The results are in

Hey, does anyone remember this post I wrote about my money box? Me either. But I just cracked it open and spent an hour counting the money inside. How much do I have? Well first, here’s a photo:

Excuse the glare, I’m shitty at photography. The total of the bagged coins comes to a nice $236. Sweet. I point out bagged, because on top of that there was an addition $48.15 in loose coins, which I’ve thrown into a new money tin that’s approximately 50% bigger than the last one. Since I got roughly $285 in just six months, the goal for this year is to get $500 by this time next year.

I’m pretty happy with myself.

It’s time for change.

I hate having all that silver, I’m scared of my friends wallet; it’s 90% loose change, and is so heavy that if I dropped it on a kid, it’d recreate the scene from Final Destination 2 with the glass and the pigeons.
I always have change from buying a drink or similar, and it annoys me. Sometimes I pump it into the pokies after work, but it occurs to me that it’d probably be better if I stopped wasting it on a flashing screen.

I’ve gotten a large money tin, and every time I get home, I’m going to drop any coins of any sort I have on me. The tin already weighs a fair bit from all the coins in it, and on a rough guess there must be at least 30 dollars in there. I know for sure there’s a fair bit of gold in there, so it might even be more.
Once it’s completely full, I’ll crack it open, count it, and add it to the savings. I’m hoping when it’s full, to get maybe $150-$200 out of it. Fingers crossed.