Absquatulate

Change, s

Matt Haughey describes a new practice at Petco in a post about donating spare change to the Humane Society. I too think this is a great cause and a worthy endeavor but let's not play down how much that change might add up to over the course of a year.

In preparation for our move the Hubby and I collected all our spare change from over the years and went to one of those automated change counter thingies to see what we had. My guess was about $30, Piggy guessed $20. It covered the bottom of a boot shoebox to a depth of maybe three coins.

When it was all said and done, here's what we had in random spare change from over the last year. Keep in mind that I use change and will rifle through change stashes to find quarters for my caffeine and scone habit.

The Totals:
367 Quarters
664 Dimes
411 Nickles
1372 Pennies

SubTotal: $192.42
Fee: $17.13*
Net. $175.29

$192! That's quite a bit of change. Continually donated to places like the Humane Society that change can do alot of good. (there's a pun in here somewhere, but I'm too tired to think of it.)

*I think the 8% fee is way too high for something like this but there was enough change and not enough time to warrant using an automatic change counter.

Par-tay

"Lord knows, I don't know how or why the NYS needs to tag a keg of beer, it is not as though we are going to release this thing into the wild after we are done with it..."

— Piglet

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Star Bucks

Adam, your story reminds me of a similar tale involving a sweaty sandy red-headed boy fresh off the volleyball court agreeing to meet me at the local coffeeshop so that I could tell him that while I appreciated his late night confession I could not reciprocate at that time, seeings how I had a boyfriend and all.

Two days later, I was miraculously free of any relationships, although I told him it didn't mean anything.

A few days after that I took his face in my hands and kissed him.

Three years later, we were married.

I can't say we share the same fate Adam. Simply that our beginnings seem to have much in common.

Things I have been doing aside from posting here

• Camping
• Sailing
• Eating Macaroni and Cheese
• Buying jewelry
• Bridal Showering
• Cleaning
• Freaking Out
• Then making huge life altering decisions
• Fighting
• Loving
• Volleyballing
• Drinking
• Writing