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October 29th, 2011 at 03:27 am

Over the course of 28 months (2 yrs + 4 months) I've found $166.03.

Two weeks ago I bought a Kindle for $150 (including tax), loaded it with 1 $9.99 book, and bought another during the daily deal for $1.99. Sweet, no?

I bought a case for it for $15, which puts me over the top, but if anybody laughs at me for picking up pennies ...

Well, I bought my Kindle with found money.

And I really needed the Kindle tonight during the commute. It took forever - downtown traffic was astonishing ugly - and a main intersection in my neighborhood is closed this weekend (and will be next weekend) so it can be fixed in time for next road season's cone chess on 85th.

Posted in The Neighborhood, Dirty money | 8 Comments »

8 Responses to “money is fungible”

  1. Looking Forward Says:
    October 29th, 2011 at 04:23 am 1319862226
    1319862226

    Awesome! I love found money too; it totally adds up.

  2. littlegopher Says:
    October 29th, 2011 at 12:39 pm 1319891996
    1319891996

    This is fantastic! Be sure to periodically check out Kindle's free book offerings.

  3. creditcardfree Says:
    October 29th, 2011 at 01:46 pm 1319895998
    1319895998

    I love it!! Enjoy your Kindle.

  4. rob62521 Says:
    October 29th, 2011 at 02:38 pm 1319899134
    1319899134

    Way to go...I like your idea of using found money. I was also going to suggested looking out the free books on Kindle and see if your library has e books you can download.

  5. MonkeyMama Says:
    October 29th, 2011 at 04:36 pm 1319906189
    1319906189

    Awesome!

    We will have bought 4 kindles with credit card rewards (found money of other sorts - over the course of 2 years). Big Grin (We are giving 2 away for Christmas - the 4th will the the Fire).

  6. baselle Says:
    October 30th, 2011 at 01:19 am 1319937541
    1319937541

    Oh yes, I've tapped Gutenberg for public domain free books, and the Seattle Library also has a kindle section.

  7. LuckyRobin Says:
    October 30th, 2011 at 02:07 am 1319940432
    1319940432

    Well, I haven't found nearly as much money as you have, but I've found somewhere around $50 in the last year or so (found a $20 and a $5 and a wad of ones as well as various coins). Usually it's just a penny here or a penny there. But I think it's awesome that you've been able to buy a Kindle with money other Seattle folks have carelessly lost.

  8. frugaltexan75 Says:
    October 30th, 2011 at 02:55 am 1319943345
    1319943345

    Make sure to also take advantage of Pixel of Ink. They have a website, as well as FB. There are constantly free Kindle books and/or bargains. I have close to 200 books from Amazon on my iPhone Kindle app - all but a few were free. Big Grin

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