Oyin Adedoyin
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first heard Mar 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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And that is one of the things that financial advisors really advise against, because if you aren't looking at your bills, then there's no way you're keeping track of how much you even owe.
Another recommendation is to budget, of course, a classic.
Make automatic payments to your credit card so you don't have to think about it too much.
And also, don't let your debt keep you from saving.
It's important to try to do both when you can.
WSJ Your Money Briefing · Up to $68 Million in Coins Winds Up in the Trash Every Year · 19 Apr 2024
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People don't have as much of an opportunity to spend them as they did in the past.
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Mobile payments and credit cards have really made it difficult to spend your coins somewhere like the bus or a laundromat or a toll booth or even a parking meter.
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All of those things now take credit or debit or a tap from your phone, and that leaves coins pretty useless.
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Yeah, I went to this waste management facility in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, which is just outside of New Jersey, to see their coin collection operation.
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They're separating coins from everyday trash.
It's pretty loud in here.
It's a huge facility, and so four acres of that land is dedicated to just extracting coins from the trash.
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They extract anywhere between $500,000 to $1 million worth of coins a year.
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You know, once they sort them and clean them and check to make sure they're still viable, they send them to a third-party processor who counts them, gives them the money, and then distributes the actual physical coins back into the banking system through local banks.
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Well, Reworld, the waste management facility that I visited, estimates that Americans throw away up to $68 million worth of coins each year.
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Yes, that is the high scale.
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Exactly.
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That's a lot of cash.
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People aren't just chucking their coins in the garbage.
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These are coins that are left in between your couch cushions.
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