Over the holiday weekend I found $.40. That brings me up to a total of $7.44, and almost doubles my ‘organic’ total to $.84. The broader idea is to eventually make multiple fairly subtle changed to my behavoir to hopefully help me save money, and reduce debt.
To be perfectly clear what I’m currently doing is walking around (almost entirely with my dog) and looking for change. When I see it I pick it up. this is a quite subtle change from what I used to do except that now in addition to walking my dog I’m also picking up money. There is a secondary hope that I will walk more as a result. Whenever I collect $10.00 or so I’m going to deposit it into the bank account that I recently created. Specifically it’s the bank account I am depositing rent checks into and having the payments on my first mortgage come out of. Because there is a super narrow difference between the amount I am charging in rent, and the amount I pay on my mortgage I wanted to increase the size of the buffer so I don’t get into trouble if there’s a clerical error, or an unexpected fee.
Jason
