by Tricia
During our last visit with my family, my mom decided to give my son some change and a while ago my son “cashed” it in to the bank of mom and dad. They were sitting around the house so yesterday I decided it was time to roll them up and cash them in at the bank.
Well, you learn something new every day. My husband gave the penny rolls to the bank teller and she told him not to roll the change. They plop them in their coin counter machine and it does all of the work. My husband asked the question that was on my mind when he told me about this…”Does it cost anything?”
It turns out that it doesn’t cost anything at my bank. I’ve heard that some banks do charge for cashing in change, so we are fortunate. Especially because we do not have any Coinstar machines near us.
So before you spend the time counting (and double counting if you are like me!) and rolling your change, give your bank a quick call to see if you need to do that. I could have saved some time if I had known about my bank’s change cashing policy.
How much did we cash in? $9.00 worth of change ($7.00 in pennies). Now we’ll have some cash on hand for my son’s allowance 🙂
