Who needs to count coins?

[arminius58]

I've always saved coins ever since I was child, and got very used to the counting of coins cause I would empty it about once every six months or if I wanted something really badly. One of our banks in town will count it for free and give paper cash for it. Lately though I still empty it about once every two months, and I just take it into my work the nights that I close and will be counting down the till, I get paper money from there and use the change as part of the deposit for the night so no one is actually annoyed at having to count it besides me.

[persephone]

Question for people who do the jars of change: how do you recommend budgeting it? Do I just bleed from every category into savings? (which I assume means I can skip the savings column in the spreadsheet?) Or do you just not do the budget until the end of the week/month, and just have a variable amount in the savings category? What do you do if you exceed the allowance for that?

Our budget isn't exact. Every penny we have isn't accounted for because we only have one "savings" column, but two savings.

We budget like normal and don't go over it. We actually budget for the real savings, things like retirement and emergencies and such, but the "rainy day savings" just gets the change and singles. And there's always wiggle room in our budget.

But that's just how we were both raised. You never plan to spend everyhting you have. Like I said -- we're a bit weird.