Paying cash - what to do with change?

Before I started charging everything to a double cash back card, I would put my coins in a Ziploc and cash in at the grocery store kiosk around my birthday each year and buy a nice dinner I normally wouldn't spend money on.

I keep quarters in my car’s ashtray. Every couple months, I roll them. One day I’ll see if my bank will take them, but I’ve got over twenty rolls sitting here.

Quarters I keep and use for doing laundry (I'd be happy to buy yours, R2!), everything else goes back in my pocket. It gets spent eventually; having exact change for a purchase is a (very) minor thrill. And stores apparently like getting change because so many people charge everything now the stores aren't getting as many coins as they used to.

Stick it up your butt. It feels amazing!

It always comes in handy and is welcome at the farmers market.

Heat them up in the sun, and throw them at your rent boys.

Carry it in your front pocket like a real man, FFS.

Then when you buy something that's, let's say, $7.27, you can give the clerk the exact change.

This is not rocket science, OP. Well, maybe for your generation it is.

R4 Your the person my mom always warned me about. As a small child I found a coin on the ground and put it in mouth. Without missing a beat my mother said, “that has probably been up someone’s butt.” I spit it out and never put random found objects in my mouth again.

… You’re.

I save up my spare change and put it in a sock, to keep Portia in line.

I roll up the coins and take them to the bank.

OMG, R10! I had a friend who put change into a tube sock inside a rag wool, bigger sock. He used that as a weapon a couple times I know of. Getting slammed by that must hurt!

Put the change in a homeless person’s cup. Or put the change in the tip jar on the counter.