23 Years of Change

Chris' parents bought him a Coca-Cola penny bank when he was 9 years old. He has been dropping change in it ever since. He decided to count it since he is on vacation. We weighed it before the counting began. It's hard to read, but it says 85.2 pounds!

The bottle is plastic, and it cracked when we moved here, but the movers duct taped it.

Everyone got busy rolling coins. We borrowed the coin counter from an officer Chris works with.

It was easier to rip into the side of the bottle since it was broken already.

The worker bees. They worked from about 1 pm to 8 pm on Veteran's Day. Look at all those rolls!

FINALLY, the bottle was empty. They look exhausted.

Any guesses on how much?

Chris spent his years of coin savings on a new DROID X for himself, and since the girls did the majority of the work, he decided they earned a nice reward. He was very generous, and took them the next day to the shoe store and bought them each a pair of UGGS!