January 26, 2010

Change

Filed under: General — Rick @ 9:50 pm

Dylan and Gavin have been wanting a PS3 for months and months. Mom and Dad say: “NO, 5 game systems are enough”. We told them that they could buy it with their own money. They have been saving birthday money, Christmas money, allowance, etc and still fell well short of the amount they needed. Saturday Gavin asked what he could do to earn $. I told him to collect our various stashes of coins in drawers, jars and cars and take it to a coin counting machine. He separated out the euros, pesos, loonies, toonies, Turkish lira and Austrian schillings and put the US coins in a emesis basin sized container. I figured it might be $40 worth of coinage. Turns out it was $123.33 worth of pennies, nickels and quarters!! On the Coinstar counter if you get an Amazon gift card they don’t charge a fee. PS3 is on the way! And there was much rejoicing. They play Blu-rays, right?

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