Five years of change
Just before midnight, Sunday, June 26, 2005 • 7 responses
I’ve been keeping coin change in a small plastic box underneath my bed. At some point during my first year in California, I realized the ridiculousness in the fact that I moved about 75 lbs of coin change from one side of the country to the other—Maine to California. I remember the shock of finding out that banks require you to wrap up your pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters into little paper rolls before depositing them. I have childhood memories of arge coin counting machines at banks, clink-clinking away in the background when my mom would take me to the bank before running errands. …