{"id":44,"date":"2005-06-05T20:38:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T20:17:54","slug":"viva-the-safeway-coinmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/viva-the-safeway-coinmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva the Safeway CoinMaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been accumulating coins for a fair old while (4 years). And since we&#8217;re selling everything I thought now might be a good time to get rid of them once and for all.<br \/>\nI went through it to make sure I&#8217;d taken out the pound coins, Romanian skiing proficiency badges, pennies with the Golden Gate bridge squeezed onto them and plectrums and spread &#8216;em all out on the table&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyroad, there&#8217;s this machine round the corner in Safeway called the Coinmaster. You dump your coins in it and it sorts them and gives you a total (minus 8% for the service). It&#8217;s one of the best machines I&#8217;ve ever played with, combining the thrill of free money, with fruit machine payouts and penny fountain things at seaside arcades. Little by little the total rises as you push more coins into its mechanical guts. Things whirr and whine and lights flash around. I wish I could do it again&#8230;Here&#8217;s a blurry picture of the machine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/safeway-coinmaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/safeway-coinmaster-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"safeway coinmaster\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/safeway-coinmaster-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/safeway-coinmaster-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/g_w_y_n\/17639792\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"> link to the picture of the receipt I got with the exact amount.<\/a> It&#8217;s all going towards an ultra light laptop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/cash-money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/cash-money-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cash money\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/cash-money-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/06\/cash-money-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been accumulating coins for a fair old while (4 years). 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