ThriftyFun Logo
Home   Find   Ask   Share   Answer   Join   Index   Login  
 
 User Login:  Username:    Password:      Forgot It?  | Join ThriftyFun!

 - Beauty
 - Budget and Finance
 - Cleaning
 - Consumer Advice
 - Craft Projects
 - Craft Tips
 - Food Tips
 - Garage Sales
 - Gardening
 - Gifts
 - Green Living
 - Home Improvement
 - Organizing
 - Parenting
 - Parties
 - Pest Control
 - Pets
 - Product Reviews
 - Recipes
 - Repair
 - Weddings for Less

RSS Feed
About Us
Media
Advertising
Contact Us
Privacy Statement
Disclaimer

Money Saving Tip: Hold Onto Your Change

1x1
Date: 07/01/2005 Topic: Budget & Finance > Saving Money  
1x1
Post Feedback | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Print | Print (With Feedback) | Rate: Thumbs Up Thumbs Down | Bookmark and Share
If it is hard for you to save money, only spend dollar bills and save all the change you get in a jar or container at home. My daughter and fiance' have been doing this for the last 2 months and have $150.00 already. It is easy and fun to watch it grow...

By Lois C
(1x1 graphic )
Previous: Transplanting Seedlings ThriftyFun Next: Silicone Mats for Baking
(1x1 graphic )
1x1
1x1
 Feedback
1x1
1x1
1x1

By Tree.007 (2) Contact
Saving money is not difficult as we think about. Actually, it's quite easy! And up to now I have saved much money.

Posted on 05/12/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By luke (Guest Post)
Started saving about 2 1/2 years ago and not only will it help me out with money and with bills, but also gives you self control in this world. and I don't want to bring it to the bank, until I am all done with school and cash it in before college.

Posted on 05/06/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By the future (Guest Post)
My mom brought me one a jar for Christmas its actually the best gift that I could have been given. I do mines a little different. I first save all my change. I also save the paper bills. If I have $20 dollars in my wallet, I'll take up to $10 of it and place it in the Jar. I now have $375.00 saved. My next goal is over the next six pay periods is to place $100 hundred dollars of each bill into the jar. I am starting with the one dollar bills first.

I have now begun to place the nickels and pennies back into circulation.(or you can take to bank and trade in for quarters or buy the change from yourself and use for dumb little purchases) This gives you more room to store dimes and quarters which you know have a higher monetary value. I think I will safe upwards to $3000 this year due to me becoming more aggressive... and its fun for me anyway.

Posted on 03/13/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse

By carol (Guest Post)
I save all my change, which does add up, but I take it one step further. When I get my $100 check at the first of the month, I cash it, then buy two rolls of quarters(in other words, I pay myself first,) Those two rolls of quarters go home with me right into my Home EF. I detest spending coins, so having $20 in quarters on hand is my insurance that I won't be spending the quarters, plus I have extra money on hand. The rest is then carefully budgeted right down to the last dollar. I use the old fashioned envelope method which really helps me track my spending and keeps me on target with my budget.

Posted on 05/02/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

By PJ (Guest Post)
My husband and I did this years ago and saved enough for airfare to Puerto Rico and a one week car rental!

Posted on 10/27/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Lorraine Keelty (Guest Post)
This must be a very old tip - how long since we had dollar notes???? years and years. and also since we had any coin smaller than a 5c...... or do you still have these in USA - in Australia our smallest note is $5..... so not too practical to put all the $2 and $1 coins in a jar - well possible - but if you give $5 for something which costs 50 c then you have to put $4.50 away - you would soon run out of money if you are on a limited income.

Editor's Note: In the U.S. and Canada we have 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 cent and one dollar coins and 1 (in more limited use 2) dollar bills, 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s and on up.

In Australia, you might only want to save the small coins and spend the dollar coins.

Posted on 10/07/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Juanita Biere (Guest Post)
This is a great idea except for most people think that they have to hold on to all change. As a checker, if a person's total is $3.26, I always ask my customers if they have a penny. It annoys me to death when I hear " I throw all of my change in the jar", Well if you can just keep a couple of pennys on you then it will save time because if I only have to pull out a penny instead of 2 dimes and 4 pennys it will save alot of time. Quite often I will get one of these people that "throw of their change in the jar" and they don't even have 1 penny. I might have 3 pennys in my till so I have to take the time to break open another roll of pennys instead of helping the next person. Can you tell that I work at a very hight volume store?

Posted on 10/07/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By ThriftyFun (3117) Profile Blog! Contact
When making purchases, use only paper bills. The change you receive goes into a jar and eventually gets rolled and deposited into a vacation fund or christmas account at your bank. Watch you savings grow!

By Beth Daley

Posted on 07/01/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By ThriftyFun (3117) Profile Blog! Contact
Save all your loose change then put it in your savings account. Get one of those battery operated banks that sorts it for you.

By joni514

Posted on 03/22/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Maria B. (Guest Post)
This is so true, holding on to your change and putting it in jars does really add up at the end of the year......I also do another way of saving change..in my checkbook I round off the dollar amounts off to the nearest dollar.. it also makes subtracting in the register easier...... by doing this we're able to take yearly family trips.... Have a wonderful day in all you do!

Posted on 03/14/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Mojjo (13) Contact
We just started this in January. I'm hoping it pays for the stocking stuffers this year. Any extra will be great.

Posted on 03/12/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By evelyn. chatham (Guest Post)
we save our change at christmas we wrap it (have around 8 hundred to a thousand dollars) we go to pigeon forge for 3 or4 days give our grandsons 50.00 each for christmas (it pays for our room eat / shows) grandsons go to galtinton tenn. ice skateing, snow boggling, go carts we have a great time (oh i have to roll the change.)

Posted on 03/09/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By ThriftyFun (3117) Profile Blog! Contact
I quite often let the Coinstar machine count the pennys and sometimes the nickels too but pull out all of the larger coins. That way even though they charge a little their percentage of a bunch of pennies isn't much and it saves me from having to count and roll them up. Then I roll up the larger coins and take them to the bank. Most banks will still give you rolling tubes but require you to write your account number on them which is much easier to do before you roll them than after.

Susan from ThriftyFun

Posted on 03/09/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

By ThriftyFun (3117) Profile Blog! Contact
Save your change in a jar at the end of each week and soon you'll have a jackpot to go out on the town or on a trip or whatever you desire.

By Beth Henderson

Editor's Note: Jeffery Strain recently submitted an article with an interesting take on the pitfalls of saving your change, especially if you use a service like CoinStar to cash in your coins. Basically, don't use CoinStar machines, you will end up getting less than face value for your savings.

http://www.thriftyfun.com/finances/tf976624_fin.html

Posted on 03/09/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

1x1
1x1
 Post Feedback:
1x1
1x1
1x1

Login using the form on the top of the page to post feedback (if you are a registered user). If you have not yet registered, click here to do so. It's FREE!.

1x1
(1x1 graphic )

© 1997-2009 ThriftyFun.com - Design by Cumuli Design
Disclaimer: ThriftyFun.com cannot accept any responsibility for any injury or damage that you may cause to yourself, others, or property when following any advice given on this site. Read the full disclaimer. If you find any information on ThriftyFun.com or in our newsletters that is either erroneous and/or potentially harmful to others, please Contact Us, immediately.