$249.45

Well since 2008 is over and done with I decided to finally do something about all those coins in my Coin Counting Jar. At the end of December that jar said that I had $265.31 which isn’t that bad for two years of saving coins. Well I decide to send my brother to the Coinstar machine last Saturday and just get it over with. To make things interesting I decided to have a contest, try to guess how much money is there in the jar before Coinstar gets their cut and whoever comes closest gets $20 big ones. My brother took the jar and the final amount was $276 dollars, I don’t remember how many cents, and the winner was my nephew with his $280 dollar guess. I thought that the final amount would be close to $300 dollars because the jar didn’t count some coins but obviously it wasn’t. When my brother returned I handed over the prize to the lucky winner, who didn’t want to participate in the contest at first, we got some Taco Bell and the $200 left are going straight to my bank. I took pictures of the jar and the receipt and when my blog editor starts to work I will update this post.