Spend them at the airport on your way out. Every last ichi-en of them. Buy expensive chocolates and a good bottle of sake. Sayonara!
Kristen:
Sounds like a great idea… except my problem isn’t really how to spend that money, but rather what to do with these coins. I sure as hell won’t be going to the airport tomorrow with a couple kilos in coins on top of my already way overweight luggage… 😉
As for even trying to spend them in a store: I’d probably still be here next week counting the coins…
Throw them into a fountain and make a bunch of wiches.
Find a random hobo or buddhist beggar and give them?
What did you end up doing with it all? *hoping that it is not in little piles all around my place…*
You could attempt to make one (or perhaps a few) nifty Chinese Daoist coin swords:
Not too sure if the Japanese have their own variant?
Neuro:
I’d probably be hauled off for littering.
Michel:
Hobos? What hobos? assuming you can find some homeless people in Tokyo, they don’t accept change under 1,000 yens.
I would have brought it to my combini, had they had any meaningful cause to use it for (used to be a 1-yen box to help clean Mount Fuji). Hadn’t seen one recently…
Jonathan: First time I ever hear of these. Must say I am not completely taken by their look, but why not… Problem would have been the same though: I didn’t really wanna be carrying 3 kilos of coins wherever I went.
Tracey:
Ahem… Well, now that you mention it… 😀
OK. I kinda left them behind in a small bag. I would have brought them to the bank (where I was told they’ll count it and change it for you), but I left way to early too be able to do that. Since I realized there were in fact a good share of 5 and 10 yen coins, the whole thing might definitely buy you a nice dinner, I reckon.
Of course, if you don’t wanna bother, just take the bag and give it to the first person you see who seems like they may need it (I’ll leave you judge of that). Sorry for littering your house like that 😉
Well – apart from the huge number of foreign coins (!!!!) that broke the counting machine 5 times, the money has been converted into folding stuff. It totalled
Spend them at the airport on your way out. Every last ichi-en of them. Buy expensive chocolates and a good bottle of sake. Sayonara!
Kristen:
Sounds like a great idea… except my problem isn’t really how to spend that money, but rather what to do with these coins. I sure as hell won’t be going to the airport tomorrow with a couple kilos in coins on top of my already way overweight luggage… 😉
As for even trying to spend them in a store: I’d probably still be here next week counting the coins…
Throw them into a fountain and make a bunch of wiches.
Find a random hobo or buddhist beggar and give them?
What did you end up doing with it all? *hoping that it is not in little piles all around my place…*
You could attempt to make one (or perhaps a few) nifty Chinese Daoist coin swords:
http://images.google.com/images?q=coin%20sword
Not too sure if the Japanese have their own variant?
Neuro:
I’d probably be hauled off for littering.
Michel:
Hobos? What hobos? assuming you can find some homeless people in Tokyo, they don’t accept change under 1,000 yens.
I would have brought it to my combini, had they had any meaningful cause to use it for (used to be a 1-yen box to help clean Mount Fuji). Hadn’t seen one recently…
Jonathan: First time I ever hear of these. Must say I am not completely taken by their look, but why not… Problem would have been the same though: I didn’t really wanna be carrying 3 kilos of coins wherever I went.
Tracey:
Ahem… Well, now that you mention it… 😀
OK. I kinda left them behind in a small bag. I would have brought them to the bank (where I was told they’ll count it and change it for you), but I left way to early too be able to do that. Since I realized there were in fact a good share of 5 and 10 yen coins, the whole thing might definitely buy you a nice dinner, I reckon.
Of course, if you don’t wanna bother, just take the bag and give it to the first person you see who seems like they may need it (I’ll leave you judge of that). Sorry for littering your house like that 😉
Well – apart from the huge number of foreign coins (!!!!) that broke the counting machine 5 times, the money has been converted into folding stuff. It totalled