…is apparently the CoinStar machine at Star Market. Shortly after we moved into our apartment we bought a big tin of Twinnings Earl Grey tea. It didn’t last long, and the tin was repurposed as a repository for loose change. A while later, we bought *another* tin of Twinnings Earl Grey Tea, which was also put to work as a coin holder. Tonight, we took both these tins to the Star Market CoinStar machine to see what years of idle savings had wrought. I say it was the cool place to be not *just* because we were there, but because there were two other people there (one using the machine when we arrived, and one whom we let go in-between our two tins.)
What turned out to be the lesser of the two jars
Because our laundry machines at the apartment take quarters, I had dumped the two tins out and removed the quarters several times. I only got a picture of the second tin, which was $10 lighter than the first one:
Scoresheet for the second tin
The machine rejected all the non-American and non-coin items for us. Here’s one tin worth of UnAmerican coins and sundry:
Remnants. Don't they look UnAmerican?
The Results:
Dollars: 6
Half-Dollars: 1
Quarters: 3
Dimes: 658+756
Nickels: 623+463
Pennies: 2019+2731
Grand Total: $250.45
That’s some serious change. No wonder it was so heavy.
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