November 26, 2009

Weekend Spending Money

Took in my change bucket to get some real money for the weekend.

$126.52 Yippee.

Rejects:

  • One perfectly good dime.
  • Two Advil (whoops).
  • One quarter that appears to have a hole punched out of it. I'll have to try to use that one for laundry!

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May 27, 2009

Fiscally Responsible Follow-Up

So you may remember me downgrading both my phone/Internet and cable services recently in an effort to be more fiscally responsible considering I won't have an income for the last half of 2009 and probably all of 2010 (OMG! AM I CRAZY?!?! WHY am I returning to the world of poverty?!?!)....

I'm happy to report that I have now gotten my first full bills post the changes and am now paying $55 LESS per month for cable and $53 LESS per month for phone/Internet. I *could* bring my cable down another $40 if I gave up Sci Fi channel (well....other channels as well, but that's the only one that concerns me) but I am planning to watch Warehouse 13 (OK it seems like a lame X-Files rip-off but I love Eddie McClintock (remember when he was Sully on Bones? Ah, Sully.)) this summer and Caprica this fall so I figure I'll keep it for now...

Aren't you proud of me? Still working on controlling my eating & my spending, my two big self-destructive areas of the moment, but you know, there's still time. I do have a job for another two months, you know! :)

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October 07, 2008

Once again, world's oldest profession infiltrates my wallet.

There are currently 15 18 stupid one-dollar bills in my wallet. You KNOW how that annoys me.

There are no strip club visits in my immediate future, so I really don't need all this waddage.

Plus they're all nasty, crumpled, soiled, disgusting bills. Thanks, cabbies.

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September 20, 2008

Dinner's on me!

Change turned into real money at Coinstar this morning = $177.09. Woot.

Change rejected by the machine:

  • Three perfectly good umblemished dimes.
  • One shiny shiny penny.

Fewest rejects ever. But also oddest rejects ever. (There were some mighty moldy pennies accepted!)

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February 09, 2008

Just another trip to Coinstar.

Total change turned in for "real money" = $144.50.

"Change" rejected by Coinstar:

  • Another Boston T token.*
  • One 2-cent Euro.
  • One Canadian dime.
  • One British penny.
  • One, presumably U.S., penny so molded over and verdigreed that I think it might grow a tree if I planted it.
  • One U.S. penny just barely beginning to mold.
  • One U.S. dime, the side ridges of which seem to have somehow been replaced by the outside edge of a penny? I mean, it's a dime, silver 10-cent piece, but instead of the thin silver scored outer rim a normal dime has, it has a smooth copper rim that extends past the edge on both sides (i.e., is for a fatter coin than a dime). Bizarre!
  • One perfectly normal U.S. dime.
  • And a perfectly good U.S. quarter.

So one transit coin, three non US, two US degraded, one US bizarro, and two perfectly good coins that should have been accepted as Legal currency.


*It's got to be the Walgreens by work that keeps giving me these. I don't know if they're even still valid tokens!

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November 23, 2007

Fat Wallet.

Dunkin Donuts gave me $18 change in ONES Wednesday night (late night hot chocolate in the pelting, icy rain).

A big wad of ones in my wallet = that's what I call "stripper money."

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May 09, 2007

Coinstar Rejects.

I used to post about this on the blog all the time; I think it needs its own category here on Snip.

I do not use change. Any change given to me when I buy lunch or stamps or snacks or what have you is dumped into my bag and then dumped into a change jug when I get home. When it gets full, I cash it in and it's generally about $200 (given the size of the jug, the fact that I dump ALL change in it and only dig out quarters for laundry occasionally). It is always a surprise to find what Coinstar rejects when I take it in as often there is change from countries I have never been to so clearly I got handed this AS IF it was legitimate currency when someone was giving me change for a purchase. Shortly after a Coinstar run, I become a Change Nazi, carefully looking over everything they hand me back. But of course, shortly after that, I forget...

Anywho, here's this week's round of Coinstar Rejects:

  • One Boston T token.
  • One Canadian 10-cent piece
  • One dull British 10-pence piece
  • One sparkly French Franc. Hello they don't even use these in France anymore, but someone in the US is giving me them as change? Lame!
  • One dirty 25-centime piece from the Dominican Republic. Hello!

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