I started saving all of my 500 yen coins about a year and a half ago. Every time I got one of the large, gold coins as change I would save it and try my hardest not to spend it unless I was forced too.
I found myself paying with 1000 yen bills plus change so that I would always get a 500 yen coin back. It became a small obsession of mine. Even Glenn would save them for me so that I could add them to my piggy bank can that I bought at the 100 yen store.
Well, I finally filled it up! I had initially planned on using the savings to buy a ticket to a port call this summer, but then that port call got canceled.
So I got out the can opener to count my pot of gold. For once, a low exchange rate is a good thing! That means more dollars!
I expected to be shy of the 100,000 yen that the can claimed, but in fact, it held much more! Almost 50% more. Ya ta!
I kind of felt like a little kid, when my dad would take me to the bank to dump my mason jar of change in the machine and we would bet to see who was closest.
Well, I felt like that until I got my $1,524 from the bank! Now I'm thinking business class on the way home to America!
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