I'm not OneRepublic, I will not be counting stars ...

I won't be counting dollars either. Instead it'll be euros, well, cents to be exact.

Since I moved to Germany in 2017, I've been collecting the "red money" meaning 1,2, and 5 cents coins. 

They're kinda annoying to be honest and over the years I have tried to get rid of them as well but they just keep coming back and I usually store them in random containers like old chewing gum bottles, or purses, or maybe one of the 100 boxes I buy from Flying Tiger whenever there's a sale.

Anyway, another one of my impulsive buys from Flying Tiger recently has been this piggy bank. And it's the cutest thing ever.

I filled it with all my red money.

It stayed there for maybe 3 weeks until 2 days ago when my friend and I, rained in and bored out of our minds decided to count the coins.

Sorted them out. Separated the ones, twos, and fives which weren't many. I actually use fives usually.

Now, the strategy I took was to just count them one by one but turns out that was tiresome and kinda dumb so we went with my friend's way of stacking them and then just adding them up in the end.

So what did I earn in the past 4.5 years?

137 one cent coins.

122 two cents coins (244 cents total)

and 19 five cents coins (95 cents)

making the grand total 4 euros and 76 cents. Just enough to pay for my next Iced Caramel Latte.

Cheers!