Man Buys Truck with Spare Change
January 4, 2008 by Deborah Ng
Filed under General, Simpler Thinking, finances
If you’re like most of us, you have a cup or container designated to contain spare chage. I have a glass bowl on my dresser and a five gallon jar in the garage. Some of the spare change is used for milk money or parking meters. Every now and then we’ll roll up all the coins and put it into our checking our savings account. It’s amazing how much it accumulates.
Paul Brant of Frankfurt, Indiana saved up $25,000 worth of spare change and bought himself a brand new Dodge Ram pickup truck! It took 13 years for him to save the change.But this isn’t the first time Brant used change to buy a vehicle. In 1994 he used about $36,000 in spare change to buy a Dodge Neon.
Brant saves his change in coffee cans, piggy banks and water jugs. The problem is, no bank wants all his change so the car dealership sent an armored car to collect it all.
I love these stories.
My dad has bought televisions and kitchen appliances with only spare change, but that definitely beats all of his stories!
I’d hate to have to lift that many coins, though.
I’m lucky if I can buy coffee or pay a meter with my spare change : )
We bought our first computer with spare change. We rolled it ourselves when it was time to turn it in. We used our last round of spare change to pay off the car early.