**Note: This is a super old post I found saved and never published. Still thought it was interesting.
Coinstar, Jewel, Roscoe Village
I have a glass Oberwies milk jar that I’ve used for years to collect spare change. When we were moving from Roscoe Village to Logan Square I cashed it in and it had $90.42 inside. There were almost no quarters because we had to pay for our laundry at our apartment in Roscoe Village.
Out of curiosity I looked up another time I cashed it out. In 2005 I wrote that the bottom half of the change didn’t have quarters in it because I had to pay for laundry when I lived in New York. Still, with quarters on the top only, I cashed in the change for $165.48. Quite a difference. Of course now we have in-unit, free laundry so the quarters are going back into the jar.
So the time has come. For a year or more I’ve been saying I should get a new computer. Then for the past 6 months I’ve said I’d buy a new computer when this change jar is full and I could cash it in and use it towards a new computer. Then for the past 3 weeks, with the jar full, I’ve procrastinated about what kind of computer I wanted. Finally, this weekend, I ordered a new