So I decided to collect all the change in my house.

Giblet

One day, upon noticing lots of loose change in my drawers and various boxes, I decided to get a bundle of bank cash bags and set about filling them.
I got 146 euro with nothing above 20c. Most of the coins where 1c.
Oh man, I'm so happy now Only took 40 mins with some people helping (scroungers no doubt). I had to wash the stains of the peasants off my hands when I was done, jesus money stinks!
Should try it :v:

D

Nah I'm one of those people who uses their change up as I go along.

Loomis

I always have a load of coins.I have a small container that I throw them into.I've taken 20euro out of it in 20cent coins in the last two days.And there's still a load of coins in it.
Such a pain in the arse.They brought out too many different coins with the change over

Hobbes

I used to throw my loose change into one of those large water jugs. When it came to emptying it I had over 1,500 cash.

Tar.Aldarion

I've collected in afew times, it's always a couple of hundred. Now at home, well old home, we have a huge vodka bottle to put change into.

LegacyUser

Hobbes wrote:

I used to throw my loose change into one of those large water jugs. When it came to emptying it I had over 1,500 cash.

Any relation to Eddie?

"We have to Close the door on Spending...... more importantly, I'm from Cork!!!":D

Sleepy

Yep another user of the large Vodka bottle here. Cash it in every 2 months or so when I'm broke, it's usually good for a hundred euro when you're stuck...

Tar.Aldarion

sillysausage wrote:

Any relation to Eddie?

"We have to Close the door on Spending...... more importantly, I'm from Cork!!!":D

I should hope he is more like thomas hobbes!
Edit: other people do the vodka bottle dealy, high five.

IceHawk

Yeah, I kept all my change in a box last year. Nothing larger than 50c. Just before Christmas I emptied it and counted it out. There was something like 170 euro in there. Sorted out my presents for a few people without actually really spending. It's shocking how much mounts up over a fairly short time.

On the other hand, the woman at the bank was not amused when I arrived in with about 30 of the little plastic bags full of change!

xzanti

When I met the bf he was collecting his shrapnel in a coke bottle (I was a student so did not partake in the excersise) anyhoo the bottle finally filled up to the rim and we counted out and bagged it a couple of months ago and there was 90 quid... Not bad for a load of coppers...

We brought it to the bank and swoped it for notes and he donated it to charity... Bless him

Closing Doors

Have recently started doing this...yet to cash it in or count it out though!

gaf1983

This time last year I counted mine, I use the upside-down lid of a 100-blank CD spindle, came up with 90 snots, enough to pay for a weekend away last April.

Setun

Hobbes wrote:

I used to throw my loose change into one of those large water jugs. When it came to emptying it I had over 1,500 cash.

Whoah! :eek:

All that money really adds up, eh?

thelordofcheese

i've got an empty plastic jam tub full of coppers, i wonder how much is in it..

DonkeyStyle \o/

I love cashing in the change-jar... it's like finding a fifty down the back of the sofa

Dave!

yeeshk, some good success stories here! :eek:

elmyra

Nothing like the change jar! I paid my car tax out of it this year, go coppers!

skye

I too partake of this one - throw them into one of those big wine bottles...It usually totes up to the 100s - which is nice!!

Endurance Man

I did the exact same thing today, had enough to get pizza for lunch .

Sparky

the shoebox of money beside my tv, found 600 in it last year, but it was old pounds
but i got 200 euros out of it, id just empty the back pocket of my work clothes into the box, so there was €2 coins and all in there

NoDayBut2Day

It's surprising to see how much loose change actually adds up. Kinda nice... hehe.

scuba steve

hmmm, ive got a couple jars around the house filled with coppers and watnot, and i need money for Car-Tax . . . . . hmmmm . . . . . . must go look and count! Thanks for the idea!!

Capt'n Midnight

Sparky-s wrote:

the shoebox of money beside my tv, found 600 in it last year, but it was old pounds
but i got 200 euros out of it, id just empty the back pocket of my work clothes into the box, so there was €2 coins and all in there

Thought the central bank still gave you euros for them.

ArthurDent

Sparky-s wrote:

the shoebox of money beside my tv, found 600 in it last year, but it was old pounds
but i got 200 euros out of it, id just empty the back pocket of my work clothes into the box, so there was €2 coins and all in there

Old pounds , even old coins still legal tender. However you do have to bring to Central Bank to exchange them.

