Coin Conundrum

[kigs]

I have four containers full of assorted coins and can't find out how to turn them in.

I've heard that if you want to trade them in at the bank, you need to put them in the appropriate tubes.
With four containers, I imagine that by the time I finished rolling coins, the government will have been overthrown and established a new form of currency.

Yet, those things at the groccery stories where you pour in the change take 10%.
This is a problem, as I am a miserly old bag of rage.

Are there any other options?
Has anyone ever done this before?
How do you suggest going about doing this?
~Kigs

PS:
I love Gyl's mood icons. Everytime I see the "Geeky" icon wearing both goggles and glasses, I crack up.

Comments

[thornwolf.livejournal.com]

buy one of those piggy banks that sort the change for you THEN roll them. no counting involved.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

I havn't seen one of those since the 90's.

[thornwolf.livejournal.com]

ebay?

[thornwolf.livejournal.com]

search for "coin sorter" and youll get tons of results of all different price ranges. if you type in "coin sorting bank" you get results for barbie products D:

[exoditedragon.livejournal.com]

I've got one in my closet, but it's busted.

[gizmo-nine.livejournal.com]

they sell coin sorters at walmart...

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I saw them recently...like at Wal-Mart? My husband has one, it says "Easy Money" on the side, but it's an old one. The battery thingie was broken, but he managed to wire it up to a 3 volt adapter and it sorting again :-)

[iguanaartgirl.livejournal.com]

They sell them at office supply stores. I passed by one in Staples when I was looking for self-laminating sheets for AC.

[areitu.livejournal.com]

You mean kiggy bank?

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Puns!

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Are you sure about the bank's policy? 'Cos at my bank, if you bring them in rolled up, they'll just unroll them and run them through their coin counting machine. If your bank does that, you won't have to roll them!

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Which Bank do you have?

[silvertailwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, if you don't mind turning those coins into music (iTunes, Virgin), coffee (Starbucks), books (Borders, Amazon), or movies (Hollywood Video), some of those those coinstar machines at the grocery stores will waive their processing fee provided you put that cash into a gift card for those establisments.

[chlorophyta.livejournal.com]

I actually sort my coins before tossing them into a jar. I have a jar for quarters, a jar for dimes, and a jar for nickels. For pennies, I have an empty 2.5 gallon water jug. I don't mind spending the time rolling silver change individually, and I plan to just do the pennies in a coinstar machine- the simplified process is worth it for pennies, even if not for dimes, nickels, and quarters. =)

[painteddog.livejournal.com]

Call the bank, see if they have a sorter.

If not, go to Walmart, Target, ect in the stationary section, with the folders, office stuff and safes. Get some tubes and a plastic coin sorter. Then all you have to do is separate the types of coins and toss a handful into the sorter until it's full. 99% of them you can also stick the tube into so all you must do is close them.

I'm glad you like the icons babe. ♥

[cass-rising.livejournal.com]

If the bank doesn't have a sorter, and you don't want to spend money buying your own (you miser you), then I suggest the following ritual, which I did every week when I waited tables:

Pour a tall glass of your drink of choice. Select a movie that you've seen a few times, but still enjoy watching - one that you don't always have to be looking at the screen for. Sit on the floor, drink, sort. Having another person there makes it more fun (and faster!).

[duncanroo.livejournal.com]

It's 8.9% at Coin Star. I say bite the bullet. I dumped my change before I left for Australia, couldn't find a "free" option like at my old bank on the east coast...so I would have either had to roll the coin myself or hit a Coin Star machine and pay them to do the dirty work.

If you have a big purchase in the future at Amazon, you can just convert it to credit there and waive the 8.9% But I think they have to mail you your gift card, which takes a couple of days.

-- Duncan

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

Look for a product on ebay or the internet called Easy money, it's a battery operated change sorter. :D

[acrothdragon.livejournal.com]

Well some banks can take loose change and chas it in for you. You might also tri those small check cashing services they sometimes take loose change. If you live near a casino heck they'll do it course the temptation of gambling it away is there. the little coin sorters or just seperating it and counting each demonation putting them in zip loc bags.

[mokie-low.livejournal.com]

I have a coin sorter from when Del and I were doing the change thing that you can use. It probably needs batteries, though.

[kigeni.livejournal.com]

Sweet!
Could you check on that and tell me what kind of batteries you need?

[hvincent.livejournal.com]

at commerce banks back home they have a penny arcade that you can just dump everything in and it sorts the coins and counts them and prints out a receipt, which you can turn in for cash. you don't have to be a member of the bank to do it...though i dunno if you have commece banks around where you live.

[atomicstoney.livejournal.com]

Even with the fee, Coinstars are godly. It's saved my ass many a time when I was living on my own.

[kulhain.livejournal.com]

None of the battery operated coin sorters I have used worked very well for anything more than a few handfuls of change. I just use Coinstar and suck up the loss.

--
Lost Dragon

[iguanaartgirl.livejournal.com]

My Commerce Bank has a counting machine like the ones in supermarkets, but it doesn't deduct anything. Plus, it has a little feature that lets you guess how much money you have, and if you're within like $5 then you get a PRIZE (it's a kid bank shaped like the Commerce Bank's logo). The television screen prompts are of this little animated girl named "Penny Arcade" who I WISH I could slap, but that's really the only negative.

Maybe there's a bank around you that has one? Or possibly your bank has a coin-counting machine behind the counter that you can use free of charge?

[kurtbatz.livejournal.com]

How could you possibly find goggles funny? It's not as if my ones make me look like Anakin Skywalker or anything....