Do you look your money before you spent it?.

I check my wife's change all the time. She gripes about it, like I am robbing Ft. Knox, but I have liberated some early dated Jeffersons, and Lincolns from the abyss of her purse.

 

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Well, I don't use much change, but I always ask my wife to look through her purse all the time, she comes up with some nice finds from time to time, but then complains that I steal from here and that never pay her back... That is true... I always forget to pay it back...

 

look at my purse

why man is always like a thief when come to searching coin from women's purse?.

 

No idea, you better ask my wife...

 

I rarely find many interesting things in my change... but since I've started my current job as a cashier have found all kinds of nice stuff. I always show up at least 10 minutes early so can search through what's in the drawer before starting my shift. Anything nice I find I buy out of the drawer. So far have a nice collection of SBA's and Sacagaweas, a 1937 buffalo nickel, quite a few wheat cents, and a silver dime, a few older Jefferson nickels, etc. A bunch of Canadian pennies. Keeping my eyes open for whatever may be in there! The buffalo nickel came out of a sealed nickel roll straight from the bank we get our change from.

 

look before you spend it

now i don't like to collect rolls. because after few years. if you open up a roll. some coins became tone and dark with spot. it's ugly. and you can not even look inside a roll to see what had happened to those coins you loved. it is better to collect and buy mint products with a capsule and sleeves.

 

Do I check my coins? I've saved every state quarter I have received in change since they were orig. released. Today I cashed them in. $653.00 TOTALLY unsearched!! Then there's my other pocket-change "piggy" bank where my regular quarters, dimes and nickels go every night. It takes about 2 years to fill it and usually totals approx. $500 when I cash it in. Also TOTALLY unsearched.

 

Yep, sure do. I go through all of it. I keep every penny older than 1982, all nickels older than 1960 and, oh yeah, anything silver. Haven't gotten any silver in actual change in about a year. We did have a 1930s $10 bill in the cash register at work a few months ago. I was tempted to trade for it, but it was pretty beat.

 

searching the change

these few days, i keep searching change from anything i bought. hopefully to find any 2006 jefferson nickels and nevada quarters. but can't find any.

 

I too am having the problem of seldom getting change due to the credit card usage. Every store, gas station and just about everywhere I go they take the plastic. I'm afraid that soon there will be no such thing as money. I've watched lines in stores and noticed that only about 1 in 10 use cash. Everyone else uses credit cards or checks. I hate people that use checks. They always wait until everything is done to start filling them out. Ties up everybody. However, about once a month I go to the bank and get rolls of haves, nickels, dimes and occationally a $50 bag of pennies. Go through them all and take the whole thing back. Being a really good customer they don't charge and don't complain.

 

When I'm bored at work, I take whatever clad I have and go to the vending machines, put the coins in and push the coin return button to get different coins. I'm usually disappointed, but I'll get pre1960 jefferson's quite a bit, but I don't save those unless they have some numismatic value, otherwise it's the 1983 washington quarters and the early 1980s jefferson nickels I get. If i'm lucky in the early months of the year, I'll get a nice looking new coin for the year. Still have yet to get a 2006 of any denomination yet.
Just now starting to hold on to pre-1982 pennies in the hope that they will have some copper value. yes, I do occasionally look through the wife's change. She's very carless with it. I still, to date, have not found a single 90% silver coin in change. I did find a 1953 rosie sitting on the sidewalk in my driveway and my 3 year old son found a mercury dime sitting on our garage floor (our house was buil tin 1997 along with the other houses in this development, so who knows where that came from..), but Nothing ever from change and I check all the time.