Coins add up in jars, piggy banks

Facts about loose change, from Coinstar:

-- Eighty percent of American adults save their loose change rather than spend it on a day-to-day basis.

-- Of the American adults who save their change, 38 percent store it in a glass or plastic jar. Thirteen percent use a piggy bank.

-- One pound of dimes has the same value as one pound of quarters.

-- Eighty percent of Americans will still stop to pick up a penny on the street.

-- Thirteen percent of Americans will not pick up a penny that is heads-down because it is considered unlucky.

-- The life span of a coin is approximately 30 years.

-- More than half (58 percent) of Americans own a piggy bank.

-- It is estimated that there is more than $10.5 billion in coins sitting idle in people's homes in the United States. On average, that is about $99 per household.

-- The average person tosses $5.50 in change into their "container" each week.

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