What Have You Saved Today?

[Wilma]

Everyone should save something each day.  Today I saved the red cellophane from the heart shaped box of candy that we bought yesterday.  And what did I do with this red cellophane?  Why I rolled it up and inserted it into one of the cardboard tubes that I save.  What I will eventually do with it is still to be determined.

[larryJ]

Sorry, Wilma, I am well past the days of "saving" anything.  I have a garage full of things I have "saved" and really have no use for.  My philosophy now is; Don't save anything you think you might need five years from now, don't save anything you might need a year from now unless it is holiday oriented, i.e., Christmas decorations, etc., don't save anything you think you might have a use for, but you just can't see it right now.  I will save something if I think a friend or neighbor or relative could use it, but otherwise, no, it goes in the trash or the local Salvation Army store.  If we were to sell our house and move, say, to a Condo or apartment, it would be easier to set the place on fire and take the insurance money and run.  That way we don't have to move anything and can buy all new stuff!!! 

HOWEVER----------I will save---------time for my wife on this Valentine's Day-----------good memories from our family get-together yesterday--------------------a place in my heart for those who love me and those that I love.

Larryj

[larryJ]

EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!   Way too mushy!!

Larryj

[Wilma]

If your wife thinks it is too mushy and wants to get rid of you, well---------------------------------.

[larryJ]

Ahhh, I am so sorry again, Wilma.  The Valentine's day card and the orange colored rose delivered to her with her coffee when she woke up this morning guaranteed me at least one more day in the old homestead. 

Larryj

[W. Gray]

I save change and have most of my adult life.

When I lived in Mulvane, the Fourth National Bank in Wichita, [that name always slayed me] where I banked would take all the buckets of change I had and throw them into a hopper. The machine would automatically count the coins and wrap them and spit back any excess. I either took bills and spent them or deposited the amount in the bank.

Never have banked with another bank that has done that. Some of the tellers I have talked to had never heard of such a machine.

[sixdogsmom]

Howard State bank has a counting machine, I always take my jug of change there. No problem! 

[Diane Amberg]

One of our banks has a big hopper machine. It keeps the coins and gives out a paper receipt that a teller will give you bills for.

[Ms Bear]

My husband would never spend his change, even if it was just a few cents he would break another bill to pay with and then at the end of the day put his change in bowl by the bed.  Once a week or so he would count it, roll it and deposit it in the checking account and then I would write a check to the credit union.  That money then went for Christmas and vacations.  Wish I could do it now and maybe I could save some money but it never makes it to the Credit Union anymore.

I saved some fabric scraps from the curtains I am making for a co-worker, they will go into a quilt some day.  Recycled an old quilt that is beyond repair by using it to pad a new pressing surface for pressing curtains and sewing projects.  The ironing board usually isn't the right shape so my brother made me a pressing board while he was here last week.  Think it will work must better than the ironing board.

[Teresa]

I saved the leftover pizza today... *grinning*  ( but I doubt it will be saved for much longer when the *Kjell-bird* gets done with it.)