Author: Christine

When Mike was moving in to the house in May, Jason’s project was to pick up all the coins he could find in Mike’s apartment and put them in a box. We ended up moving a large, heavy box of coins. The box was placed in the dining room and just left there. Since May.

I’m clearing out the dining room (so I have a crafty area), and I decided last night to finally sort out the box of coins. Jason and I got out a bunch of large plastic bowls and started sorting away. We have a HUGE bowl now of American coins, and about £ 30 of British coins, and maybe 20 Euros. (Yeah, money that would have been handy back in June, huh? Good thing Emily is going overseas soon.)

Then we got a coin sorter and coin rolls, and we started rolling the money. We’re rich! We’re rich! Ok, not really. But there is a heck of lot of money in there.

But before I started rolling all the quarters, I realized that there are people out there that have been looking for the state quarters from the Denver mint. (You know, the ones with the “D” on the front.) We’ve got them here! We probably have all of them, and many are in really good shape. So if you need quarters, they are yours – for the price of a quarter and a stamp to mail them off with. Let me know!

I’ll be rolling them all by Tuesday and taking them to the bank, so hurry and let me know!

Ah, the smell of autumn. Leaves falling, school back in session, a crisp cool breeze in the air… Wait, who am I kidding? It isn’t cool here at all, unless you consider 90 degrees cool. Breeze? I wish. Maybe if you stand in front of a fan. But it is true – school is back in session, and you know what that means?

Fundraisers! (I don’t have co-workers to show the catalog to, so I might as well take it to the blog!)

Jason’s school is having their annual fundraiser, and they have some pretty nice stuff in the catalog. If you would like to check it out and place an order to help his school, you can do so online at Cherrydale.com. You will need his information for him to get credit – when you create your account, please enter school code 144147 (Willow Wood Junior High in Tomball, Texas), and fill in the student’s name and grade: Jason Selleck, grade 7. The fundraiser ends on September 7th (in order for him to get credit for the sales.)

If you order, could you send me the order number so I can verify that they give him credit? And whether you order something or not, thank you *so much* for taking the time to check it out! You guys ROCK!

This concludes the annual fundraiser push. Thank you for participating.

I guess it would have been handy if I had shared the rest of the details, huh? The study I did today was for Plaza Research. They have offices in Houston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale. If you live in one of those areas, you can sign up for their e-mail list and they will let you know when studies are available in your area. From there, you call in and qualify for the study. If you’re picked, they will book a time for you to come in, and you too can give companies opinions.

The study today was for one of the major pizza chains. It turned out that we didn’t get to taste the pizza; we got to give them feedback on previous ad campaigns and upcoming products and ad campaigns. It was torture having to look at pizzas for 2 hours and not being allowed to eat it! However, they gave us a $5 gift card and they paid us $75, not $60 – so I ordered pizza for dinner tonight!

2 hours, $75 … pretty good if you ask me! Plus it was cool to have the opportunity to share feedback on something that could end up being a nationwide ad campaign. Even if I had to buy my own pizza in the end…