9/365: Jars full of coins
Oct. 9th, 2008 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valadilenneThey kind of suggest a real commitment to something peripheral, don't they? My mother insists on getting rid of change around the house unless it's a sentimental kind of thing. I have 23 pennies minted in each year that I've been alive, and the silver-colored coinage for my birth year.
Old people aren't the only ones who do it--I think some people just like collecting something without having to inventory it or pay much attention beyond watching the levels rise. I do think it's a bit dangerous to have a water cooler jug filled with coins like my grandpa does, though. Someone might steal it and take off with your cash.
I like seeing jars full of coins without any rhyme or reason apart from just a mass collection of extra money. I can't hold onto change long enough, but I do have a brandy balloon in my room that I've been putting a few coins into here and there.
The appeal, I suppose, is the reward you get at the end: you can take it all to a coin machine or the bank and have them give you paper money instead.
Old people aren't the only ones who do it--I think some people just like collecting something without having to inventory it or pay much attention beyond watching the levels rise. I do think it's a bit dangerous to have a water cooler jug filled with coins like my grandpa does, though. Someone might steal it and take off with your cash.
I like seeing jars full of coins without any rhyme or reason apart from just a mass collection of extra money. I can't hold onto change long enough, but I do have a brandy balloon in my room that I've been putting a few coins into here and there.
The appeal, I suppose, is the reward you get at the end: you can take it all to a coin machine or the bank and have them give you paper money instead.