Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

pocket change

  • 14-12-2008 6:29pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭


    Dont you hate it when you come home after a night or a weekend out and your pocket is full of change - and you just throw it onto your press and pick at it from time to time.

    I just counted out my change from the past while and i got €130.30 !
    Tagged:


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    True that.

    well, I keep coppers in a jar for the bank, I hate carrying them around cause they're so smelly.

    I keep the bronzes, cause they're handy for buying sweets in the shop:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    /holds out paper cup

    Spare change buddy?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 726 ✭✭✭abi2007


    nope that has never happened to me.. I'm usually praying the change in my bag at the end of the night will cover the cab fare.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    A friend of mine died in a change-related accident - he just kept storing it up year after year until one day he opened the wardrobe and was crushed by his stacks of 10c pieces.

    Thats some good change-management Samhail. Good way of spreading awareness of the dangers of change.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    Small change killed my father, and raped my mother.


  • Advertisement
  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Yup, I have one of those old 3 litre vodka bottles (pity it's empty). Kept all my change in it. My sister counted it up the other night for me and there's nearly €200 in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    have one of those 5L water bottles, put all change from 1c to 20c in it, have a smaller one for 50c, €1 and 2€, often take from this if need some change for the shops

    emptied them both a couple of months ago, about €250 between them, over €200 of which came from 5L bottle, usally wait till their 1/4 or 1/3 full, 2 or 3 times a year, takes a couple of hours to count them

    then often spend it all in one go, on one or two items


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    My kids empty my pockets so i never have any loose change. Wife grabs the paper money.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Small change killed my father, and raped my mother.

    Thats the first time someone has ever called me 'small change'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 kickupthehole


    abi2007 wrote: »
    nope that has never happened to me.. I'm usually praying the change in my bag at the end of the night will cover the cab fare.

    A complete scumbag taxidriver gave me a mouthful of abuse one time for daring to pay my 8 euo taxi fare in 50 cent coins. If I had of given him a 50 euro note no doubt he would of looked at me with a blank expression on his face and said "what do you want me to do with that?" ****ing prick.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭samhail


    should have counted out like 40 20c pieces for the taxi driver !


    ack i just found a roses round tin box half full off coppers, and there are 10c&20c !
    *tut*

    think its worth going to one of those places with a coins counter. m8 said that tesco will do it for like 5%


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    This only happens if you let it.

    Instead of blindly breaking notes every time you buy a drink, try and use some of your coins to pay. Waiting to be served is the ideal time to check out the contents of your wallet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭samhail


    my dad actually said the exact same thing to me.
    i answered him with that im just too lazy to be taking money out at a busy bar or a busy lunch menu and count out. hmmpf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    samhail wrote: »
    my dad actually said the exact same thing to me.
    i answered him with that im just too lazy to be taking money out at a busy bar or a busy lunch menu and count out. hmmpf.

    too lazy = fair enough

    but some people I know think it's anal and square to try and count out the exact change. Having a more relaxed 'just hand over a note' attitude seems to be cooler or more fashionable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    samhail wrote: »

    think its worth going to one of those places with a coins counter. m8 said that tesco will do it for like 5%

    used one once, most of the ones i have seen charge 9.5% +


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,454 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    too lazy = fair enough

    but some people I know think it's anal and square to try and count out the exact change. Having a more relaxed 'just hand over a note' attitude seems to be cooler or more fashionable.
    I onlt hand over notes as a principal because I have a jar beside my bed and any change i get during the day goes into it. I consider it a form of saving that I normally wouldn't do, so for me handing over change is a big no-no!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    I throw my change at poor people, whenever I pass through a commoners district.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for 2 pieces of lint and a button today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Q2002 wrote: »
    I onlt hand over notes as a principal because I have a jar beside my bed and any change i get during the day goes into it. I consider it a form of saving that I normally wouldn't do, so for me handing over change is a big no-no!

    when I worked as a bank cashier I hated people bringing in bags of coin so I had the opposite viewpoint. Always get rid of it and don't be one of those people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,454 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    when I worked as a bank cashier I hated people bringing in bags of coin so I had the opposite viewpoint. Always get rid of it and don't be one of those people.
    You might be right... I'll stop using my effective form of saving that I don't even notice just so that the bank tellers don't have to do their job.

    I actually give it ot my local shop and he is only too happy to take my change, even when, like last time, my haul was €560.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    Iv a bottle in my room and put my change into after nights out and stuff id get around 400euro out of it a years. Its handy out when funds are low, but pain counting it up and going to the bank.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭Shmuck


    I throw my change at poor people, whenever I pass through a commoners district.

    I threw out about a billion 1c, 2c and 5c coins today. Should of gave them to a homeless person, but I couldn't be bothered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭samhail


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    when I worked as a bank cashier I hated people bringing in bags of coin so I had the opposite viewpoint. Always get rid of it and don't be one of those people.

    dont banks have automatic counter machine - i probably spent about 20min counting out the 130euro ! and that box is probaby full of 2c pieces and 2 or 3 times the volume of coins ! :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    samhail wrote: »
    dont gnaks have automatic counter machine - i probably spent about 20min counting out the 130euro ! and that box is probaby full of 2c pieces and 2 or 3 times the volume of coins ! :(

    No. They have scales to weigh the coin.
    Full bags only [as outlined on the coin bags] and unmixed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭bluemachaveli


    When i was working in the local shop a couple of years ago nothing used to piss me off more than gob****es in on a Sunday morning with a pocket full of change.

    It wasn't the fact i had to count it while being hung over myself. But everyone of the bleedin idiots had the same line "Ha ha, you would know i was out last night" :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Q2002 wrote: »
    I onlt hand over notes as a principal because I have a jar beside my bed and any change i get during the day goes into it. I consider it a form of saving that I normally wouldn't do, so for me handing over change is a big no-no!

    same for me.
    i have a large vodka bottle and every day i make a point to put anything i have in my pockets less than 50c into the bottle.

    Makes a nice little savings scheme. someday ill bag it and come out of the bank with a nice few quid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    irish-stew wrote: »
    used one once, most of the ones i have seen charge 9.5% +

    The one in the Merrion Shopping centre is 9%

    Still handier then counting though :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Fad wrote: »
    The one in the Merrion Shopping centre is 9%

    Still handier then counting though :pac:

    take it thats in dublin some where

    ;)

    if you really dont want to count it yourself i'll charge you 8.9%


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Hardly ever have change or notes with me. Sometimes I don't even have $2.80 for the train. Need to run to a shop and get cash out.
    EFTPOS all the way. No cash handling, only pin numbers


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭sunnyside


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    when I worked as a bank cashier I hated people bringing in bags of coin so I had the opposite viewpoint. Always get rid of it and don't be one of those people.

    Why is it annoying? If people bring in full bags properly counted they can't be the most annoying customers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,730 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I counted mine last week, €295. It annoys the sh1t out of me that the 50c piece is bigger than the €1. Makes it very hard to quickly separate the coins required.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    seperating the 1 and 2c coins annoy the sh!te out of me

    :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Small change got rained on with his own .38
    And nobody flinched down by the arcade
    And marquess weren't weeping, they went stark-raving mad

    Love that song...

    Yeah, I keep a change jar. I emptied it the other week and bought my girlfriend's Christmas present with the innards, all 1c, 2c, 5c and 10c.


Advertisement