Have you ever wondered how much money people put into vending machines everyday?  At a local shop here in my town, there is a vending machine in the front where the school kids can drop in a few coins and get a few snacks during their lunch break or after school.

As I watched a few of the kids pulling their snacks out of this vending machine, it dawned on me that whoever owned that machine was pulling in a small fortune every couple of weeks, as that machine runs out quick.  As I thought about it, I started to think of all the different vending machines out there and realized that vending machines were a killer way to bring in a few bucks.

Have you ever really thought about how much money you’ve spent in vending machines over the years?  Or those little game machines with the claws and stuffed animals?  Somebody out there is making a lot of money, and we’re all just handing it to them, one quarter at a time.