DIY - Pay yourself to clean your own house

It's one of those weekends where your Mum decides to start cleaning the house.
Naturally she expects everyone to do the same.


Oh by the way, yes I am in my early 20s and I do live at home, but if you read the page about myself then you may get the jist of why I'm here right now.

So my brother and I were sorting out the attic, looking through the trash we brought over from when we first moved to this house.
There were toys that were played with, toys that were neglected, toys missing limbs, cars missing wheels, you get the idea.
Then my brother found this tin can full of old coins.
Being the money hungry guy that I am, I jumped at it and started counting it all.
There were coins from places all over the world;

• India
• Hong Kong
• UK
• USA
• Japan
• China
• Australia
• New Zealand
• and some miscellaneous tokens from game centres of old (TILT)

Now there were a lot of coins there, a lot of dirty ones too. Oh and notes, there were some notes too.
After sorting them all I decided to start looking up their value in Australian Dollars ('cause I'm from Australia).
I use a great site to convert my money, it's sufficient if you want the current rate without too many ads flying in your face and don't understand graphs and stuff. Here's the link:
http://au.finance.yahoo.com/currency

Money as far as the eye can see

Anyway after an efficient sorting and counting system implemented, I calculated it all to equate to around $120 Australian. That's a whopping $107 US!

Okay, I know it's not the jackpot of the century, but it feels as though I was duly paid for the work I had done around the house. (Yeah I took the money, brother didn't seem to mind, I will put it to good investment use)
$120 for a day's worth of work.

Some Japanese and Australian coins

Yeah I know, it was already money around the house so it doesn't really have the same effect as earning it. But remember, money isn't worth much until the moment you decide to use it.
So I'm happy.

Oh and what did my brother do while I was doing his accounting?
He found some old toy, all parts accounted for, which if bought brand new would be worth $160.
I guess he got paid too.