do you save your change?

[dou44]

i am about ready to rob my coke machine .i need to buy some ammo unless i find another rifle.

[Junk Yard Dog]

TulaTom, pennies ain't been copper since 1982, they make them out of zink now.

[bunkysdad]

I found some 50 year old pennies in my change from Mcdonalds just the other day that look uncirculated!

[zeebill]

Pennies and dimes get saved but quarters go in the car wash to keep the truck salt free and clean. I need to take the dimes in fro turn in here as it is getting tight for cash around here right now. Sold off some extras from the collection this month to keep me solvent. Now the truck needs attention so I will be robbing Peter to pay Paul for awhile I guess. The banks are making you fill out a form now if you move X amount of money into or out of an account. They tell you it is to prevent money laundering and I told them I use the washer for that and they didn't laugh one little bit? No sense of humor in banks these days! If it is cold and I go in there with my hoodie up they all start ducking behind the counter. What ails these people? They even kind of looked twice this summer when I kept the helmet on when I came in there on the trike. Dang if they are that jumpy in there they ought to work somewhere else I would say. Bill

[millman]

Just dont forget and pack a Mosin in there. You'll end up in government housing for the next 10-15 years.

[AoxoMoxoA]

I have been doing that for years. It is my ammo fund... but anything in my pants pockets go into the detergent jug... I recently made a big mistake when I suggested my wife go dig her out some quarters for something. She has now found my gold mine and it is no longer safe...

Time to put your detergent jug in your gun safe...

[TulaTom]

TulaTom, pennies ain't been copper since 1982, they make them out of zink now.

Yep. I just pull the 1982 and before pennies. More and more people must be doing it, because the percentage of copper I've been getting lately has shrunk considerably. I know guys that are taking their nickels out as well.

I spent some of that fishing money today. Found a 1944 Izhevsk M44 for $74.15 out the door from a lgs. I couldn't pass that price up. I don't see many M44's around here and when I do they are usually priced around $225-$250. It's in the war time stock with the single ear ramped bayonet socket. Counterbored probably a good inch/inch and a half, with an OK looking bore. Force stamped matched, except for the magazine floor plate that was etched to match. The stock has one refurbishment repair on the side, but not that noticeable. So yeah, not a museum piece and unfortunately not a '43, but at that price I couldn't say no.

[WeldonHunter]

Ok here's the scoop. I saw a news report the other day about pennies. It started out about a guy who saves pennies in a big way. He has 5 gallon buckets of them all over his house. The price of copper has driven the value of true copper pennies to about 1.5 cents give or take. Then the news segment went to a place that's doing it on a larger scale. It's a warehouse somewhere that's extremely well guarded with armored trucks visiting it daily to bring pennies to be sorted by metal content and collectable value. The collectable pennies are saved for sale to collectors and the true copper pennies are being hoarded in anticipation of the penny being discontinued as currency so they can then melt them down and sell the copper for a profit. They can't do that now because it's illegal to destroy US currency.

[RudyN]

I save all my dimes, nickels and pennies in a jar and take them in for exchange once in a while. All of the real copper pennies go in a special jar and do not get spent. I even have a few steel pennies from WWII.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I find a few wheat back cents in my change every year, and of late I have been seeing a lot of bicentennial quarters 1776-1976 in real nice shape. I am guessing that someone is hitting hard times and liquidating a jar full of them someplace.

[KenManiac]

I found a real silver quarter in my pocket change the other day, haven't seen one of them turn up in a while.

I save nearly every $5 bill I get, they go to my savings/retirement/guns and ammo fund.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I mostly find silver dimes, and sometimes wartime silver nickles.

[1934hexreceiver]

I try to save mine. And I usually do. Until I need a lil extra $ to go out on the weekends. Haha

[desdem12]

I had a pile of change saved up and stashed in the hunting gear and would take it with me in case. Never had an in case so i turned it into a 43 Tikka M91 and a 43 Sako M39 this summer. Now i have to start all over again.

[Celt]

I do also, that's how i buy my chew!

[mogunner]

I don't get a lot of change as mostly I spend 'plastic' not real paper stuff, but what change I do get goes into a couple of the heavy aluminum bottles that some of the energy drinks come in, these are stashed in my gun safe. I made the mistake some time back of having a container under my nightstand that I tossed my change in but all the silver stuff seemed to have a habit of disappearing. Of course NO ONE had any idea who might have been making off with it, so to stop them damned elves from making off with it in the middle of the night I had to lock it up...

[BubbaDX]

I have been saving coins for years. My dad used to save all the wheat pennies and silver coins he got. I do the same. I sort my change when I take it out of my pocket. I have a metal bowl on my desk for the coins I want to keep. These eventually get sorted and added to my collection of old coins. Everything else gets tossed in a jar that I occasionally cash in. When I was in college I worked at a gas station. I accumulated quite a bit of good coins while working there. One evening I opened a roll of quarters and the entire roll was silver. It had came from the bank that morning. The two of us working that evening bought all the rolled coins and split them. We scored 2 rolls of silver quarters and a roll of wheat pennies each.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Nice haul of silver

[Longcolt44]

All my change went away with all the hope