[OC] Grandfather died in Feb, never used a bank. There are dozens of buckets of change hidden around

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Rapscallious1 on September 9th, 2022 at 14:00 UTC »

Don’t throw out the mattress too fast

HylanderUS on September 9th, 2022 at 14:06 UTC »

Looks like you're about to fix the national coin shortage, thank you!

isometrixk on September 9th, 2022 at 14:08 UTC »

I used to be a bank teller at Commerce Bank which had "Penny Arcade" - free coin counting machine. It started off as a belt mechanism and was upgraded a few times over the years to be quicker & more efficient due to the amount of people that would deposit spare change.

It wasn't uncommon for us to be shipping out thousands of dollars from the penny arcade every week - probably an average between 7k-10k actually.

Cleaning and maintaining the machine became a chore. We had to do regular tests 3x a day to ensure it was counting accurately and bags would be filled constantly. I still feel anxious of the days we'd have a line out the door on a Friday evening and then someone walks in with 10 gallon jugs of coins to use our machine.

And it constantly broke for 2 reasons: dirt and objects. Coins are dirty but when a machine is counting thousands of them quickly the whole machine turns nearly black. Not to mention people have thrown in keys, paper, bugs, shredded metal - and once, a dead mouse that was mixed with their coin. Yes - we had to ship out bags of coin with shredded dead mouse parts mixed in.

Naturally the machine would be constantly down and we would be yelled at for inconveniencing our customers - sometimes we were asked to count the change manually if they were desperate enough or were going through hard times.

And we were always known to be open - we had store hours that other banks didn't offer - even on snow days. I remember having to open the branch after one bad storm, all of our cars were stuck in the unplowed parking lot. I was a supervisor at this point, and was immediately called by our region supervisor pissed because we were opening a half hour late.

We opened and actually had a teller (from another branch) stop to work at our branch because her car get stuck as well. We had 2 people come in that day:

Penny arcade. Came in 30 minutes before we closed. Wasn't even a customer with us. Robber - walked in 15 minutes before we closed and went to the girl from another branch. Took all her money from her drawer and ran away on foot (smart, honestly).

Cops took way too long because the roads still sucked. Never caught the guy.

Anyway - judging by your picture, I'd say you have around $35-$45 in pennies. Taking the average (and say you have 36 buckets) you have around $1500 in pennies. (I would love to know how close I am per bucket!)