So a lot of folks here build up a mountain of loose change accumulated from their daily AP hustles just like I do. In an earlier post I had mentioned one fee-free way of getting rid of it was to go to Walmart early in the morning (or whenever it is pretty empty) and just put your mountain of change into one of the automatic kiosks to buy your groceries (or Safeway,Raley's etc.). Another tack is to note that Coinstar machines will not charge you a fee if you buy a gift card. So what I do is just use the change to purchase an Amazon gift card fee-free from a Coinstar kiosk. Once you have your gift card (in the form of a receipt with a gift card number on it), you can purchase whatever the Amazon.com site has. I like Panda Express, so I just by Panda Express gift cards with my Amazon gift cards (unless I need to go shopping).

Cheers, tp.