$avin It - 2/13/09

Condolenses to the family and friends of the airline accident that took 50 lives in surburban Buffalo recently. Sad story...

Today was an interesting Friday the 13th. I found 10 cents in my bathroom near the hamper and then went to Office Max to purchase a new mouse for my laptop and found a nickel. Then I found three cents at work and receieved 92 cents in change after purchasing a bag of chips and an apple soft drink...

Speaking of Pennies, what do you use them for?

Seems like most coins that are found on the ground are pennies. It is either no one cares to pick them up because they might tweak their back or they just don't think 'one damned cent' is worth it. Here is a random list of things you can do with pennies...

1. Pay 50 cents and mold the penny into a coin from your favorite attraction such as Alcatraz Island or Disneyland.
2. Collect the pennies and save it.
3. Throw them at a random incoming freshman at your high school.
4. See how high you can stack your pennies before the stack falls over.
5. Throw it into a wishing well/pond.
6. Walk, accidently drop a penny on the ground, look down at it, and say "I'm too lazy to pick that shit up," then walk away...

Interestingly, I have done pretty much everything with pennies with the exception of number 3. I actually found a couple of dollars throughout my high school days in pennies because many of the upper classmen though that it was cool to throw pennies at freshmen. Freshmen must be worth something if you are throwing money at them right? Too bad they weren't throwing $100 bills...

Total change on the day $1.10

Time to $ave it!

February $aves - $2.31
2009 $aves - $2.31

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog, $ave & Ca$h Your Coin!

My sister and I were never fans of shopping when we were younger, so to keep ourselves occupied, we always had a "friendly competition" to see how much money we could find at the shopping center. Little did I know that this would actually help me learn about money and the nuiances of the classical phrase, "A penny saved is a penny earned." I continued to stick the coins into a big jar and after saving, the total added to over $100 dollars. A hundred dollars may not be much, but to a kid, its a gold mine. How much candy or soda's can you buy with that much money?!?!

So what is this blog for? Well, back in college my buddy (who I am still good friends with today), hated the ideal of having change. Any penny, nickel, quarter, he despised, so I when I went with him to get fast food, he said that I could keep the change. Sometimes it was 37 cents, sometimes it was 15 cents, but in the long run as I saved the change, it began to add up.

I have to give credit to CNN.com article about The New York City Changepot in order to get this blog started. I really did not think that someone could blog about saving change over a period of years, but I guess any thing is blogable nowadays...

$ave & Cash Yo Coin!

-RF