First Costco parking lot find!

Our Costco in Woodinville, Washington probably has one of the cleanest parking lots around. We typically find several coins inside the store by the hot dog stand/vending machine area, but this time I finally scooped up the first coin outside the box store. Claire said that it's impossible to find money in the lot. I'm thinking with all of the traffic that comes and goes-we are bound to pick up something. Today turned out to be the day that I scored. I was even telling myself, "I'm going to find something before I get in the door," and bam....there it was, albeit - a penny...but a coin indeed!

My truck needed a good washing today, so I hit one of the car wash stations. When I finished washing the truck, I pulled into the first vaccum that was available and a quarter was waiting for me. There also must have been a pocket spill of pennies because I ended up with 12 of them.

Daily total: $.38

Grand total to date: $33.39

New Washington Quarter post!

On October 22, 2009 we posted about our Washington Quarter finds to date, which resulted in 31 quarters. The breakdown of quarters consisted of:

31 total quarters equaled $7.75

Original quarters (13)

New quarter program (16) This breakdown inlcuded 10 state finds.

Canadian quarters (2)

Since that first post of quarters, here is the tally to date: 55 quarters!

55 quarters equals $13.75

Original quarters (23)

New quarters (28) State breakdown has grown from 10 to 19 states

Canadian quarters (4)

State quarter breakdown:

Arizona (3)

Arkansas (1)

Connecticut (1)

Deleware (1)

Georgia (3)

Idaho (1)

Kansas (1)

Missouri (1)

Nebraska (3)

New York (1)

North Carolina (2)

Oregon (1)

Rhode Island (2)

South Carolina (1)

Texas (1)

Utah (1)

Vermont (1)

Washington (2)

West Virginia (1)

Thanks for looking! Good luck and happy hunting!

QFC and car wash brings in $.55 for the day

Another week has passed by, so that means a new breakdown of finds has been posted. Today started out pretty good for the finds. I went into QFC to grab a newspaper, and for the first time found $.15 in the copy machine coin return (nickel and dime). It's actually the first time that I ever looked in the coin return. Do you think that we missed out on some finds in the past?

After my son's football practice, we stopped by our favorite car wash and found one quarter and a nickel. The one Missouri coin helped our Washington State Quarters collection. We have eleven different states to date. We also ended up finding 10 pennies earlier at the parking lot at Top Foods.

Daily total find: $.55

Grand total to date: $26.92

107 finding days averages out to $.25 per day

After all of my US Post Office visits-I finally found something!

Before we started hunting for coins-I would see a couple of pennies here and there at the post office. When the hunt was on, money finding was scarce until today! I normally pick up our business mail a few times a week and do my normal ground scanning like a metal detector would. Of course my eyes are searching high places too. My first stop is the parking lot with a quick look. Next I come upon the newspapers. To my surprise-the US Today had 4 Washington Quarters just waiting for me. Right place at the right time-indeed!

Keep your eyes on the prize!

Happy Hunting!

Early morning find - $1.00 (4 quarters)

Enjoy the photos from our early summer trip to D.C. This is George Washington's home in Mt. Vernon. General George Washington/President Washington deservedly belongs on coins and bills.

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!