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I hate carrying spare change. This fact will be important in a moment.
In addition to having a new baby in the house, I’m sort of changing job positions. I’m cleaning out my desk and moving from one building in my company to another building in my company. I’ll have slightly different duties, but otherwise everything else is pretty much staying the same.
I’ve been at this same job for four and a half years. During those four and a half years I’ve bought a lot of lunches and plugged a lot of dollar bills into the vending machines. As a result of this, I’ve received back quite a lot of spare change which, as I said, I hate carrying around. So I used to just throw into my desk drawer and forget about it. This continued for about a year before I noticed that each time I opened my desk drawer it sounded very much like the cash register ka-ching of Pink Floyd’s Money.
It was a pleasant reminder of exactly why I was showing up for work each day, but it started to make me feel as though I was working in a toll booth.
At the time I was too lazy to take the spare change home and roll it, so I found an empty Altoids box in the back of my drawer (I have a hard time throwing away anything made of metal, go figure) and tossed some of the extra coins into that. Then I found another one and did it again. Pretty soon I was eating Altoids and generating spare change at about the same pace, so whenever I finished off a box of Altoids (once every other month or so) I’d fill it with change from my drawer and stack it on my shelf.
It is silly office games like this that keep you sane some days.
Now, four and a half years later, I am cleaning out my desk for my move and I have amassed 21 Altoid Boxes filled with spare change. Each box weighs over a pound and each box has about, well… I have no idea how much money in it. Sadly, these boxes are about the only concrete accomplishment I can point to for the entire time I’ve worked at this company.
Instead of moving the 21 Altoid Boxes of spare change, I have elected to dump all the change and start from scratch in my new position.
So that’s what I’ve done. I’ve dumped them right into a coin counting machine at my local bank and come up with the answer to an age-old question:
How much money can be collected in 21 Altoid Boxes filled with spare change?
Answer: $238.90
Now you know.
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2 Responses to “21 Altoid Boxes of Spare Change”
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thordora says:
that is a LOT of diapers.
October 13th, 2006 at 4:50 pm -
OneDollarDream says:
That’s awesome! I like your site’s sub title and peppermint Altoids myself. Next time your rolling in the loot again stop by http://100centdream.com/.
Cheers,
OneDollarDream