Save Your Change

Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Filed under Alternatives, Money Saving, Personal Finance

Well a simple piece of advice to help you manage your finances. I'm in the euro zone so I am not very experienced with the American currency. I know you use dollars over there, that's about the height of my knowledge, something about nickles and dimes and quarters. That's just confusing...! Here we keep things simple. Euro and cent. 100 cent being 1 euro. Nice and easy unlike your semi dime quarter-back crap you have going on in the US! Only joking....!

But I'm actually serious. But anyway, I'm sure this tip is translatable to American money, but I'll be concentrating on euro.

I don't know about you but at the end of a day working and purchasing, I'm left with a handful of change, and sometimes you want to just get rid of it all. Or sometimes you might want to leave the shop without getting your 10cent change. Well save all the coins you can, pick 'em up off the street! And get yourself a nice big bowl from your kitchen. And dump the coins in there. And keep doing that anytime you find you've got a bunch of coins in your pocket or purse.

And the day when that bowl is overflowing, is a good day my friend. Head down to your local bank and they should be able to supply you free of charge with little plastic bags. You fill the bags with the right amount of coins, and bring them back to the bank and you'll get a nice bundle of notes!

Normally they accept 1euro in 1 cents, 2 euro in 2 cents, 5euro in 5 cents, 10 euro in 10ccents, 10euro in 20cents, 50 euro in 50 cents, 1euro, or 2 euro. I think...

So there you are, that this lesson done, hoard your coins! I realize its not a way to earn money or technically save money, its really just converting money, but you know what, to me it feels like saving money. Those itsy bitsy coins are useless to me, and wouldn't even bother counting them as viable money. But just keep them and after 2 or 3 months you get some decent notes from the bank... well it just seems like bonus money to me :-)

So here we are at the end of the article, leave a comment, tell a story, interconnect with me and with all, but most importantly, save your virginity for your marriage night. Thanks for reading!


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