change

[bobski]

with trump trying to discontinue pennies..............i thought how it was in the day, men carried change in their pockets.
do you still do this?
sadly, i dont. but i do keep it in the car for tolls.

 

[LCP22LR]

I try not to. I do have a jar next to the bed, and laundry cause somehow it still comes home with me.

 

[txramfan]

All coins I receive are deposited in a glass container near our bed the day I receive them when we are home. While traveling I put coins in a pocket on our soft sided cooler those also go in the container.
Wife accumulates coins in her purse for a while before adding them to collection.

 

[mirglip]

Now that the bankers have completely debased our currency, they might as well do away with nickels, dimes and quarters too.
If people want coins in their pockets, maybe they could issue $1 and $5 coins.

 

[s4s4u]

I always have a few coins in my pocket.

For one, I need to have a quarter for the Aldi shopping cart.

Coins are also handy for removing battery covers on red dot sights and scopes, as well as making adjustments.

Quick measurements? A quarter = 1", a penny = 3/4".

 

[Richard76]

I try not to carry too much change because I don't like the weight, but enough so when I purchase something I don't get more however I still end up with jarfuls at home

 

[375hh1973]

I own ZERO change.

Used cash about 7 times so far in 2025.

 

[GypsmJim]

When I worked, the plant had a dozen food vending machines, so I kept change. Now, my change pocket is empty.

I use a credit card everywhere. When I NEED to pay cash, getting the change irritates me.

I put them in a jar on my dresser. Only use them at the DIY car wash in the winter because it won't accept bills.

Recent years have had enough mild days that I wash the car in the driveway, thus I got more quarters than I need.

 

[DGW1949]

I'm a cash-transaction kind of guy so yes, I accumulate a fair bit of change. Mostly, I roll it up in those old-timey paper coin holders and spend it at select stores which appreciate getting it....
Works for me.

DGW

 

[blume357]

not in my pocket usually but I do have one of those coin holders in my work van for when I go through a drive through and I'll usually pay cash and try to have the exact amount in change.

 

[Fox Mike]

Only until I get home then it goes in a container by the bed. When it's full I take it to my Credit Union, dump it in the coin counter, then I pick up the paper $$.

 

[Dan in MI]

Quarters get deposited in a jar that gets cashed into 50 dollar bills for my next gun.

Copper pennies go in a jar.

All others that are not collectible get used in purchases.

I am actively returning to cash as much as I can beyond groceries and fuel.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

I only needed coins for the high pressure car wash...but it went to card only. Everything is card only now. Thankfully I know how to check for skimmers and blue tooth covers. I haven't used coins for tolls in years, or even seen one that took coins in awhile. You don't even need EZ Pass these days as they take a pic of your LIC plate and send you the bill...

 

[GasGuzzler]

I turn coins in every day and put them in a bowl. When it gets full I take the bowl to the bank and deposit the coins in my kids' accounts to give them when they graduate high school. First two of four kids got $2500-ish each. I have one in 10th grade and one in 12th still. Then it's ALL MINE!!! Haven't kept it for myself in almost 25 years.

 

[jimbo1096]

Like most have said, things have gone to credit card so I’ll have $20-$40 in my wallet that will take several weeks to spend and then any of the change that comes back goes into a a bowl in my bedroom. Along about Christmas time I cash it in and use the money to buy presents for the grandkids.

 

[contender]

My Dad lived through the Great Depression. he was always very frugal. I was taught; "Take care of the pennies & the dollars will take care of you!"
I will stop to pick up a penny.
I use change if I have it in my pocket. Otherwise,, daily,, when I get home,, I have a few jugs I place it in.
Often,, I find "collectable" old coins. (I was a serious coin collector decades ago,, now just mildly so.) so when I get a jug full, I start rolling the coins. When I get a few hundred dollars worth,, I turn them into bills, and stash them for emergency stuff.
I also metal detect. And coins are a common find. Those get cleaned & saved as well.

Just in the past week,,just by looking,, I've probably picked up 20-30 coins in different places. Mostly pennies,, but a few other coins as well.

I use cash as much as I can so I get coins often. I like getting them,, as occasionally, I do get silver ones. Anybody checked the price of silver coins lately? The young kids at many places do NOT know the difference,, so I just smile when I find any in my change. I have also been known to get old coins in change, only to see the cashier has several in their drawer. Guess who asks for "change for a ,,,,,,,,,,!" About 2 years ago,, I got several wheat pennies like that. And one of them is worth about $40-$50 bucks!

Yep,, I take care of my pennies,, and it does pay off! Thanks Dad!

 

[TheTexasRAT]

In third grade I sold STP stickers to other kids at school during lunch. I would end up with two front pockets bulging full of change every day.

I had p e class right after lunch. When doing jumping jacks the change would jingle around in my pockets. So the p e teacher so enamored by the sound that she ended up nicknaming me Jingle Bell.

 

[Mobuck]

I always have change in my pocket. When I was working, I'd accumulate small change for/from buying lunch or a snack if I'd forgotten to bring something from home. About once a week, I'd empty the pennies and quarters--pennies went into a big jar and quarters went into a ziplock to be used at the carwash to keep the old work pickup looking respectable. I don't use change much anymore but still have about a dollar's worth in my pocket.
I'm NOT one of the 'use a card for everything' kind of guy. Son is that way. I guess it makes his expense reports easier.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I’ll have $20-$40 in my wallet that will take several weeks to spend and then any of the change that comes back goes into a a bowl in my bedroom.

