Organize Coins, Including Your Pocket Change

By Karen Porter, Editor

EasyHomeOrganizing.com

Coins, also known as pocket change, do add up. It can mean paying an extra bill, a night out for dinner or even a family vacation. But you need a designated place to keep your pocket change. You're not organized if your coins are in your car, in the bottom of your purse, in your pants and jacket pockets (the ones you're not even wearing) and between the sofa cushions. Choose just one, perhaps two, places in your home to consistently put pocket change.

♦Sorter - Got a lot of change you'd like to sort and store? Use the Ultra Money Sorter from Organize-Everything. Put your change right into paper coin wrappers (that you buy separately or get from your bank).

♦Tray --Get fancy or simple, big or small with trays. This Desk Valet - Desktop Organizer Tray from Organize-Everything can easily hold your loose coins when you empty your pockets. Put coins in any or all of the compartments. At the end of the week put whatever coins remain into your home bank. If you don't like this tray, get a simpler one compartment tray from the souvenir section of any store. You'll often find coin trays in souvenir shops with the state or city design on them.

♦Valet - A step up in fanciness from your ordinary organizer tray is a valet. The Dresser Valet to the left from Organize-Everything has deeper and lined compartments for your coins but also your watches and rings (the lining is to keep these other items, not the coins, scratch-free).

♦Banks - Of course, your home bank is the ultimate necessity. Coins in valets and trays have to be emptied somewhere. If you're not emptying them straight into the sorter pictured earlier, put them in a home bank until you're ready to sort through and cash in your coins. Make sure you buy a bank that holds a lot of coins. A tiny cute kid-size piggy bank isn't large enough. Look in the novelty section of stores, or in novelty stores, for banks shaped like bowling pins and soda bottles. These hold a LOT of coins. Let's put it this way...if you can easily lift the bank with one hand when it's full, it's too small. Get a bigger bank and don't cash it in until you're ready to do something special with that "pocket change."

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