All About Coin Sorters

The office organizer that pays for itself.

Once upon a time, spare change was counted by hand. A family would gather round their buckets and bowls of loose change, dump it all into a pile, and hold a neighborhood coin counting bee to guarantee all those pennies would be sorted before sunset. OK, so it wasn't quite like that, but in twenty years you'll be able to tell your grandchildren it was. They won't know any better, because they'll have grown up using electronic coin sorters. Let's learn all about coin sorters.

Taking a cut

Electronic and digital coin sorters have been popping up in public over the last few years. Grocery stores are a common location for coin sorter machines, but if you've used one before, you know their dark secret: they want a piece of the action. Third-party automatic coin sorters charge as much as 15% for counting your coins. If you cash in one hundred dollars worth of change just two times a year, you've lost as much in fees as it would cost you to buy your own coin sorter.

Today's home coin sorters are nothing like coin sorters of the past. Maybe as a child you had a wood coin sorter in your bedroom that you filled every day. Of course when it was full, you'd have to spill it out on the floor, and spend hours sorting pennies from nickels, getting the rolls set just right in the coin wrappers, and then sealing the coin wrappers without spilling the change.

Electronic coin sorters

Counting change is no longer a chore if you own an electronic coin sorter. A typical digital coin sorter, for example, runs on 2 AAA batteries or an included AC adapter. Drop up to fifty coins at a time into the hopper and watch the coins as they're electronically sorted into clear tubes that you've already preset with paper coin wrappers. As your power wrapper coin sorter runs, it also keeps a running dollar total on a front LCD display. After just one or two loads, your coin sorter machine will have paid for itself.

Count room

Another benefit of digital coin sorters is how nicely they cut down on home office clutter. Loose change seems to end up everywhere: pockets, desks, drawers, ashtrays, even the tops of filing cabinets, bookshelves, and end tables. Yet when it comes time to feed a parking meter, chances are you won't be able to find any quarters.

Electronic coin sorters can work like spare change banks too. A coin sorter bank will keep your desk clean and give you a guaranteed place to check for extra dimes when a trip downtown is necessary.

Office pool

Coin sorters are a great choice for a home or corporate office. A digital coin sorter will help you stay on budget when you purchase home stationery supplies. In the corporate workplace, a coin counter sorter could function as an office pool for loose change. The extra money could then be used for buying office surprises like Friday afternoon snacks or given to a different charity every month.

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