And the Winner Is…..

If you take one large water jug filled with money, sort it into quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies, and bills….carry the heavy buckets one at a time to the change machine at the bank, find out your car is dead in the parking lot after one of the trips, help the mechanic at the gas station right next door push it into their lot, leave it overnight, pay $413 to pick it up, tally up the receipts, sort through the couple of hundred guesses made as to the total in the jug, and find a winner….you have a Monday morning blog post.  You also have some cash to reward the winner, give a little bit to charity, and help take your kids to Florida/Disney World one more time before they’re too old.

So, here’s how it went down.

$62 in one dollar bills, one $10 roll of quarters, $1228.16 in loose quarters…with 3 rogue nickels and one penny snuck in  (I counted by hand once because I was dying of curiosity and wasn’t that far off), $377.56 in nickels and dimes, and $86.00 in pennies.

Grand Total =  $1763.72

And…all I can say is THANK HEAVEN for Beverly!!!  Because, without her guess of $1,765.23, our very own GMG Contributor, Paul Morrison, would have been closest with his guess of $1,785.73 and it would have looked INCREDIBLY fishy since he already stated that he would “use the fifty bucks to purchase sirloin steaks for the GMG Spring Mug Up at Joey’s grill.”  🙂

So, the winner is Beverly.  She made her guess, only a mere $1.51 off from the actual total, on March 22nd at 7:33 pm.

I need her to comment to this post….I think using the same computer or device she used to make her original guess…so I can tell it is the same person.  (Super official, I know).   When commenting, please let me know which charity you would like your $50 check written to.  And I will happily give you your own $50 as well.  We can coordinate how to go about that when you comment.  Congratulations!

Thanks to everyone for playing!