As we've been purging our belongings, we've found various "stashes" of spare change: a small bowl here, a coffee cup there. Yesterday, we compiled a bunch of these stashes and took the loot to our local Coinstar machine.
Now, if you want cash for your cash, Coinstar will charge you about 9% for the privilege of counting your coins. But, if you're willing to take your payout in the form of a gift certificate, the cost of counting is free. When we pulled up to the machine, we quickly assessed that we could get full value of our coins in the form of an itunes gift card. That sounded great to us!
We began to dump the coins into the machine, thinking we had $20 or $30 dollars worth. Ching, ching, ching, and a couple minutes later the total came to $51.27 plus a handful of Australian coins that didn't make the cut.
We both have itunes accounts, and mine is currently empty. Boris graciously gave the code for the gift card to me. So, my itunes account is considerably richer. That's a lot of music and apps!
Of course, turnabout is fair play. I think I saw Boris eyeing a couple buckets of coins in the garage.
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