Anyone do a change jar?

I have a change jar that I save my money in for Christmas. I haven't cashed it in yet, maybe next week. Anyone else do this? How much do you have?

[seaar2000]

I have a change jar. At the end of the month I take all my change except for the pennies and put them on my car payment. The pennies I started this month to see how many pennies I can save in one year. Just out of curiousity.

[PrincessPerky]

We have a jar in our room. supposedly we are going to fill it then split it for the kids savings . Pennies are also seperate, not sure why.

[vendigirl]

I have one that I dump my change into when my purse gets too heavy. I average about $50 every couple of months.

[globetrotter]

I have a change jar that is kept for trip spending money. I usually have a couple of hundred dollars every few months. I dump all my change in it when I come home each night.

[miclason]

I save all my pennies for Alejandra, she feeds them into her "chicken"..once it is "really fat" we are going to open it and use it to open a children's savings account with them...

[terry1156]

I've had a change jar for years. it isn't set up for anything in particular. I cash it in every few months and it goes into our savings.

[mom-from-missouri]

I have 2. One I keep under $30 in--its for emergency money-such as if I get stuck at work and Grandma or the sitter needs to order pizza or the sitter needs $5 for gas to run my kids somewhere. The other change jar I dump out at the end of the month and it goes into savings to draw some interest. At the end of the year there is enough to pay the personal property taxes with some left over.

[2moretrees]

I have a change jar and a dollar jar where I put all my $1 bills. The bills go to paying off debt. The change is I take to the bank every month or two and place it into my saving account.

[Tree0164]

I throw change in a big can. We are using that money towards a big family vacation in a few years.

[kashi]

I have a cute change jar that serves as a doorstop in my house. I have no idea how much change is in there...maybe I'll look tonight!

[DivaJen]

Dh and I have one, and so does DD. When DD's jar gets full, I help her wrap up the change to take to deposit in her savings account. I use the change in our jar if she's short here and there in filling up a wrapper. DH and I used to use the money in our change jar for fun money. One anniversary we were able to go to a nice dinner with the money we'd tossed in there!

[akaivyleaf]

I have a penny jar. I find it therapeutic to roll coins every so often and I take them to my savings account. I plan to do a big jar full of them for a whole year... just curious how many pennys I can save in a year. Then in 2006, I'll do a penny jar and a nickel jar. I'm crazy don't ask me why I'll keep this progression going. I also pick up change off the street. Something about walking over money, bothers me. And I open my door at drive throughs and pick up the change that people have dropped and haven't bothered to retrieve. Hey I wash my hands thoroughly and frequently.

Sharon

[Lori63]

When I get enough of a coin to roll I do it and deposit it with my next deposit to savings or checking. I usually end up raiding my change to use at the bread store-depends on how many days til payday!

I have a pretty gold dish that I keep near my purse and my husband's wallet, in the hallway. We dump extraneous change in there when we come into the house.
Whenever it's full, I bring it upstairs to the master change box. It's huge!!
Whenever it's full, I wrap them up by hand and walk to the bank. It's some mental thing of mine: I don't want to spend money driving the car to the bank when the whole point of the trip is to save money. It's only about a 10 minute walk.

My main bank is about 30 miles away, so this account is what we call our dream account. We're not sure what it'll be for yet - maybe to pay off our mortgage, but probably to buy a large piece of land in the country on which we'll eventually build. We'll see.
So, our spare change funds only our imagination...

[terry1156]

When I was young (a long, long time ago) my father made a bank that was like a pinball machine. When you put the coin in the slot at the top. it bounced down a certain pattern depending on its size to be in the correct slot in the bottom. I've seen new models kind of like that, but nothing as fun as the one he made. I wish I still had it. I think that was something that really got me to enjoy saving. It was so much fun watching the coins.

[jhd815]

I use a Planters Cheese Balls container to drop my change in weekly. I travel a lot for my job and I used to use cash for the tolls. However, now I have an IPass automatic payment system so I've found that I collect my change faster now than when I had to use it for tolls.

I love when its full and I take it to the bank to turn it into cash. I never know how much it will be but I always make sure to spend it on something fun. I've already made changes in spending habits to bring down my credit debt, so I use this as a motivational tool to keep on saving, knowing that I have my change can to do something fun with every now and then.

It's almost full now and when I turn it in this time I'll be saving it to use on my vacation to San Diego in Feb. 2005

[crosses]

We've had a change jar as long as I can remember. My mother has a change can that sat on top of the refrigerator when I was a little girl I can still remember. She called it her "secret fund" that my father wasn't supposed to know about, but I'm sure he did. It is a wonderfully easy way to save.