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Nov. 1st, 2008 06:38 pmIt's another weekend, which means more laundry. Which means more quarters spent, and as always, we could still use more.
Here's one way I generate quarters from my unwitting partners in laundry, the vending machines at work. (I hit them when my supplies of Diet Coke that I bring in from outside run out, or, similarly, snacks -- the machines are typically expensive.) If the price of an item in the machines is an integral multiple of $0.25, no sweat -- quarters will come back from feeding in dollar bills (except, of course, for even dollar prices). But if not, the key is to feed in the correct amount of odd change BEFORE feeding in dollar bills, such that the total you've fed minus the price of your item is a multiple of $0.25. You'll want to feed the change in first because many machines will simply return change once you've given it more in dollar bills than the price of its items.
As an example: Diet Cokes are $1.40 at work (damned expensive for 20 oz.), so I give the nice machine $2.15 before coding for a bottle (and getting the lovely show that must be part of the price); that nets me three quarters. Two of those in a typical week makes for a small washerload of laundry, or half an hour of drier time plus a coin to flip to see if I can become telepathic. (Not yet. Trust me, you'll know if I have succeeded :-)
Here's one way I generate quarters from my unwitting partners in laundry, the vending machines at work. (I hit them when my supplies of Diet Coke that I bring in from outside run out, or, similarly, snacks -- the machines are typically expensive.) If the price of an item in the machines is an integral multiple of $0.25, no sweat -- quarters will come back from feeding in dollar bills (except, of course, for even dollar prices). But if not, the key is to feed in the correct amount of odd change BEFORE feeding in dollar bills, such that the total you've fed minus the price of your item is a multiple of $0.25. You'll want to feed the change in first because many machines will simply return change once you've given it more in dollar bills than the price of its items.
As an example: Diet Cokes are $1.40 at work (damned expensive for 20 oz.), so I give the nice machine $2.15 before coding for a bottle (and getting the lovely show that must be part of the price); that nets me three quarters. Two of those in a typical week makes for a small washerload of laundry, or half an hour of drier time plus a coin to flip to see if I can become telepathic. (Not yet. Trust me, you'll know if I have succeeded :-)
