The common mans idea about "Change"

We always hear about "Change". It seems like HG TV makes a living off of change. Change your look, change your interior design. Obama keeps telling us it is time for a change. Change the way you eat, change the way you live, change you way of thinking. What about the noun "Change"...you know those little things we dump in the bottom of drawers and cup holders. Those things that you to pay for anything over a dollar?
Courtesy of Discovery magazine:

About $600 worth of coins pass through the hands of a typical American each year.

More than $10 billion in coins is sitting around in drawers, cans, bottles, and bins in American homes. About 80 percent of adults say they save loose change rather than try to spend it.

My mother told me a story of when she was in school, the kids brought pennies to school all year to help bring the USS Alabama battleship to Mobile. When I was in school we always had the annual Iron Bowl "change Challenge". I remember the school mad a couple hundred dollars every time. We also know that the March of Dimes was started with school kids bringing dimes to school for the charity. So this got me thinking. Now I have already posted my idea of big Universities like Auburn or Alabama charging a $1 charge for every ticket sold during the season. This would generate roughly $516,000 at Auburn in one single football season. Imagine what could be done with that money!

I wonder how much of that 10 billion in change is right here in Mobile County. Isn't it a shame that we have portable school buildings and a need for air conditioning. Instead of raising property tax for the schools we could have yearly change drives and dump all that money into one of those fancy saving accounts. Lets see! If 60% of the residents contributed $2 in change that would be $480,000 a year. Call me crazy but that would buy a few air-conditioners and a few new school books.