hammerrob wrote: What was more fun than sorting the pennies was seeing what was on the TD Bank magnet when I dumped. Lots of foreign coins, especially Canadian.
So I changed the game up
Rob
mtalbot_ca wrote:PM me if you're thinking of going to Québec.
Cheers,
mrlaufer wrote:Question for you Rob - Are you and your son on a $25/week budget? Sounds like you are and I'm kind of the same way. What I've been thinking of doing is after I sort through my $25 ox of pennies, when I dump I'm going to try and roll the extra into nickel rolls to sort until I start getting full boxes with my pennies every week. then the extras will roll into dimes and so on. Might help you accumulate more of what you are looking for quicker. I know I haven't started this yet, but next friday is my go time. Anyone else see a problem with this?
hammerrob wrote:mrlaufer wrote:Question for you Rob - Are you and your son on a $25/week budget? Sounds like you are and I'm kind of the same way. What I've been thinking of doing is after I sort through my $25 ox of pennies, when I dump I'm going to try and roll the extra into nickel rolls to sort until I start getting full boxes with my pennies every week. then the extras will roll into dimes and so on. Might help you accumulate more of what you are looking for quicker. I know I haven't started this yet, but next friday is my go time. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Well, I wouldn't really call it a budget, but we're sorting $15 per week (2 rolls each of pennies, nickels and dimes). This takes all of about 5 minutes, which is just about my son's tolerance / attention span! Over the past few years I've sorted enough copper that I'm not really in a hurry to accumulate more. We're trying to fill a Jefferson Nickel and Roosevelt dime collection along the way, but the key to what we're doing is to grab the foreign coins that stick to the magnet on the TD Bank sorters each week. We're collecting a lot of foreign coins from all over the world, and a lot of Canadian coins (which we're looking to fund a fancy meal in Canada with in 2015).
I'm not sure I 'get' the $25 strategy you have in mind, but if you're sorting I think most people here would agree that you can't be going wrong.
Rob
henrysmedford wrote:
Do you have Canadian folders also as you are finding Canadian?
hammerrob wrote:henrysmedford wrote:
Do you have Canadian folders also as you are finding Canadian?
Interesting thought. No, we don't have any Canadian folders. We should think about doing the pennies and quarters. We find a decent amount of pre-steel Canadian pennies just sorting. We never find old quarters, but Canada has done some interesting modern quarters (I've noticed quarters for the provinces, the 2010 winter olympics, and breast cancer awareness).
scyther wrote:It will take about 20 years to fill out a Dansco album Jeffersons searching 4 rolls a week... Roosevelts will probably be harder... but good luck.
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