Look what 2 minutes of my time brought in!

I found $.43 in under two minutes-which calculates out to $12.60 in an hour tax free...not bad. It's not much, but it's better than a hole in the head.

The family hasn't been out hunting lately. It's the hustle and bustle of the season for everyone. Wouldn't this be the best time of year to be out looking? That's what got me to stop by the local car wash to take a gander today. I hit my favorite vacuum stations and scooped up the coins quickly.

Christmas will soon be upon us - and everyone is excited. We have a metal detector picked out-so hopefully Santa will come through!

*Update: Claire and I went grocery shopping and to the video store this evening and came up with another 4 pennies for the pot. We both went in separate entrances to Albertsons and met each other with a Lincoln. Her penny was shinier than mine. At the checkout counter she was basically standing on a copper coin-which I gladly picked up (she didn't even see it). My two pennies to her one. The video store was the last stop, and she spotted the final coin of the evening-another Honest Abe. We ended up splitting the evening-a tie for finds.

Total finds for the day: $.47

Grand total to date: $33.01

Good luck and happy hunting!

Max's football team makes it to the playoffs!

Max had a birthday party to go to prior to his big football game that could put him in the playoffs. At his party we found a Lincoln Penny face up. We knew that it would be a perfect day! The party went well. The football playoff was a 5 game shootout. All of the teams in the division were 5-2 for the season. Max plays tight end and shares some defensive positions. We won the coin toss and opted to receive the ball first. On the first play we fumbled the ball on the snap, but recovered. We ended up getting a first down and scored on the next play. The team picked up the extra point. Now we were on defense. We needed to hold the team to move on to the playoffs. They held the opponent as long as they could, but they ended up scoring. Now it was the extra point. Max was called in to help stop the play. They came to his side. The ball was snapped and the running back took the handoff trying to bust through the line. Everything was in slow motion. The back is breaking through the line. Two guys grab on to the runner and one of them is number 21-Max-grabbing the runner-stopping him at the one yard line. The opponent is denied of the extra point-losing the shootout 7-6. Max's team advances to the finals. Awesome!!

Daily find $.28

Grand total to date: $20.46

98 finding days averages out to $.21 per day. Check out Max's number.....equals our average daily find!

Soccer field nets us $.10! Pumpkin farm zilch...

Today was sparse for the coin pick ups. I picked up the Sunday times at the store and found 2 pennies.

We went to Erich's soccer game-hoping to come up with something. One of his teammates had a corner kick that Erich was able to head in for a score!!! They played an awesome game, but came up on the short end. We did however score our very first find at the fields-a dime.

Our final stop for the day was the pumpkin farm. Hay was all over the ground-which made hunting difficult. We scooped up a couple of pumpkins and got in some cool photos. The hunt turned up zip, but the outing was grand!

Daily total: $.12

Costco, Bowling and Car Wash

Hunt, find and post. It was our mission for the day. Max had a football game on Saturday afternoon. The parking lot and bleachers left us penniless. We had some hunger pains-so Costco came a calling. Hot dogs were on the menu-with some gellato ice cream for dessert. Andrea spotted the first coin. It was a Lincoln-of course-tilted on its side where the floor and wall met to buy the dogs. The diners were four deep-waiting to buy their grub. Not a soul picked up the lonely copper item-that is-until Andrea bent down to pick up her prize. While we were waiting in line-Steve toured the vending machines and spotted a coin. The first Canadian cent was found. Max was number three-another Lincoln find.

The family decided to take in some bowling for the evening. The place was packed. Andrea was on a mission. She scored both in finds and with the pins. Andrea found $.26 and a cool, blue toy elephant. Claire found the fake ring-and Erich found a token for a video game that he used. Andrea ends up beating all of us with a score of 115 for bowling. Erich gets the ultimate strike by coming up to the lane facing backwards and bowls through his legs and gets a strike. Each person ended up with a couple of strikes and spares.....cool!

The final stop was a late night car wash. We used the car wash in a different way. Max and Andrea spot the pennies and Steve gets the Roosevelt Dime. We were hunting in the dark. There was limited light from the car wash alleys. Someone washing their truck asked us if we needed a flashlight. We told him that our family does strange scavenger hunts and we were fine.

Total daily find: $.41

Grand Total to date: $15.60

83 finding days averages out to $.18 a day

Could average out to $65.70 per year.