Fourteen cigar boxes full of the loose change I’d taken out of my pockets every night as I undressed for bed for the past fifteen years, came to just under three-thousand dollars the other day. You should have seen the looks I got from the folks waiting for a teller in my bank as I wheeled all those cigar boxes in.<\/p>\n
My bank, let it be said, was very cool about it. I asked ahead of time, and they didn’t demand I wrap up all those coins, and they didn’t charge me for counting them. The branch customer service manager cheerfully took the cart I’d loaded with all those cigar boxes around behind the teller windows to the coin counting machine and then gave me a deposit slip afterward with the yield amount on it. She was all smiles, and so was the young teller who ran it all through the machine. I guess I made their day.\n<\/p>\n
Of course the drawback to all of this is that if I’d bought savings bonds with that money it would have been earning interest all this time. I have a little wooden box on my dresser that resembles an old pirate treasure chest and that’s where I toss my loose change at the end of my day. Whenever it filled up I’d transfer some of it to a cigar box and put it away. I think from now on I’ll go buy a savings bond with it instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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