If you've been thinking about turning your spare change into holiday cash, Coinstar is offering a generous deal right now.
If you don't mind substituting the cash for a gift card, you can make a 25 percent profit by pouring those extra pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters into a Coinstar machine.
That's a pretty nice way to stretch your holiday budget but, of course, there's fine print to the deal, which runs through Dec. 9.
Here's are the details:



Not only are they super cute, they're pretty cheap as well, especially if you can somehow get a few more uses out of them (siblings?). Pick from a bumble bee, a chicken, a dragon or my personal fave, the monkey. There are 11 different styles in all.