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Okay now I have this tzedaka box sitting in my living room and it's full of coins and crumpled bills. How do I give that to my favorite charity? Or any charity?

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I don't understand what's the question. You just take the coins and give them whoever you want. What do you mean how? – jutky Sep 7 '11 at 17:27
@jutky, suppose my favorite tzedaka doesn't accept coins, or it's not feasible to mail a bunch of coins. – Shalom Sep 8 '11 at 1:02

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I call Colel Chabad. They send someone to my door with a bag for me to pour all the money in. A few weeks later I get a receipt in the mail for my donation.

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If you buy lots of stuff from Amazon:

Take everything to coinstar and buy yourself an amazon gift card. Then write out an equal check.

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Mail a check for the amount, put the money somewhere in your home, and start replenishing the now-empty tz'daka box....

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If you're willing to count the coins yourself. But then what do you do with the coins, if you don't want to use them as coins? Take them to coinstar and lose a few percent; take them to coinstar and get an amazon gift card; other ideas? – Shalom Sep 17 '10 at 17:33
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See my answer: you start replenishing the box. – msh210♦ Oct 4 '10 at 15:28
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Take the coins to coinstar, and they'll count it and donate it all (no fee) to your choice of a handful of major charities. None of them are specifically Jewish charities, but that's okay.

Take the bills to the bank, and write a check correspondingly.

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Give it to your synagogue office and let them figure it out? How do they count the coins and bills? How do they get the bank to take it?

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you are supposed to answer the question, not make more questions – Avraham Sep 7 '11 at 14:15

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