After three f*cking months of being #1 on my queue.....Vicky Cristina Barcelona is finally shipping. THREE F*KCING MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!
Keep you're shirt on - you haven't missed much, really. P and I watched it the last time I was up there and were both pretty unimpressed. Eye candy and little more.
I use them all the time. I collect donation money then bring it to coinstar. I pony up the fee so the recipient doesn't get shorted. I also used to save my change all year then bring it to coinstar to put toward our camping trip. It used to be enough to pay for 3 or 4 nights. Nowadays I don't collect change because I usually scrape it together to try and buy some food. Those machines are embarrassing anyway. They are so noisy and they just seem to shout - "Hey, everybody - look, here's a poor person who can't buy food with real money!"
I use them sometimes, too. Usually when I've got enough change to fill up my piggy bank - I generally only carry a couple of quarters, so anything smaller goes in the piggy bank.
There are a number of people who don't have bank accounts.
Yeah I've had even banks here get huffy about breaking a 20 like it's some great burden. When it's a no-skin-off-their-nose situation like putting a piggy bank's worth of change thru their sorter (takes about 20 seconds), I make it plain to them that I will not hesitate to occupy somebody's (preferably several peoples') time so that NOT doing the simple service costs them far more than just shutting up and doing it. I don't back down until someone gets on the phone and uses the word "incident" or maybe "situation."
Yeah, last time I took them to the bank I had dozens of wraps containing pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. I was apparently her worst nightmare. I imagine they have a better process in place these days.
and wrapping the coins sucks!
Our bank wants the coins wrapped with your account number written on the wrapper. then they unwrap them to put them in the machine to count. WTF?
All the banks here have a counting machine that they use to count it out for you... and they even smile when you ask them to do it.
My bank has a couple of times a week when you can bring in loose change for counting. They will count it while you wait, or put it in line and just deposit it to your account. I have found that if you don't wait on it, you will not get the golf tees, paper clips, poker chips and cookie fortunes back from your pile of change.
See this is what I don't get. I guess banks make it really painful for people to turn in lots of coins? And you have to plan ahead.
There are a number of people who don't have bank accounts. And there are a lot of people who don't plan ahead. Those are the people I see using the coinstar machines a lot. I don't know the details, but I would expect that they are still getting a fee from the other side when a gift card is issued.
Banks want the coins wrapped. Now, some of the banks here have a counting machine that you can use for free.
Yeah, last time I took them to the bank I had dozens of wraps containing pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. I was apparently her worst nightmare. I imagine they have a better process in place these days.
The last time I took a lot of coins to the bank, the teller looked at me like she wanted to kill me. That was quite a few years ago though. They might have a better way of counting them now.
Banks want the coins wrapped. Now, some of the banks here have a counting machine that you can use for free.
Just to kickstart the threadjack? WTF is coinstar? Who puts enough money in them to make it pay? I can see if I had $3 worth of change and needed $2.75 in quarters for the car wash or something, but those machines must cost thousands of dollars. I have NEVER seen anyone using one. Who would put $100 worth of coins in one just to get $92 in bills out?
I use them all the time. I collect donation money then bring it to coinstar. I pony up the fee so the recipient doesn't get shorted. I also used to save my change all year then bring it to coinstar to put toward our camping trip. It used to be enough to pay for 3 or 4 nights. Nowadays I don't collect change because I usually scrape it together to try and buy some food. Those machines are embarrassing anyway. They are so noisy and they just seem to shout - "Hey, everybody - look, here's a poor person who can't buy food with real money!"
See this is what I don't get. I guess banks make it really painful for people to turn in lots of coins? And you have to plan ahead.
The last time I took a lot of coins to the bank, the teller looked at me like she wanted to kill me. That was quite a few years ago though. They might have a better way of counting them now.
Just to kickstart the threadjack? WTF is coinstar? Who puts enough money in them to make it pay? I can see if I had $3 worth of change and needed $2.75 in quarters for the car wash or something, but those machines must cost thousands of dollars. I have NEVER seen anyone using one. Who would put $100 worth of coins in one just to get $92 in bills out?
I have used them a few times over the years. I once took the change that had been building up in a drawer to cash it in, and ended up with almost $300 that I used as my spending money on vacation. They charged 9%, but it was worth it with the other option being taking it all to the bank. Something kind of satisfying about sliding all those coins in and watching the count grow.
Oh, and the next time I opened the drawer where the coins had been, I almost flung it across the room becuase it was so much lighter than it used to be.
I imagine they have a better process in place these days.
