The "Cash Wastebasket" Technique (Part 3)

Here's an extra solution, and this time it involves a sturdy, strong and thick trash bag, a wastebasket or trash bin, your "paper-and-coin filth", very cheap bags of preformed money rolls, lots of space to place your full bags, a coin-sorting device of some kind (mechanical or manual), any cup for scooping your coins, a heavy-duty cash box, string or rubber bands, and some common sense. This is spring cleaning, but with a unique twist. This isn't your average, everyday housecleaning. Your regular trash is off the hook. It's your "special trash" that needs to be recycled. And when I mean "special trash", I meant your "spare change" lying around the house. Any spare change you receive from your paycheck after cashing out, or any spare change you find outside, is optional.

1. Find a trash bin you aren't using, and insert a trash bag that's strong enough for your metaphorical "trash". If you don't have either one or both, go to the nearest store that has that, and use what's left of your money in your wallet to buy them. Make sure that your bags AREN'T transparent or see-through, and make sure that they don't bust open when heavy.

2. Back at home, it's time to turn your house into a local treasure hunt, one that you or your family, can participate in. Keep you or your family's eyes open. If you find any legal tender in the form of spare change or dollar bills less than $1 dollar lying around your house, place it in your literal "Cash Wastebasket". Then move on to the next area that your "trash" resides. If you find any rare money such as a $0.50 cent coin with John F. Kennedy, or even a coin from another country like Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, etc., store it in another place also out of sight.

3. One thing that's important is to separate your trash into two types. Put your coins in one bag, and put your dollar bills in another bag. Put them both together, and you might end up having a hard time getting your dollars out of the bag only to end up ripping up good money.

4. When your wastebasket is full with coins and dollar bills, do not use a twist-tie that might fail. If it's too full, empty some of it out and bring another trash bag, and repeat steps 1 and 2.

5. Place your "money bags" in a secret place where NO ONE can reach them, and make sure that only you can reach them. We don't want anyone, not even those you love, know or don't know sifting through your bags for your stashes. Your private storage area for your stash must be more than that. It has to be a place that no one but you can reach. But I don't recommend a garage, because bystanders can try to disable your locks and try to snatch your bags. I'd suggest a basement or attic instead, away from the sights of others but you. If you live alone, I'd think about buying house protection and security just in case. We also don't want anyone breaking into your house searching for heavy bags that could be stolen and your time of cleaning your house would be for nothing as well. BE EXTRA CAREFUL!!!

6. When your basement or attic of money bags becomes full, wait until you're all alone when your family is gone. If you live alone, pull out your bag full of preformed money wraps, and when you open your cash stash, be extra careful that it doesn't spill all over the floor. Instead, scoop a cupful of your coins on the bed, but not too much.

7. Pull out your coin sorting device. It's time to count, sort and recycle your well-deserved treasures you found and saved.

8. This may take a long time, but when you're done, place your wrapped coins in your cash box. If your cash box becomes full, place the excess cash back in your basement or attic until you buy another cash box. This is only a stopgap measure until you find another way to store your heavy "trash".

9. Now for the "paper trash". Repeat steps 7 and 8, and stack your dollar bills from $1 to $5. Place them in the same cash box if it isn't too heavy.

10. Recycle some of your "cash trash" into extra preformed coin wrappers and another cash box, and repeat the steps described here.

Well, I hope that this 3-piece article helped you in more ways than one. I have tried the first two of the three methods myself and up to now I have collected $28.50 of money. This is so simple that even a 3-year old can do it! You can do it1 Deposit your "useless filthy money" into your "wastebasket"! Try it! You won't be sorry! You will thank me, and yourself, for doing so.

If you want to think of it another way, think of it as doing self-payment to yourself, and if you have any other members of your family or any friends you have, tell them to spread this technique around! Money may make the world go around, but this will make your world go around as well and change your life. I can promise you that. Remember, recycle your money as you would recycle your trash like plastic, glass, aluminum, paper, all of that, and you will help save the world, yourself, your family, your friends, and everyone in it.