I know I won't stop driving from bank to bank all day, but I was wondering if anyone here keeps track of their mileage/time that they spend in search of rolls/dumping coins? I know I've spent a lot of time/gas searching and am going to keep track in the same way I log what I find.
I get paid for my mileage. Doc appt. once a week 50 miles away (ins pays 55c a mile), so I hit all the banks on the way back in a rotation. Sometimes I go ouside that, but don;t count it.
I live in Houston, TX ... where we have a CVS Pharmacy across the street from a Walgreens every 5 miles. Banks are even thicker, I have 5 different Chase banks within 2 miles of my house. With my "dump" bank on the way home from work I don't really have to go out of my way to get regular boxes of cents or nickels. I do go hunting for halves on my Fridays off occasionally but I typically travel less distance than the closest mall. Someday Chase will thin out these redundant branches that they've swallowed up but even then I'll still have 2 other banks that I have accounts at to make up the slack. Heck, there's 2 credit unions at my job that I haven't even checked out yet JAC
Not really I consider it to be part of the "payment" of the hobby. Usually I can find an excuse why I need to head out that way anyway.
I drive by the multiple banks I haunt on a near daily basis - and besides I don't believe the IRS is going to let me take a mileage deduction especially whence I am in the pursuit of depleting the circulation coinage of all pre-1982 bronze coins.
