We keep a couple of jars around to just throw our change into as we pass by. I guess it has been over a year, maybe two, since we dumped them. I decided to take them down to the grocery store to use the coin exchange machine. I honestly thought we might have $40 or so. $240 later it was like, WOW. That doesn't count the $20+ in quarters we took out of the pile to put in our camping tray, which probably holds another $60 now. I didn't think about the 11% cost the machine was charging, because I honestly did not think we had that much in change.
I talked Regina into letting me buy 5 MegaMoney tickets for the $540 million drawing. I don't play unless the jackpot is over $400 million and buying 5 tickets is a big splurge for us.
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