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spare change: $15.65.

Interesting. If i did this for a whole year, i could save up almost $200. Just in loose change. (at least $2 of that is pennies that I've found while cleaning)

Dishes are running, drier is running. In about thirty minutes, I'm going to work to get my paycheck, then out shpping for a while. I'm off all day. (purrr)

It's bitter cold down here and there were snow flurries. I drove the kids to school.

Jonner tells me when the bears come out of hibernation (teddy bears, in his classroom) there will be a tea party. This sounds like a lot of fun.

Morning meds, some caffiene and then on to Library of Doom 2: Revenge of the video tapes.

ETA: $17.53 as of tonight. I can't believe I found almost $2 in change today!

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I lived in Reading for a couple of years, and as even the bus drivers gave change (and as I was earning a well-above-average income) I used to get rid of my spare change (pennies, tuppences, fives) in a wooden bowl on the chest-of-drawers in my bedroom. Well, until the bowl overflowed. Then I set up jars to sort the change into. I kept meaning to take it to the bank.

I did, eventually, and found that in less than two years I'd saved nearly thirty pounds - all just in spare change.

Still have the wooden bowl, but my income is such that right now I'm counting my pennies - and the bus drivers in Edinburgh don't give change, so most of the time when I dig into the bowl it's because I need change for the bus fare. It's only half full now, and all the little silver fives are gone.