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Loose Change = New Truck
Man pays for new pickup truck using $25,000 in loose change
FRANKFORT, Ind. - Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and dollar coins really paid off.
Brant, 70, used more than $25,000 in change to help buy a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck Friday — 13 years after buying another truck with spare change.
"(The old truck) didn't have four-wheel drive, and living in the country, I figured I better get a new one to help get me through the snow," he said.
Brant said he was raised to be thrifty. His father always paid in cash and saved up loose change to take vacations.
Brant has been storing his change for years, and estimated he had about $26,000 in coins for Friday's purchase. In 1994, he bought a Dodge pickup and a Dodge Neon using about $36,000 in quarters.
"As long as you don't put your hands back in the till, it really adds up," he said.
Brant stored his change in coffee cans, water jugs and piggy banks over the years, and was escorted by sheriff's deputies as he brought the rolled coins to the dealership.
A Mike Raisor Chrysler Dodge and Jeep employee who sold Brant the truck said the dealership called in an armored car to count and handle the coins.
"No bank wants to take them," Keith Gephart said.
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I just need to keep my daughter (may be my wife?) out of my jar, I never get change outa my jar. I always throw all of my loose change, even some dollar bills every now and then in my jar every day!, but somehow all the quarters and dollars disappear! When I was singe the jar was overflowing and I would count it up sometimes over several hundred dollars, but since i've been married it ain't never reached the halfway point!......I think I need to hide the jar, or just keep pennies in this one and all the others in a locked or hidden container!
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