Where do you store your pocket change?

I spend it. Why deal with jugs of change when you can just spend it as you go.

 

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It gets spent ASAP.

 

Cents I use at the drive thru's. Nickels and dimes
are spent also at the drive thru's. Last time I spent
a quarter Reagan was early into his first term. Over
70+ quart jars stashed in the guest room closet.
I've always been fond of quarters even though I
never seriously collected them. I do have 35 Unc.
rolls of quarters that I saved from the melting pot
that I bought 2003.

 

Well thought out!!!

 

Well, I'm late to this party, but this is a great thread!!!

I use several different containers, but my favorites are the "Crown" sacks - purple, black, green, & tan (tan is from the "Reserve" - I don't have enough tan).

The grandkids think they are pirate treasures!

 

OK, that really is AWESOME!

 

I don't know how much money you have there, but I think you'd get a pretty penny for the bottle from a collector. LOL

 

I used to save my change in a large glass decanter but now I pick out coins of interest and store them in coin tubes then spend the rest as needed. The idea of saving pocket change goes back to the depression and lack of trust in the banks. It was a way to save for needed items, but most youngsters today don't see it that way.

 

Coin Tender - cheap, quick and easy pocket change storage device - about $10

 

I can't see buying that. I would have to buy thousands of dollars worth of coin tenders to store my change in them.

I guess I could use the boxes separately too from the tender itself. So 2 containers in one purchase. I still would have to buy lots of them.

 

Thats crazy

 

It is. This is how you store cash.

 

Lol. Jack benny has nothing on you

 

I think I botched my math. I was thinking 3x 330,000,000 = 1 billion.
but that's dollars. It's 300 pennies x= 100 billion pennies or 1 billion dollars in pennies. At the old 4% rate that's 40 million dollars a year in interest wasted sitting in jars.

 

Well, it's not so much the math as it is the concept......& when you think about it....holy cow!!!!!!

 

My curiosity won't let me accumulate coins in jars or antique lunchboxes. Really liked the butter cookie tin.

I use an old mousepad upside down ( black rubber up) and I sort my pocket change by date taken from circulation, arranged oldest to newest by denomination and always process cents first. If it passes scrutiny for wear and Wexler, then it goes into a flip. I currently have about 60 coins awaiting inspection. I used to save all pre-83 copper cents but discovered this was an excersize in futility.

Everything else is returned to circulation...Spark

 

Late to this thread due to travel.

I keep my pocket change in two metal coin banks rendered in the style of British phone booths. I brought these back from a trip to the UK a few years ago. I think they were originally filled with bits of taffy.

 

@Maxfli The Doctor would be proud!