coinage

By anders pearson 17 May 2002

i accumulate change like no one i know. every night i come home and dump out a big handful of change that’s accumulated in my pockets. i’m not really sure where it all comes from.

<p>over about the last year, this has built up to about half a cubic foot of change that i&#8217;ve dumped in a box in my apartment. last night i had a slight <span class="caps">OCD</span> moment and decided to sort and count it. i simply didn&#8217;t have the time or energy to completely sort it though so i settled for just seperating out the quarters (the only coin with any practical value whatsoever as far as i&#8217;m concerned) and counting those.</p>

<p>$100.50 </p>

<p>just in quarters. i was pretty impressed.</p>

<p>while that was kind of entertaining, i&#8217;m really looking forward to the day when we can use digital cash and smartcards for everything instead of having to deal with heavy and inconvenient coins.</p>