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The original was posted on /r/lifeprotips by /u/ijustlikeelectronics on 2025-07-11 21:40:58+00:00.
If you shop at Walmart and have a bunch of coins lying around, don’t waste money on Coinstar’s ~12% fee. Instead, go to the self-checkout lane.
At most Walmart locations, you can flip up the coin chute lid on the self-checkout machine and dump coins straight in. The machine will count your coins and apply them to your total like cash.
Bonus: If you insert more coins than needed for your purchase, the machine gives you the remaining balance in bills, not more coins.
This makes it a sneaky-efficient way to convert coins to paper money for free while buying things you already need.