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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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I did that once. All my change every day for probably 15-20 years. Unfortunately, unlike the bottle above, mine was 1950's glass I got at a yard sale. When I began, I lived in a one story home. When I moved, it was maybe only 10% of capacity, and I put it in my upstairs closet, not really thinking I'd ever fill it. FF nearly two decades, all my kids have left home, so it's up to my wife and I to deal with it. It was far to heavy for me to lift, and I didn't think for a second the glass was strong enough to hold the contents.
My plan was to roll it on its side to the middle of the bedroom, and then up a ramp I built so it would end up about 2' above the floor. I took a 5 gallon paint bucket, turned it upside-down and cut a hole in the bottom (which was now the top) so I could tip the glass bottle onto/into the upended bucket. All was proceeding well, until it wasn't. Some imperceptible flaw, or some imperceptible bump on the ramp caused the whole bottle to fail at right about the top of the ramp. 60 year old glass shards (no safety glass here) went everywhere, and while no one was hurt, it took me days to pick every bit of glass from the 5' diameter pool of change on my floor. Live and learn I suppose...
Since my kids had always scrambled when I got home from work to get my change and drop it in the jar, I had them each write down there guess as to the value of the contents. The winner got a big gift card to Amazon. The actual amount was $2,112.12. Those 6 plastic bags were REALLY heavy - I actually thought it'd be worth a bit more.