I opened the little plastic tin on the counter where we kept twist ties and rubber bands.

Inside were eight flat paper coin tubes left over from a school fundraiser two years back.

“Eight of them,” I said.

I checked my balance on my phone again.

The red line at the top of the screen still showed forty-two dollars left in checking.

I called Oak Creek Hardware on speaker.

The clerk told me coin wrappers came fifty to a pack, four dollars a box.

I worked it out on the yellow pad.