Many years ago when I started the coin bowl for kids' savings I realized I needed a way to save for me ... plus I was paying a truck note off to my dad with cash. So I started getting "too much" cash from the ATM, setting some aside to stash for a payment, then using the rest for as much as I could instead of cards. Run out of cash and repeat. Once the truck was paid off in one year I continued the trend and saved up a lot of cash. But in September I quit all the bad habits that were the destination of my cash buying so savings has slowed. Now time to come up with a new plan since I rarely buy anything in person any more now that the vices are defeated. I have the same paper money in my wallet as I had last week.

 

[coachk64]

The only coin that I have in my pocket every day is a 1974 silver dollar. I carry it for luck and to freak out the millenials and Gen Z kids, who have often never seen one.
Seldom carry more than just a few bucks in my wallet unless I'm traveling, and use the debit cards for most purchases, so I don't often get change, but the little I get goes right into a large cardboard tubular box that a bottle of scotch comes in. When it's full I run it through the coin counter at the bank and use the cash for anther bottle of scotch.

 

[Tensaw]

I don't carry change. If I get any they go in a jar in the bedroom. When it fills up I convert to dollars. Usually if I get change back from the fast food window I jus tell the cashier to keep the change. BTW what is a toll?

 

[Johnnu2]

I still use coins the same way as always.... I often ask merchants: "Do you take cash here?". Yes, keep them in the pocket opposite side of my pocket knife (so they don't get stuck in the knife slots/thingies). p.s. our town still has a few parking meters; I use them so I don't have to study/learn how to use the "metered" main parking lot.

J.

 

[peachhead]

I keep some coins in my truck just in case. The rest generally goes into a jar. My wife likes to take all the quarters out of my jar for gum machines when we are out with the grandkids.
At the fair this year, I went to the local VFW booth to eat, paid with cash and got a Kennedy half dollar as change, which I thought was neat.
I do stop and pick up change on the ground when I see it.
When I run my fireworks stand I always have to have change and I always run out of pennies first, so I generally just round everything so that I don't use them as much.

 

[vito]

I used to put whatever spare change was in my pocket on top of my dresser, and then back in my pocket when I got dressed the next day. I stopped doing that many years ago. Change just goes into a container. When the container was full I would take it to the bank and convert it into folding money, but now the bank no longer takes coins. There is a machine in the supermarket that will take coins, but they keep 11% so I refuse to use that machine. So now I just end up with more than one big jar filling up with quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. I might give the full jars someday to one of my grandkids and let them put the coins into paper rolls and keep the money.

As to cash, I can well remember when I used to feel okay if I had about $20 in my wallet. Now I like to have at least $200, and when I drop much below that, I stop at the ATM machine (my bank reimburses me for the fees that the machine charges). One of my grown sons routinely goes about his regular day with zero cash, using a credit card for even the smallest expense. I just don't feel comfortable without cash in my wallet. And I keep an emergency stash of usually at least $300 in cash in my small safe in my dresser, as a just in case reserve.

 

[coachk64]

I routinely go on road trips for work, usually anywhere from three days to a week. I generally stop at the ATM before leaving to get $100 just to have the cash in my pocket, just for coffee and snacks on the road. There have been times I've forgotten and left with only $3-4 and had to stop at a Walmart to make a purchase and get cash (I refuse to deal with ATM fees, which my bank doesn't charge, but others do). Some of those times I've not even done that and ended up doing a full-blown week long road trip spending no cash at all.

 

[contender]

A bit over a year ago,, a disaster drove home to MANY people here that the only way they could purchase anything was with cash. Helene destroyed so much,, and the places that had supplies & were open would only take cash. I saw several people,, young & old,, trying to buy gas, food etc but could not because they only used plastic.
We keep enough cash readily handy to be very capable in an emergency. This includes while on the road or whatever.
But as I've said,, the change is never ignored nor forgotten. I've had a few times in my life when the pennies were just about all I had,, and by being frugal & such,, I was able to survive.

To many people,, cash seems cumbersome, or unnecessary. Until they NEED it & do not have it.

"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it!"

 

[mirglip]

To many people,, cash seems cumbersome, or unnecessary. Until they NEED it & do not have it.

To many people, liberty seems cumbersome. A cashless society is exactly what the banking elite wants because then they will have us on a digital leash. They would have control over their critics. Also, they would get 2 or 3% of every transaction involving a credit card, as they already do, but that amount would be greater if cash were eliminated.

 

[Joe Reilly]

I don't carry change. If I get any they go in a jar in the bedroom. When it fills up I convert to dollars. Usually if I get change back from the fast food window I jus tell the cashier to keep the change. BTW what is a toll?

Toll=Tax

 

[Ale-8(1)]

The last ones are being struck today . . .

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/unlucky-penny-us-mint-in-philadelphia-to-press-21168390.php

US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled​

"PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and because the 1-cent coin that could once buy a snack or a piece of candy had become increasingly irrelevant.

The last pennies were struck at the mint in Philadelphia, where the country’s smallest denomination coins have been produced since 1793, a year after Congress passed the Coinage Act. Officials said the final few pennies would be auctioned off."

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

I am a private sort, as I grew up when privacy was still valued and people were smarter. Cash transactions whenever possible. As for the end of the penny: This actually makes cents...er...sense... because of the cost of production vs value. However, this will- eventually- cost us a lot because all prices will be rounded up, as well as sales tax. May take awhile though. Just because the won't be MAKING pennies doesn't mean they will immediately go out of circulation. EVERYONE has "penny reserves" in their house somewhere that can be used even after the millions and millions of pennies being circulated currently start to dwindle. Probably more millions in those jars than circulating. It will be several years before it's even noticed.