Cashing in those coins

With all of this free time on my hands I’m finally getting to all of those random small tasks that I hated doing on my precious weekends.

Today I finally replaced the plastic underbody protector on my car (ripped off earlier this year while in the snow) which of course required not only pulling the car out of my parking space, crawling underneath and figuring out which socket would be needed – but of course, a trip to the store to pick up a few bolts… and of course the first TWO stores I tried didn’t have them (and how is it that I keep going back to Kragen?).  It’s crap like this that I just don’t want to spend my time doing when I’ve got a full time job going.

Well, after helping Meghan move, our consolidated coin piles ended up on my list of things to get rid of.  I poked around a little online and lo and behold – Coinstar (at select locations) will let you trade in your coins without the normal 8% (or greater) skim off the top.  The catch?  You need to trade it in for a gift certificate rather than cold hard cash.  But, the list of vendors is pretty reasonable and after 15 minutes at the machine I found myself with a $63 redemption code for Amazon.com.  Not too bad..

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