See I buy from Amazon on a weekly basis. Well not on Amazon but through Amazon. For example lets just random pick a book and I'll go look. How about a copy of Roughin' It by Mark Twain. Okay amazon says I can get a 'heavily used' copy for $1.85. If I want to pay $3.50 I can get a good condition one.
For $1.85 + $3 in shipping and such is it worth my time to walk to the train stop, pop up at my local library, find the book, check it out, pop back on a train, read it and then have to do it all over again (else I incur the fines)? No ma'am it is not. Amazon is my friend.
I'm also selling zillions of CDs on it right now as well. :)
I think the chubster and the superchunk is a bad idea. For two reasons I will now enumerate:
1) Change gets stolen at workplaces all the time. 2) Do you want to cart a full chubster's worth of coins home with you every few weeks?
Yeah but... I looooooove the change. I'm a bit obsessed with it, actually. More than the change, I love hoarding things. In my T-pass wallet? I've got $39 stored up from leftover dollar bills.
Yeah, I agree about the security risk and no, I don't want to haul tubby's tonnage home every month or so... So what I need is to find a more secure way to have a 'jar' at work... and maybe it could be a bigger jar so I only have to take it home every couple months (or sooner, if I am lucky enough to land the job I desperately crave).
Luckily, I have the ability to lock my desk drawer at night, so that's something. And I am in a company of 8 people. Also? I don't get lunch or breaks, so I'm always at my desk.
The fishbowl probably wouldn't work out, though. Hmm.
Ah well if you don't have cleaning crews and other folks in at night then you're less likely to have corporate raiding of tubby. I think you should take precautions all the same. An unopenable "jar" maybe. A note on your "jar" that says "Money for orphaned un-baptized crack babies with AIDS" is a good way to keep folks from stealing from you as well.
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For $1.85 + $3 in shipping and such is it worth my time to walk to the train stop, pop up at my local library, find the book, check it out, pop back on a train, read it and then have to do it all over again (else I incur the fines)? No ma'am it is not. Amazon is my friend.
I'm also selling zillions of CDs on it right now as well. :)
I think the chubster and the superchunk is a bad idea. For two reasons I will now enumerate:
1) Change gets stolen at workplaces all the time.
2) Do you want to cart a full chubster's worth of coins home with you every few weeks?
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Yeah, I agree about the security risk and no, I don't want to haul tubby's tonnage home every month or so... So what I need is to find a more secure way to have a 'jar' at work... and maybe it could be a bigger jar so I only have to take it home every couple months (or sooner, if I am lucky enough to land the job I desperately crave).
Luckily, I have the ability to lock my desk drawer at night, so that's something. And I am in a company of 8 people. Also? I don't get lunch or breaks, so I'm always at my desk.
The fishbowl probably wouldn't work out, though. Hmm.
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