July 25, 2012
Wow, it took until July 25 to talk about my quarter collecting! When the mint came out with the new States quarters I collected a set for Zach and a set for Seth. When they finished with all 50 states, the mint did a series of U.S. Territories plus Washington D.C. I'm still working on those, and
now they are releasing "America The Beautiful" quarters with designs from National Parks and Monuments.
Today I picked up a Yellowstone quarter at Subway :)
My original plan was to make a States scrapbook for each boy--one page per state we visited, with photos of them and then include the quarter on the page. I have the books, and have filled in a few pages, but we didn't visit as many states as I wanted. Also, having the actual quarters on the pages makes them very heavy (not to mention Creative Memories stopped making the perfectly-sized transparent envelopes I envisioned at the beginning. I switched to using two triangle-shaped photo corner protectors, but the quarter isn't as visible through that plastic). I recently decided I'd just take photos of the quarters and include those instead of the real quarters.
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