Immediate ramifications: I've achieved somewhere around $15 in change in two weeks... my daily spending limit after food and housing is around 8 bucks if I want to stay on my self imposed minimum wage... not that I have been, due to a recent trip and poor willpower. So now it looks like the next step is to pay for my lunch with coins.
Coins.
As a kid, I can remember gathering up all the loose change around the house and walking the two adventurous Cuernavaca blocks to get to the neighborhood C-store. The road was busy, especially at a crossing that people sped through at the bottom of a steep hill. We turned our bullion to candy: Bonkers, M&Ms, Dr. Pepper, RC Cola, Jolt (w/ 3x the caffeine). A few years later, a larger store opened a mile down the road. We made the trek a few times, but ultimately we chose the smaller, closer store. I spent more coins there than I've spent since everywhere else combined.
Coins.
My brother and I almost purchased our first modem - 14.4kbps, $120 - with tons of coins. The poor Best Buy guy at the register got about 5 minutes into findout out if he had to count it all out when all of the sudden our dearest mother bomb-dropped 6 crisp twenties... badamn! She pocketed the coin, but when we got home it went back to the various change caches throughout the house. So we bought more candy.
Coins.
Haven't used them much since. Gonna go grab me some candy from the vending machine down the hall.
