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Originally Posted by Snave
I'm kind of a numbers nerd like that.
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I was totally a money nerd as a kid. It's funny to think about it now, seeing how I turned out as a personal finance junkie. You could have easily predicted it when I was 8 or 10 or so. I used to keep a written breakdown of my money - how much in coins by denomination and such. I used to save and roll pennies. I had a cabinet in my room that had a few dozen rolls of pennies. I also loved half dollars. We found a plastic tube somewhere that was just the right size to hold them and I filled that tube with nearly $400 in half dollars. Even my Tootsie Roll bank had a little piece of paper taped to it with the date and the amount that was in there. One of my favorite toys was a bank that automatically sorted coins and had buttons that let you take out whichever coins you wanted. Just needed a dime, you could just push the button under the dimes.
No big surprise that I'm still a money guy.