Hacking Coinstar: If you’re frugal and fiscally savvy, you would never dream of paying 9 percent to a Coinstar machine to count your change when you can simply spend a few hours rolling it yourself.

But let’s face it — you’re lazy and you want your cash now.

AntiYawn says you can have your change and not count it too if you use this Coinstar hack (which is certainly illegal and not endorsed by Dave Copeland):

“This is really quite simple. Follow the directions as usual, but when it asks how you would like your money, make sure to pick the iTunes gift card. After it counts all of your change, the machine will ask you how much of your money you want as a gift card and how much you want as cash. Go ahead and set it all to gift card. Now, before proceeding, you need to find a way to unplug the phone jack from the back of the machine. I’m lucky because the wall phone jack for my local CoinStar is at about shoulder height right next to the machine.

“Now the poor machine is in quite a pickle. It already has all of your change, and it can’t give that back to you. It can’t give you an iTunes card either. It could give you cash, but it’s not going to lay that 9% fee on because you obviously didn’t agree to that when you put your change in the machine. What can it do? Give you cash for FREE. After a few minutes of trying, it will simply give up and just give you a slip which can be redeemed for cash at the store customer service counter.”