Counting Coins

[bjarvis]

I've been feeling very mentally unfocused lately so I tried my usual fix: letting myself get lost in some small routine task. In this case, I counted coins.

Friends are constantly giving me Canadian coins. Somehow, these coins turn up in their pockets but since most US vending machines reject them, they don't have much value unless you can slip one past a store clerk. Since I do return to Canada periodically, many folks are holding onto the odd loonie, giving it to me when our paths cross.

Counting up the current collection, I have slightly more than $170 in Canadian coins --I didn't count the pennies as I'm sure there's less than $2 and I just tripped across another small cache of change. Now I just have to get to Canada again some time to deposit them in the bank.

Comments

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

Qanadian Kuarters work in the older style parking meters (the analog 'twist' type not the newer digital ones.) They also work (in Seattle at least) in metro transit fare boxes. However, with that said the advantage to using Qanadian coins is almost nil seeing as how the Qanadian and US dollar are almost par anyhow. Scratch that. Just went to http://oanda.com and chequed the rate and it's now US$ 1.00 = CA$ 1.16.