Originally Posted by
MooreImpressive
pretty simple: do you keep the change you find under the seats, or in the door panels/cupholders/ashtray? of course, you are going to vacuum up a lot of it from under the seats without even seeing it, so do you go back and clean out the vac at the end of the job? would be interested in hearing how people differ on this. I have always only kept what ends up in my vac, anything within site is removed, rinsed off, and put in a ziplock bag, then laid in the seat after finishing the vehicle. even then, when I do take the time to clean out the change from the vac every so often, its a lot of money. the location I spend most of my time at gets about $50 a month from this, on average. I feel bad about it really, but I also know that most of that under seat coinage is covered in nasty grime, so I am the one that has to glove up and clean it off before taking it to one of those CoinStar type counter machines at the grocery store. it is kind of nice to get $50 in free groceries every month, lol. have never once had a client say anything about missing anything (of course they have no idea whats under their seat), and have gotten MANY clients who have thanked me for keeping and bagging what I do return.
I`m really OCD when it comes to change. I don`t like it and I don`t want it. I give all the change I get away, unless someone pays me in rolled change then in that case it goes into a 5-gallon change bucket that I`ll never live to see filled.
My logic: I make more money with the time saved not dealing with change than the time spend dealing with it (cleaning sticky coins, rolling it, going to the bank with it, counting it to buy something, etc.). It also makes people happy when you let them keep the change so I look at it like a win-win. I`ll admit there`s no logic to throwing money away but I just don`t want to deal with $0.39 of loose change, someone eventually picks it up anyways.
Autopian`s will be happy to know that I`ve switched to buying everything with a credit card and never looked back (altho I`m also against buying things on credit).
I also don`t return can`s or bottles now that I have to put them in a machine because it`s also counter-productive (tops out at about $25/hr assuming the cans are free). I let my kids and their friends have the cans and bottles to return and it makes them happy and keeps them busy (another win-win)
Note: if I was getting $50 a week in change I probably wouldn`t throw it out/give it away.
How much time does it take you to salvage the $50 in change from the vacuum (is it productive enough to make it worth it)? Doesn`t coin star charge like %10?
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