Hello everyone, I made a trip to my local Coinstar machine at lunchtime. I took metal detected change, coins found in meters and coins found on the ground. I do this every 4 months. I'm saving this money for our fourth trip this year to Puerto Rico! We are going away for 3 days at the end of September.
I got excited when I saw the heading in my email, I thought you were totaling YTD or lifetime CoinStar finds.
I'm getting ready for a visit myself..I go when the gallon jug is full but I go to my local credit union which has their own "coinstar" and as I have an account don't cost me nothing to dump the change
They won't take most of the coins I get rid of. Many have environmental exposure toning damage. I clean them the best that I can and just dump them into the Coinstar. I've been doing this for years and not really concerned about the processing fees. I don't do casinos. I wouldn't even want to enter one. Thanks for your concern though. Oh, and I'm sure you have seen my finds for all my detecting trips. Look at the Cupronickel coins..
Nice Haul Paddy. How often do you jam up a coin star machine? I'm assuming you tumble the coins? Maybe add in some stainless steel shot.
I run coins through the self-checkout on most trips to the grocery store. It doesn't give me a nice lump sum to tuck away for later, but it also doesn't take a 13% cut off the top. I get groceries often enough that it keeps common coins from accumulating.
I've gotten into the habit of taking 99c (3 quarters, dime, 2 nickels, 4 cents) with me to the grocery store so that I don't end up with more change for the change basket.
I am just the opposite - I always use bills so that I can get MORE change; how else will I find that 1909S vdb? I even have my wife checking the CoinStar and the coin returns at the self-check-out at the grocery store.
Most of them don't seem any worse than a lot I get in change, but I suppose if they're all like that, they might complain. I typically have about $200 in my change jars when I roll them up, and taking an almost $30 hit to use CoinStar is not something I could stomach. That's like two 12-packs of decent beer at my local store, which is where the nice owner takes my rolls in exchange for bills.
Exactly! I might put three or four bucks worth of change into the self-checkout - but I always try to arrange it to get as close as I can to 94 cents back. (Not 99 cents, because I'd rather get a dime and a nickel than two dimes.)
