Got a jar of coins at home? Tired of wrapping and rolling your coins? The Coinstar Network consists of self-service coin counting machines located at the front entrances of leading supermarkets nationwide. The Coinstar machines count shoppers' accumulated coins and dispense a voucher that can be exchanged in the store for cash or groceries.

Coinstar machines count up to 600 coins per minute. To put that in perspective, using a Coinstar machine, one can count 4,800 pennies, enough to cover a good portion of a weekly shopping trip, in eight minutes!

Coinstar has lots of stories about people who have turned idle coins into readily spendable cash, but the best of all is a man in Southern California who walked into a supermarket and proceeded to pour $8,105 dollars worth of coins into a Coinstar Machine! At the average mix of coin denominations, it would have taken him 171 HOURS to count those coins by hand! Working eight hours a day, seven days a week, that would take over 3 WEEKS!