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KitFox

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39. A primary school teacher would love to have them.

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 03:18 AM

Mar 20

I would give each of my students a large piece of aluminum foil and ask them to make a boat that would hold pennies and float. They added pennies one at a time to see how many it would hold before capsizing. They could keep all the pennies it held. The kids that made flat barge type boats always had the most pennies.

I save up all my coins and give them out to my grandkids who like using them to play store with the shops they build with their legos.

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What do you do with coins? [View all] CTyankee Mar 18 OP

I hoard quarters for the laundromat and tire pressure no_hypocrisy Mar 18 #1

too bad you don't live next door to me! CTyankee Mar 18 #5

QT has free air. Mosby Mar 18 #12

Make one wish a day and throw a penny in the garbage. Frasier Balzov Mar 18 #2

Our bank has a coin counting machine. Quakerfriend Mar 18 #3

You can always burden me with the pennies. Drop them off at an elementary school, they LoisB Mar 18 #4

I thought of that but it's such a tiresome job for a teacher. CTyankee Mar 18 #7

That's a good idea. I have never used a machine at the supermarket but have at my credit LoisB Mar 18 #18

We have four young grand nephews BOSSHOG Mar 18 #6

I keep my coins in the car and when I'm at a corner with cachukis Mar 18 #8

Need quarters for shopping cart at ALDI. bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #9

I've had them forever, maybe over 20 years since we've lived in our house. It is a huge jar, now about full. CTyankee Mar 18 #13

Like 5 pounds of whey protein full? That would be heavy bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #15

Oh, for goodness sakes "using cash". How gauche of us who do.... electric_blue68 Mar 19 #25

My bank gave me a prepaid debit card. multigraincracker Mar 19 #29

You have to pay for a cart? Deuxcents Mar 18 #16

u get ur quarter back but u need it to undock it from its pen. /nt bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #17

O..actually a great idea to make sure they get their carts back. I see them far away from the store sometimes Deuxcents Mar 18 #19

You would think, but I had an ALDI checker tell me they can't keep the carts in the store bucolic_frolic Mar 18 #20

Welp..so much for that! Deuxcents Mar 18 #22

Actually is a good system NJCher Mar 19 #28

What do I do with coins? Diamond_Dog Mar 18 #10

When my cigar box gets close to full of coins Shambala Mar 18 #11

Our credit union has a free coin counting machine that prints a receipt that you take to a teller who Enter stage left Mar 18 #14

Credit Unions BOSSHOG Mar 18 #21

I don't do online banking. I do inline banking. multigraincracker Mar 19 #30

I agree, Credit Unions are great LogDog75 Mar 19 #35

Hello My Friend BOSSHOG Mar 19 #38

change Maninacan Mar 18 #23

I'll sort through them LogDog75 Mar 19 #36

I have 3 piggy banks. Archae Mar 18 #24

I have a giant vase full of pennies, nickels, and dimes. Demobrat Mar 19 #26

Nowadays I (infrequently) use the Coinstar kiosk/machine in the local supermarket RockRaven Mar 19 #27

I like to leave them in the donation banks on the counter. multigraincracker Mar 19 #31

Be careful using a glass container Marthe48 Mar 19 #32

I'll give you face value for those coins in the jar onethatcares Mar 19 #33

The quarters I segregate and use for the car wash in my neighborhood, vending machines, etc. Xavier Breath Mar 19 #34

Every couple of years I put them in rolls and take them to the bank Auggie Mar 19 #37

A primary school teacher would love to have them. KitFox Mar 20 #39

My Dad always saved his pocket change Rhiannon12866 Mar 20 #40

omg hubby is such a coin freak..he picks them up off the ground samnsara Mar 20 #41

Right now I am trying to fill out 3 new women Quarter Emile Mar 20 #42