When I was in high school, I bought a big coin cointainer shaped in the form of a big bottle of beer - Red Dog. I chose that because I didn't realize that Red Dog was really a form of beer and I liked the container... anyway.... When Ry and I got married, we counted the money in it which was a hundred dollars or so and we used it in Hawaii on our honeymoon. We decided to start fresh when we got married and we've been adding our loose change to it for almost 7 years now! Well, over the years, we've counted it and rolled it to ease w/ future counting, but we hadn't counted it in almost 3 years! So last night, we took on the challenge after J went to bed... and geez - we have almost $550! How exciting! As much as I want to use this money for my new camera that I want SOOOOOO desperately... Our original plan was to use to to go to Hawaii after 5 years of marriage... but! We did NOT have enough money in there for that and at the time, didn't have enough to go to Hawaii for our anniversary either....
So what will we use it for, you ask!? We're going to keep saving for another 3 years... In 2012, we will celebrate 10 years of marriage and we've decided we want to go to London for the Olympics! :) So maybe this money will buy one of our plane tickets to London! In the meantime, we'll keep chugging this big ol' thing (that I can no longer lift, but can scoot!) around wherever we move... lol!
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That's so awesome! I can't keep my hand out of our jar long enough to even fill it up. I always steal the quarters out of it to get a Sonic Dr Pepper!
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