New car wash stop brings in $.27

Another job site took me to a different car wash. It's always great to run into a new place for coin hunting-especially when it produces the mighty round object(s). Most stops produce some kind of find-and this one brought in two dimes and seven pennies.

Daily total find: $.27
Grand total to date: $30.54
120 finding days averages out to $.25 per day

High fives for The Lincoln Penny Project!

Breakdowns of the week.... Topping the $30.00 mark!

Here's another week for The Lincoln Penny Project. Let's see how we did!

Last week's grand total was: $26.92

This week's grand total is: $30.03

$5.00 (1) = $5.00

$1.00 (2) = $2.00

$.25 (49) + 2 Canadian (51) = $12.75

$.10 (52) + 1 Canadian (54) = $5.40

$.05 (25) = $1.35

$.01 (367) 3 wheat backs, 3 Canadian (373) = $3.73

This is an 11% increase from last week.

Breakdown of the finds!

Here is our money find total since July 12, 2009. There are days that we go without finding any money-or other days where we find loose change and didn't get a chance to post. This is a fun event for the family and each individual. Not only does this give us some extra exercise, it adds to our competitive nature to come up with something by the end of the day or week. We highly suggest this-give it a try! Happy Hunting!

$5.00 total-1 = $5.00

$1.00 total-2 = $2.00

$.25 total-9 = $2.25

$.10 total 23, 1 Canadian Dime = $2.40

$.05 total 12 = $.60

$.01 total 108 = $1.08

Grand Total = $13.33

78 Finding Days averages out to $.17 per day

Finds of the day!

My first find came when I went to my favorite Shell Station/Convenience Center for my Mt. Dew and Take 5 bar. I handed the clerk $2.65-and my change should have been $.02, but I opted to give it to him. He always gives me more change, so this time I let him keep the difference. On my way out of the store to my truck, I found 2 pennies. The next stop at the Shell Station was the air/water stop for automobiles. Sitting by the fire lane was a Roosevelt Dime tails up.

My next two stops for the day were also profitable. The lunch stop was Round Table Pizza. A lady next to me was finishing her food and grabbed for her keys. I heard some change drop-which hit the metal leg of the table. She stooped down to pick something up. On my way out, I noticed that she left $.26 for me.

My final find of the day was at Albertsons. I bought a newspaper after lunch-and I used the personal scan counter. A George Washington one dollar bill was waiting for me in the bill return. Thanks Joe!

Total find for the day: $1.35

Total tally: $12.86

75 Finding Days

Breakdown of finds

Is anyone curious of how many pennies vs. dimes, nickels, etc. that we have recovered from the lost? Here it is anyways! Take a gander...........

Dollar Bills-1=$1.00

Quarters-5=$1.25

Dimes-17=$1.70+1 Canadian Dime=$1.80

Nickels-9=$.45

Pennies-75=$.75

Year to date finds (since July 12th)........big drum roll please! $5.25

This equates to $.075 per day. That's a venti mocha (for those of you that appreciate coffee) plus a New York Times paper. I'll take the paper and leave the mocha. That daily sum would feed the piggy bank $27.38 per year. Not bad....Check back later for another breakdown. Does anyone think we can average more than $.075 per day? We do!

Woodinville Costco find

While we were shopping, our eyes were peeled for some metallic objects. The shopping trip was almost complete-and here we thought we came up empty. Claire spots the find-a quarter sitting under the Costco ice cream cart. Steve jumps quickly to the rescue and gets in a push-up position to scoop up the find. A penny was also spotted nearby. Don't you hate when you have the video button on when snapping a photo??

Do the Puyallup

Scones, Elephant Ears, Gyros, Roasted Corn, games, rides and fun! We did the Puyallup on a perfect, sunny Sunday afternoon. Steve found $.26, Andrea found $.06, Claire found $.05 and Erich found $.03. It was a great afternoon. Andrea had the best find of the day-a difficult nickel find near the sidewalk in some grass. Claire was the runner up for best find....she found an anchored bolt in the concrete that she wasn't able to pull out of the ground.

Leavenworth and Wenatchee bound

Claire and I decided to take a quick day trip east of the mountains. Our first stop was Leavenworth-Wilkommen! The day was toasty and the bratwursts tasted great. We thought for sure that we would spot some shiny finds on the ground, but only came up with one penny. Wie schade-too bad. We were pumped that we found something. On a whim-we cruised even farther-to hit the town of Wenatchee.

Thirty plus years ago, my mom and I would drive over the pass to stay with my dad at a trailer park in Wenatchee. As Claire and I drove through the town of Wenatchee-my recollection of where we were came back to me. We went over a bridge across the Wenatchee River and spotted where we bowled. When I stayed with my dad for parts of the summer while he worked on the east side of the mountains, I would work at a place called Eddie Mays Inn. I would do laundry work-cleaning the linens in all of the rooms. We drove around to find the Inn. The location of where I thought it was stood a Fred Meyer. We went inside the store and asked a few people if they knew what was here before the store. Sure enough it was Eddie Mays Inn. I was so pumped to be standing in the same place 30+ years later-thinking about my dad and being with him during those times. We walked the parking lot to take a couple of photos and found a shiny nickel. Thanks Dad!