Many of us have a fairly substantial tub holding spare change that we never bothered to cash. And many of us have a local super market with a CoinStar counting machine.
CoinStar machines can give you an Amazon gift certificate rather than cash, and the gift certificate does not incur coin counting fees. I emptied all of my change earlier this week, figuring that I could find a way to spend $117(plus 3.90 Euros that they just spit back at you...) at Amazon easily enough, but then I read yesterday about Child's Play kicking off and turned that into books for Boston Children's Hospital.
So if you want to give a little more to Child's Play, empty those coin tubs into a CoinStar, get the gift certificate option, and help out some needy kids with money you have just sitting around.
"I was there, I was there, the day Horus slew the Emperor." -Cpt Garviel Loken
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I am glad PA came up with this, and even happier to see it take off like it has.