That’s nothing to sneeze at, so dig through your couch and purse and car to see what you can find!)Īlmost 90% of the U.S. (And Coinstar says the average person has $56 of spare change lying around. If you’ve got some coin piles around your house and you could use a little extra Christmas shopping money, definitely dump them into the Coinstar machine. It’s lovely to have gotten rid of all of those coins (yay for more cabinet space!) and to have exchanged them for Amazon and Starbucks money is pretty darn fantastic. □Īnd you guys! We had over 1,650 pennies sitting in our house. We had so many pennies, the machine told us to take a break from pouring them in so it could catch up. We opted for an Amazon gift card this time. Just like magic, a Starbucks gift card appeared. The girls rather enjoy pushing all the coins in. There are a lot of good ones (three pages full, actually.)Įventually, I opted for a Starbucks card and we put in the coins that Coinstar had sent me. I hemmed and hawed over the gift card options. But! If you cash your coins in for a gift card or you give your money to charity, there’s no fee at all. If you choose to get cash for your coins, you’ll pay a 10% fee. Here are all the options you can choose from when you bring your coins in. Then we headed off to a grocery store to find a Coinstar machine. I didn’t really want to get rid of the quarters and such (they’re useful for paying out allowance!), but I knew the penny-to-silver-coin ration in my containers was really high, and so I decided to take all the pennies to Coinstar.Īnd we ended up with an impressive pile of pennies. They sent me a roll of each coin denomination, but I also had a ginormous pile of change sitting in my kitchen cabinet. Initially when Coinstar contacted me, I was a little hesitant, but once they told me there’s a fee-free way to get coins counted, I was all in. And you also already know that until this week, I’d never tried a Coinstar machine.(I opt either for manual rolling or just collecting large piles of coins because I am too frugal to pay a fee for coin counting!) If you follow me on Facebook, you know that Coinstar recently sent me a blogger package.
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