I added $2.91 to the coin jar after buying a lighter at the store for fireworks. Then I decided to see if I had enough coins to roll anything. I had just enough to do nickels. Tomorrow I will make a deposit of $30 into the safety net portion of the Emergency Fund at CU#2. If I keep going at this rate I am going to have $1500 (my next goal) in the EF by the end of August.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that a few dollars here and a few coins there don't matter. They add up and every little bit truly does help.

I have had two Canadian $10 bills sitting in my coin jar for about 5 years now. At the time the Canadian dollar had practically flat lined so we never bothered to exchange it back after our vacation. We figured that we'd go back to Canada some time soon, as we usually went up once a year, and could just use it then. Well, it's been five years and we haven't gone back. Border crossing strictures changed and because we are now living in a residence that we don't own and have no utilities in our name, we cannot get a special border crossing license or a passport. (If we really wanted to we could put one of Mom's utility bills in our name but it costs money to switch it over and it'd cost to eventually switch it back again and we don't feel like paying the extra).

So we'll just wait to go to Canada again until after we buy our next house and the utilities are in our name again. Meanwhile the Canadian dollar is worth a lot more than it was back then and I'm thinking I might as well exchange it and throw it in the savings account. First I will make sure they take it though before bothering with it. I think there might be some looneys ($1 coin has a loon on it) and tooneys ($2 coin) in there as well. It's not much, but again, every little bit counts.