30 tips and hacks to never paying full price on Amazon again

5. Bring your spare change to a Coinstar for an Amazon gift card

Do you have a piggy bank you’re just dying to break open? If not, you might want to start digging into those couch cushions. It turns out that you can convert all of that spare loose change straight into credit you can use on Amazon. Sure, you can just take it to the bank and put it in your account to buy something with, but this cuts out the middle man.

The way this process works is simple. Gather up all of that loose change you can find. Maybe you’re one of those people that keeps those three foot tall clear bottles full of nothing but change. In any case, no matter how many coins you’ve got, you want to pack them all up and head to where an official Coinstar machine is. They are often found in various grocery stores or banks. To find out where the closest one to you is, you can do so on Coinstar’s website.

The true benefit here is that if you get an Amazon gift card, you won’t have to pay any Coinstar fees. Otherwise, if you choose to cash out to get some actual money instead, you will have to pay a fee. Rather than letting Coinstar take a big chunk of that change for themselves, it can all go straight back to you in the form of Amazon credit. So why not turn all of that excess coinage into something useful and cash it all in.

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