Comments on: Start Your Own Tip Jar! http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2008/06/24/start-your-own-tip-jar/ Helping Young Entrepreneurs Grow Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:34:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: chris.pund http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2008/06/24/start-your-own-tip-jar/comment-page-1/#comment-11431 chris.pund Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:22:36 +0000 http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/?p=428#comment-11431 Great comments guys! I agree that keeping your change jar in a hard to get to place or in a container that will ake a little time to open is an extra deterent from being able to quickly access it. Mine is sitting on a shelf behind my desk at home - this means I see it every time I go to my desk and sit down. It's more tempting to empty when their are dollar bills in then just change; but I am going to hold out as long as I can (which may only be a week more or so HAHA). Great comments guys! I agree that keeping your change jar in a hard to get to place or in a container that will ake a little time to open is an extra deterent from being able to quickly access it. Mine is sitting on a shelf behind my desk at home – this means I see it every time I go to my desk and sit down. It’s more tempting to empty when their are dollar bills in then just change; but I am going to hold out as long as I can (which may only be a week more or so HAHA).

]]> By: Ellis Benus http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2008/06/24/start-your-own-tip-jar/comment-page-1/#comment-11430 Ellis Benus Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:12:10 +0000 http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/?p=428#comment-11430 As I also try to primarily use cash like yourself, another awesome savings venue is to keep all spare change in a hard to get to location. Personally over the past 10 years I have almost filled a 1920's Glass Culligan style water bottle... The thing weighs over 100 pounds. Why hard-to-get-to? The opening of this thing makes it virtually impossible to get any amount of change out of it. Do not dip into this change and it will accumulate rapidly. My wife and I are going on a vacation in August, and I suspect that the spare change should equal close to $1,000. Pretty amazing what a few cents can do. :-) In the future, I am going to cash in my change more often and put it in a CD or other hard-to-get-to interest bearing account. As I also try to primarily use cash like yourself, another awesome savings venue is to keep all spare change in a hard to get to location. Personally over the past 10 years I have almost filled a 1920’s Glass Culligan style water bottle… The thing weighs over 100 pounds.

Why hard-to-get-to? The opening of this thing makes it virtually impossible to get any amount of change out of it. Do not dip into this change and it will accumulate rapidly.

My wife and I are going on a vacation in August, and I suspect that the spare change should equal close to $1,000. Pretty amazing what a few cents can do. :-)

In the future, I am going to cash in my change more often and put it in a CD or other hard-to-get-to interest bearing account.

]]> By: Undine http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2008/06/24/start-your-own-tip-jar/comment-page-1/#comment-11428 Undine Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:40:33 +0000 http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/?p=428#comment-11428 I have an actual piggy bank from my childhood that I use for just this purpose! The great thing about using a piggy bank is that I have to actually unscrew it to access the cash inside, so I'm not as tempted to break into it for minor things and instead can save up. I have an actual piggy bank from my childhood that I use for just this purpose! The great thing about using a piggy bank is that I have to actually unscrew it to access the cash inside, so I’m not as tempted to break into it for minor things and instead can save up.

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