Certainly worth cashing in £600...

vorbis

Hope you haven't thrown them out

Tobias Greeshman

Collected all the coins in my old house before I moved out remember getting fairly pissed with the gf on the money, think it was €100 or something close to that. Though the change doesn't seem to be accumulating as much since then.

Lady_Macbeth

i specifically don't spend 20c or less, unless I have no choice, of course! I save all my 0< x < 20c coins and make lodgements; as a student it's a promising (and only feasible) way of putting away money regularly. Plus, when I'm looking for a mortgage in a few years, I can remind the bank of how much of a great 'regular saver' i was (it's only an old drinking chocolate tin so it's not huge - doesn't really collect more than €50-€60 before it's full)

Going back to the changeover our house amassed the great sum of nearly £300 in coppers and the like. And that's when pounds were pounds

RoundyMooney

Going on past experience (this is the third time my money receptacle is nearly full-its a victorian water jug thingy that sits on the breakfast bar in the kitchen-'tis huge), I reckon I have about 1500 yoyos to cash in, just have to enlist some of the neighbours kids to count and bag it for a modest fee

Still, I'll find something to spend it on I'm sure.

Nothing smaller than 20 cent bits... for any prospective hoarders out there, carry some loose in your pockets to round off when getting change at the shops if need be, easier than it sounds...

Karl Hungus

I have a tin I keep coppers in. Once it's full, I usually count it up and cash it in somewhere. The local shop is usually happy to take it. It rarely amounts to anything more than about €20 or so.

Sarsfield

I have €280 all bagged up and ready to go to the bank and probably about the same still to count.

I bought a coin counter in Dunnes for €20 at christmas to ease the burden of measuring my wealth.

skywalker_208

€150 in mine a couple of weeks ago when i counted it... just enough to pay for the GOD DAMN TV license...

0utshined

I decided to collect all the change in my house, So ?!!?!



I too suffer from drinkers pocket though less so nowadays. I used to have a couple of empty pint glasses I'd chuck any change less than 20p\c into. It was great sorting them out every year and getting an extra €150 or so.

Nowadays I tend to use the change in my wallet when I can but I've done a clean up of my place over the past week and turned up about €300 spread across pounds, punts, euro, CZK and dollars just like the old days. Result!

@skywalker_208,
Do without one dude, I did without a tv for about two years and you really don't miss it. I've got one back (and paid the licence) recently just to play some consoles, I still haven't watched it.

skywalker_208

dont watch it much myself.. its more for the misses really...

0utshined

Say no more mate, I understand.


****Edit: Clicked your sig, thanks for the new Wallpaper. Emperor ftw!

Hal1

Hey, I got lots of change to count up some in money bags that I started to count but then left them alone and some in drawers waiting to be counted, but I have a **** load of dublin bus recipts! there must be over a €100 in bus tickets. I gotta sort that out and see what I got

Lady_Macbeth

and the government wonders why so many coins have gone out of circulation since 2002.....we really are a hoarding nation....

fletch

Mr. Anderson wrote:

Such a pain in the arse.They brought out too many different coins with the change over

They introduced one new coin...the €2....

johnnyrotten

Wait till the €5 coin comes out!!!!

johnnyrotten

Hobbes wrote:

I used to throw my loose change into one of those large water jugs. When it came to emptying it I had over 1,500 cash.

Must be a H U G E Jug. I like huge JUGS!;)

Giblet

0utshined wrote:

I decided to collect all the change in my house, So ?!!?!

Oh you crazy goon!

Scraggs

johnnyrotten wrote:

Wait till the €5 coin comes out!!!!

is that true? coz that would be deadly....

herobear

i got a euro coin sorting machine for chrimbo
tis bloody great, have yet to cash anything in yet.....

i also found 22 euro in 2 euro coins this morning,no wonder my trousers were so bloody heavy!

NoDayBut2Day

vorbis wrote:

Hope you haven't thrown them out

That wouldn't be good.. haha. Nobody wants to throw away money.. :eek:

robinph

And this is why when the euro central bank was distributing the coins before the Euro changeover that Ireland had to request about twice the number of coins than any other country did based on the size of the population.

Sparky

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Thought the central bank still gave you euros for them.

oh really, didnt know now, and some of the people ive told never said i could either, but im going to keep the a 5, 10, 20, and 50 note as souvenirs, same as the 50 and pound coin, ill bring the rest in and get it exchanged.
Cheers lads

dundalk cailin

good idea to help me save, cheers