Money, Money, Money

Parker has been bugging me for a few months days to take him to the bank to "cash in" his coins.

He has a lot.
So we didn't want to just go to the grocery store and use their CoinStar machine.
It charges some outrageous percentage like 7%.
Our bank has a counting machine........but only in SOME branches.
And they won't count coins on Monday or Friday.
I hate to inconvenience them!

So we were hanging out the other day and I could either clean the house or load up the coins and go to the bank.
We chose the bank.
MY coins were already organized.
Parker needed to dump his from his two containers into a bag.

Then he needed time to sweep them up and put them in a new bag after the first one broke all over the laundry room floor.

I could not lift my coins.

They would all fit into the bag, but the bag was way to heavy.  I had to resort to the tote bag AND a backpack but I still couldn't lift the bag.  Okay, I'm not a weakling, but I couldn't lift the bag AND carry it AND not whine.

Parker volunteered to carry the bag.
Okay, I made him and then he said he was charging me a 2% fee.

Parker insisted we look around for suspicious cars at stoplights.

And he scouted out the bank parking lot for anyone who looked like they would hold us up.

We waited for the 80 year old man to back out of the parking lot before getting out with our bags and backpack.

Even though the bank was empty and we were the only customers in the place,

I don't think they were too excited to count our coins.

Guess how much we had!!!

Guess!

I'll give you a hint -

I had more than 3 times what Parker had.

I've been stashing the cash for about 5 years.

Go ahead!  Guess!

And like Parker, the winner does NOT get 2%.