So i've been spring cleaning and in the process, purging my condo of all things high school. I don't know why it took me so long to get rid of a bunch of crap that for some reason i felt that i either needed to save, or thought it was cool or were memories i didn't want to let go of. The only thing i did save though, was some Royal News stuff that is just too good to ever let go of because every now and then, i'll pull out a copy of the Chromosome Chronicle (the fake school paper) and just laugh for hours while reading it. I also kept my MLK Jr. paper aptly titled, "He Had a Dream," for which I received a "D."
So as I was getting rid of 99% of my high school crap, some of my college coursework (it was sad throwing away my EALL stuff....) and just random other stuff that i have amassed throughout the years, I came upon my shoebox of change. I've been keeping my spare change and rolling it up periodically for maybe about 10 years now. And when i roll it up, i just put it in the shoebox. Well, i finally got to the point where I told myself that i should probably take it to the bank. All in all, i had 47 penny rolls, 17 nickel rolls, 22 dime rolls and 36 quarter rolls, which sums up to $527.50. Isn't that crazy!
When i got to the bank, i saw a lot of nervous eyes from the tellers as they gazed upon the shoebox. I know what they were thinking. I remember when I went to the bank to get my mortgage, and in the cubicle next to me, there was a man and lady who were opening up their first bank account and they brought in boxes and boxes and bags and shoeboxes and more bags of straight up cash. It was so crazy. Now, I don't know if it's smart or dumb to trust the bank with all your money like almost everyone else does, but on the flip side, it also seems crazy to just store mad amounts of cash around your house.
So anyway, I felt bad for the teller, because i thought she was going to have to count all the coins and make sure it was all there, but in the end, she did no such thing. She counted the rolls up and traded me dollar bills for them and i left. What happens if the coin rolls were full of lead or something else. It's not like the rolls are translucent or anything, there could have been anything in there. Or what happens if a few of the rolls were a coin or two short? Do they not care? She didn't ask me my account number, or my name or anything. How would they get compensated? I was kinda baffled by it. I almost asked her about the procedure for something like this, but instead i just took the money and left. oh well. not my problem if you can't do your job.
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You're rich! I wrap mine as I go and put it in my savings account, that way I can earn a nominal amount of interest on it.
i know, that's what prompted me to do it, it was like, "i have this money, but i'm not doing anything with it." i was going to just put it into my savings account, but then she started pulling out bills and handing them to me, and i have problems saying no, so i just took them. so really, nothing has changed. oh well. i ran out of the spare cash i keep at home, so i guess it all worked out in the end sort of....
was this a bank you belong to? and she really didn't ask for your bank card / ID or anything -- just handed you cash? sounds like she's good at her job!
when taking change to National City, they used to make me write my account number on all the rolls. but they have since stopped requiring that.
also, i've also wondered what happens if your a coin short -- or over. the thing i use to wrap my coins doesn't seem all too precise, so i'm sure i've been off before.
by the way, how much does $527.50 in change weigh?
finally, i LOVE the Chromosome Chronicle. i don't know why, but i think it's one of if not the funniest things i have ever read. i remember crying in class when i first read it, because i had to fight so hard to suppress my laughter. we should email Zachariah Durr to see if he's got all the old issues: http://www.youtube.com/user/zartdart
http://zartdart.com/splash.html
it was pretty heavy. The shoebox was about to buckle under the weight of it all.
I think I just decided on a money-making hustle to try.
How long do you figure you spent wrapping all those coins? Like what if you hadn't wrapped it periodically? Would you have had to take a day off from work to do this?
to roll all of that change....hmmmmm....it takes time to sort all the coins into their respective piles, then to group each type of coin into the appropriate quantity for each roll, and then you have to roll them all......it might take a good day.
unless you have something like this coin sorter
as i do (a gift from my dead grandma). then it takes you little time.
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