thanks for this nice topic on keeping coins and have better savings always, because money saved is money earned!!

hi. my brother got a small coin bank for that while i would keep them all in my wallet for faster and easier access. though he has been ecncouraging me to do that to the point of giving me his spare coin bank which i havent used for months. maybe i should get into that habit. happy mylotting.

Yes I do keep coins. I always collect Php 5 or 10 pesos coins, these are the bigger denomination of Philippine pesos. Then I put them on a piggy bank. When its full, I open it and to be added to my next deposit it in my account. Or sometimes, when the budget is low, I could use it for emergency case.

Yes, I started doing this when I was a little child, maybe before primary school. Now I'll graduate from university in July. at least 16 years have past, My collection have thousands of coins, i can't even count them.

Yes I do. Most especially the P5 and P10 denominations. I also use it for future use. For example my goal today for the coins that I have been keeping is for the birthday party of my children. I was able to save quite a big amount already. I can use it for shopping for the food and other things needed for the party. In that case I wouldn't be coming out of the big amount instantly from my wallet because I was already able to save all those coins. I have an aunt who has these big fish bowl at home full of P10 and P5 as well. I remember last time when my uncle had been sick and they had to bring him to the hospital and the medicines were very expensive those coins where very helpful. It reached the amount of P23,000. So I think for all of us here maybe we should make it a habit to save even for just a few coins, we wouldn't know it when it will come so handy for us.

I keep them also, and my youngest son always finds coins on the ground outside. He saves them in his "piggy-bank" and when it's full, he brings them to the bank and deposits them in his savings account. He's found found nearly $150 in coins over the last 4 years (at Disney last summer, he found more than $4 in one day!) A little coin info... the metals used to mint USA pennies prior to 1982 are actually worth twice as much as the coin! And the metals used to make a nickle are worth a little over 6 cents last time I looked. No wonder why the US made so silly law claiming it's a crime to melt down pennies and nickles...how can melting down YOUR money be a crime...maybe it's not really my money...hmmm

My change never gets spent. I leave it in the bottom of my purse. When i change my purse it goes into my cash box after a acumulation it gets rolled up then goes to the bank.

Yah,i also like saving coins. I have two coin bank in my room where i put 25 cents. 25 cents here in my country is less value esp with kids. They won't accept it when you gave them 25 cents,so,what i did is to save those coins and when i know i already saved enough,bring it to the bank for a paper bill. Sometimes,my youngest son took those coins and bring to store that needs coins,and there he can bought some candies.

I sure do share your habit. I always have coins sorted by value and in small boxes. Recently i went to bank and changed my change to bills and the counting machine probably made a mistake for 20c but i didn't want to wait another 5 minutes for recount so i gave an extra 20c coin. And i collect coins from 1€ down(50c is the first one) and i got a 50€ bill! Just love coins:P

yes I do, I keep them to use in the bus. There are different rates for the the destinations and if you keep collecting coins from the bus conductor your wallet will be full of it. So better to keep the existing ones and use them. I have a container in which I store all the coins and get some of them every day as per the requirement in the bus.

i don't keep them. when i see one, i take it and put it on a table or something. i don't like leaving any kind of money on the floor and let it get sweep by a broom or anything that would make it end up in a trash can.

Sometimes, I take it and put it in my pocket. Then, when I get home, I put in a jar which I keep all my loose change. Then, when it is filled, I bring it to the bank and exchange it for cash. (: I know someone that if they see a penny tails down on the floor, they will take it and place it head side up and walk away.

I have a coin collection but generally those are rare coins. The loose change we have goes to our children, as my wife and I like to see them save up. It's something we feel is very important, as with life now they will want money to buy things that they see and they need to understand the importance of putting cash on the side and doing things to earn it.

Yes I have a piggy bank. But me I only keep the new one peso coins, new five peso coins and new ten peso coin. I also have the 25 cents but until now I stop doing it as I always need it when traveling. Yes it could save us, I did not have a transportation money before , last year to be exact. I crash my piggy bank and I used the coins as my transportation money. I did bought a new piggy coin bank after and I put all the coins the way I keep it before. Until now that piggy bank is still not been crashed since I still have money for transportion.

I usually take my loose coins and put them away in my chest of drawers. I'd never throw a coin away. I even pick them up off the ground and keep them.

We do as well..with quarters going to laundry, cents going to a jar on the shelf and everything else going to busfare and the munchies machine at work. When the cents add up to enough we cash out and use for groceries..Enjoy!

I do collect coins. The only thing that I cannot do is that put them in one place. I place them in a drawer, in the box or in the table. I use them in times that I am short with my budget also. It's effective because loose coins save me in times that I really do not have available money to spend. I also know some one like you that collects and segregate coins by value and its great because he always have money to spend.

Here in india our currency is rupee, we have 5, 1, 2 ruppe coins, plus half, quarter, one fifth, one tenth, one twentith, one fiftith even one hundreth of a rupee coins, in the mall we see only 5, 2, 1 and half ruppe coins, others are not seen, they lost their value totally, a begger also is reluctant to accept one rupee coin these days In my purse you may find some 5, 2, 1 rupee coins lol Thank you so much for this post. Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . God bless you. Welcome always.