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I have a piggy bank that I put pennies in. Nothing but pennies, coinage that I find absolutely useless. In another container, I throw the rest of my loose change, except for the quarter which are necessary for laundry. Yes, daily, I sort my change. When I empty my pockets at the end of the day, I have three distinct places for my change to go.

The piggy bank has been full for some time now, it's been hard to get more pennies into it. The other container had quite a load of coins in it as well. I had to do something with my coinage.

I've used the CoinStar machines for some time now. They take 8.9 cents for every dollars worth of change you redeem. Now that sucks, but on the other hand, most banks charge you a similar amount if you take change to them.

Recently, CoinStar began offering gift cards for the money you turn in. One of the things they offer is gift cards for iTunes. Get this, if you get a gift card, CoinStar doesn't take their 8.9 cents/dollar, the entire amount you redeem goes toward the gift card. So I took my undeterined amount of change down to Albertsons and walked up to the CoinStar machine and dumped my change into it.

My total? Twenty-four dollars and ninety-four cents! Nearly ten dollars worth of pennies! That's a nice iTunes gift card!

So I bought Sue Foley's New Used Car and a Ben Folds iTunes exclusive (Ben is a big iTunes supporter) plus Ben's cover of Bitches Ain't Shit. Listening to the iTunes exclusive right now which has a lot of interview segments with Ben, which is fascinating stuff. I did listen to some of the Sue Foley, but it was the Ben Folds that really intrigued me. I suppose it just depends on how I was feeling today.

So I've got to new things to listen to for the cost of stuff that was just sitting around in my bedroom. That's not too bad.

BOJ