Hellobee Boards Topic: How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?

Hellobee Boards Topic: How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 21 May 2026 18:36:55 +0000 Arden on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225900 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:30:24 +0000 Arden 225900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have a change purse I dump it all into, but I really need to sort out the lek, dinar, pounds, euros, canadian, and and forints out of there until we're back on the road. I'm forever giving people wrong currency coins. tequiero21 on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225864 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:37:33 +0000 tequiero21 225864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ He it in those plastic containers they give at Chinese fast food places. Since we're moving, cleaned it up and deposited $120 at the bank... Lol. banana on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225191 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:53:26 +0000 banana 225191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a plastic piggy bank (like literally looks like a pig) and we make our son put coins in it. He loves doing that. He figured out quickly that you can't take the coins out so he knows that once it goes in, it stays in there. lovehoneybee on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225186 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:51:48 +0000 lovehoneybee 225186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We use a large wide-mouthed wine jug. Chillybear on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225152 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:26:53 +0000 Chillybear 225152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a big glass jar in our living room - i bought it home goods when we first moved in together. After 2 years we accumulated over $500. We used it as our puppy fund and it paid for the $250 adoption fee from the rescue where we got darwin plus initial vet visits and pet supplies. purrpletulips on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225096 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:03:31 +0000 purrpletulips 225096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ DH is the big coin contributor in our house and we have a bowl on the dresser, a large container full in our gun safe, random coins on the floor (I pick them up when I find them but so does DD who either gives them to me or asks to put them in her bank). We should roll what we have and deposit it in the bank but apparently keeping it around comforts DH. cyndistar3 on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225081 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:51:34 +0000 cyndistar3 225081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a jar that we put it in though theres never much in there because we rarely use cash. LuLu Mom on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225062 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:43:48 +0000 LuLu Mom 225062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a jar that we stick it all in, we call it our vacation fund! Last time we cashed in almost 200 dollars, nice spending money for a getaway! Running Elley on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-225031 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:35:02 +0000 Running Elley 225031@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We put them in a mason jar that we have sitting on our dresser. Alivoo01 on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224992 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:13:29 +0000 Alivoo01 224992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Hubby tosses them all over the house on top of tables, nightstands, countertops, etc. Once a week, I'll sweep through the house and put them into a piggybank. twinmama on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224903 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:29:01 +0000 twinmama 224903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We typically just transfer it into a bag of change in each of our cars for feeding parking meters. If those get overfull, we make a trip to coinstar. chopsuey on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224832 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:38:47 +0000 chopsuey 224832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ we rarely use cash. heffalump on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224693 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:00:16 +0000 heffalump 224693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a big container, I honk it was from our animal crackers from costco. It all goes in there, or if we're in the car we put it in a drawer so we have it for meters and food. looch on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224658 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:32:00 +0000 looch 224658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I use coins a lot. My friends totally hate when we go out for coffee and I pull out my change purse. We have big denomination coins (5 and 1) as well as 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents and 5 cents. I make piles of the 20 and 10 cent ones will my friends hide under the table. mediagirl on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224651 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:29:56 +0000 mediagirl 224651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We use a giant pickle jar. It was filled to the brim and emptied for our honeymoon. It's 1/4 full now. We're not as diligent about filling it anymore. Need to get back on that! PawPrints on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224637 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:47:28 +0000 PawPrints 224637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I never use cash, so I never, ever have coins floating around. My husband sure does, though. It's just amazing to me how coins will just fall out of his clothes all over the couch, the floors, everywhere. I tell him he's pooping money and needs to clean it up. We have a big bowl on the counter in our master bathroom, randomly, and it goes in there. (Used to go in a big wooden old jewelry/watch/cigar box, whatever it is, but it overflowed max capacity so it's the bowl now). autumnlove on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224577 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:29:27 +0000 autumnlove 224577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We take jars of coins to a Coinstar machine every year! matador84 on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224564 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:58:45 +0000 matador84 224564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have an old vase I don't use that is cute-zebra print, and we put the change in that. skibobrown on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224535 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:31:22 +0000 skibobrown 224535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a big bowl, and we trade it in at a CoinStar machine every once in a while. Sweet T on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224528 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:28:53 +0000 Sweet T 224528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We usually put it in LOs piggy bank. Mrs. Blue on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224485 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:07:22 +0000 Mrs. Blue 224485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a 5-gallon water container that we throw all our change into and save it to cash in for our vacations. Since it is has a small opening and the change is a foot or two down, I think it would be relatively child-safe. Andrea on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224451 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:40:11 +0000 Andrea 224451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a "piggy bank" not really a pig but it all goes in there. We take it to the bank when it is full. DD loves bank trips to use the change machine. mrsjazz on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224386 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:06:39 +0000 mrsjazz 224386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We keep it in a vase and roll the change once it's full. That loose change helped paid for half my MacBook! regberadaisy on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224382 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:05:53 +0000 regberadaisy 224382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have this humongous plastic coke bottle change jar. All the change goes in there. Every now and then -usually before vacation- we roll it and deposit it! Rubies on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224377 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:03:24 +0000 Rubies 224377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Hubs has a big bowl on his night table and his loose change goes there. PinkBee on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224372 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:00:23 +0000 PinkBee 224372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have an empty texas mickey of rye that we put all the extra change into. Once when the texas mickey was half full with change we rolled it all and took it to the bank - it turned out to be $114!!!!!!!!! Boogs on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224371 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:59:23 +0000 Boogs 224371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a little container in our office closet we store it in. When it fills up we roll the coins and deposit them in the bank. wheres_c on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224369 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:58:54 +0000 wheres_c 224369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have ziplock bags in my closet. What's worse is I have bags for usd, pesos, pounds, sols, and euros. It comes in handy to grab A bag when I travel, or grab the us bag and take it to coinstar. mrbee on "How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-guys-manage-all-the-loose-change-that-piles-up-in-your-house#post-224365 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:56:24 +0000 mrbee 224365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We used to leave them on shelves and then transfer them into a big bowl, but Charlie likes to steal the money! So now we mostly throw them directly in a big bowl on the top of a bookshelf. It's not really convenient, but it's childsafe at least. How do you guys manage all the loose change that piles up in your house?