ka-ching!

[prosodic]

So we took Lance's huge pickle jar full of change to the Coinstar machine at the grocery store. We selected a Lowe's e-certificate so they wouldn't take the surcharge.

Almost $275! New storm door!!

We walked out very very happy. You don't think of change as being terribly significant, until you save up quite a lot of it. And now we have enough money to replace something that desperately needs replacing, and we don't need to earmark any funds for it.

Woot!

After that errand, we went to the post office to mail out a package to Lance's mom. Then we stopped at Jiffy Lube to get an oil change for my car. They even vacuumed the interior and cleaned the exterior of the windows (pointless, since it's raining). That took all of half an hour...so much faster than Firestone. I don't think I'll ever go to Firestone again (the last time I went there for an oil change, it took TWO HOURS...I spent most of that time across the street at a McDonald's, sipping a latte and trying to read). Lance wants to switch to Jiffy Lube now too.

Then to the auto parts store so Lance could get a new air filter for his truck.

Reece was out of the crate all the while (less than 2 hours), but she has now lost her out of crate privileges. We came home to shredded paper all over the floor - nothing of huge significance except for a $3 Petsmart coupon. And she damaged the hat that Lance wears with his BDUs. So he has to get a new one.

It's kind of yucky out, so I'm not sure we'll go anywhere else today, although I'm kind of anxious now to go to Lowe's and look at storm doors. We needed to replace ours last year, but the windows took priority.

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[katzies.livejournal.com]

Our credit union here only accepts rolled change which is a pain in the butt. I miss my old work where I could just dump it in the machine. But we don't really have that much change anymore since we pay mostly with our credit card to get reward points. I wish there was a machine that took both USD and EUR coins!