Saving change ?

Snowie

do you save your change ?
as in if you come home from a day at work or shoping do you have a bottle that you put your spare change ?

or do you spend it ?

MagicMarker

Save it.

az2wp0sye65487

I usually save it, but the bottle I keep it in only has 1, 2, 5, 10 & 20c coins in it, the 50c, €1 & €2 coins are spent. The O/H would spend 20 mins feeding coppers into a 'self scan' checkout in Tescos if I let her.

Hopefully by Christmas there will be enough in coppers to buy somethin decent!

Loomis

A bit from column A, a bit from column B.

Gillo

Save it, I generally clock up the guts of 100 euro in a year

Basq

Nah, I normally keep it for express checkouts at Tesco..

.. and to piss people off waiting in queue behind me as I slowly jam coins in slowly and individually.

Rabies

Spend it on bus fares.

NZ is almost as cash free society, so only ever have a few $ of change in my pocket.

up them Schteps

I keep the small coins, from 1c to 50c. I just cut the top off an old water bottle. But lately these small coins are used to pay tolls. It's very handy that way!

Wazdakka

Save it.. Ive got about €250 and about 15Kg of wine carafs filled with coins now

OldGoat

Save it...then growl angerly as family raid my coinbank for busfares.
My coinbank is a Dr Who TARDIS. :cool:

Dyr

My change would always spill outta me trunzers onto the floor so I used to chuck all the floor coinage into a big tesco shopping bag..I counted all the one and two euro coins in it there last week...800 yo yos worth. Result.:)

petes

I generally use it for buying stuff on my way to work. Usually an apple or two in the morning. I have gone into the shop beside me with a euro in 5c. They have no problem giving it to me so I have no problem giving it back.

Snowie

Bambi wrote: »

My change would always spill outta me trunzers onto the floor so I used to chuck all the floor coinage into a big tesco shopping bag..I counted all the one and two euro coins in it there last week...800 yo yos worth. Result.:)

Nice

same as then theres my bedroom floor bes side locker jeans, car...

Dardania

if i have a serious wad of pocket change i put it on my luas card

Quazzie

Rabies wrote: »

NZ is almost as cash free society, so only ever have a few $ of change in my pocket.

I was actually just talking with a mate of mine who is home from NZ and he was saying that he only realised now that he is home home how heavy money actually is. He says he never carries money with him in NZ as everything is cash free and works via a card.

IvyTheTerrible

I save it. (Otherwise too much change breaks my pretty wallet). I put into a shoe box and when every couple of months I bring it down to the bank. I paid for my Christmas presents with my change money one year!

Maddison

I put all my change in my sons piggy bank, Ive stopped putting anything bigger than 50c in though as they always get taken back out again:o Still and all those little coins add up!!

biko

I spend it

dysfunct

I save anything below a 50c.
Like a lot of people i have a empty 3 litre bottle of vodka and its coming along nicely.
Its probably 3/4 the way filled at the moment

Fozzie Bear

Save everything from E2 coins down to 1c coins. Prefer using paper money in a shop rather then counting pennies in Dunnes like so many women do. Grrrrrrr

Usually have a nice pot of money after 12 months. Had over E1500 last year in change and the year before was closer to 2 grand. Nice lump sum for the xmas.

mp22

save it now that my kids are grown up i get more money out of change bottle than i ever did strange:rolleyes:

ciagr297

anything 10c or below is thrown into a jar/mug/sandwich bag.

one of these days i'm going to walk into the bank with two sandwich bags of small change at say....1545 (banks close at 1600) and make some cashier's day

obviously a day when i am feeling particularly evil:D:D

Basq

Just for a change in pace..

I get everything from 50c downwards.. and I put them in a 8 foot-tall Nike boot in my room.

At the end of last year, I got a step ladder and looked in the boot. All the money had vanished and my cat was pregnant. Coincidence.. I think not!

People.. please.. ** THINK BEFORE SAVING **

Milky Moo

50c and below i save in those tins you get in the pound shop,because then you can't break into them,well not unless you have a can opener.

One full already should have that new netbook pretty soon.

Pop's Diner

I used to be very careful and save them in those specially designed bags the banks give you but I noticed everytime I handed a bag back in with the preassigned 100 coins or whatever it was always suspiciously one or two coins short of what I knew I had put in. So I stopped bothering with them cos it was clear, to me at least, that the bank were fiddling with the weighing process.

Now I just pay for bus fares with change. Everything down to the 1c's goes towards getting me in and out of the city for work.

(Ironically I use the aforementioned bank moneybags to seperate and hold the correct fares.)

GlindaGale

I have a change jar which I used to keep on my windowsill (I say jar but it's really a big smirnoff bottle). A few weeks ago i was locked, fell into it and knocked it out the open window, it smashed on the ground and the coins went everywhere. Cue me fliping out and spending 3 drunk hours looking for coins in the rain in my undies.

I now keep my change jar in my wardrobe.

weemcd

dysfunct wrote: »

I save anything below a 50c.
Like a lot of people i have a empty 3 litre bottle of vodka and its coming along nicely.
Its probably 3/4 the way filled at the moment

^ exactly what he said!

ShooterSF

I have an empty 3 litre boru vodka bottle from my days working in a nightclub that I have promised myself I'd fill before counting it. It's going well but I have a sneaking suspicion my little sister is nicking money out of it.

Basq

ShooterSF wrote: »

I have an empty 3 litre boru vodka bottle from my days working in a nightclub that I have promised myself I'd fill before counting it. It's going well but I have a sneaking suspicion my little sister is nicking money out of it.

Bury a few syringes in there.. you'll soon find out!

shenanigans1982

OldGoat wrote: »

My coinbank is a Dr Who TARDIS. :cool:

Storm Trooper Helmet:cool:, used to have an empty water cooler bottle but it was too awkward getting two euro coins and notes out of it the morning after a night out so had to change....used to use it on Bus fare, now it just tends to go into the savings box or I give it to my nephew.

Owen

I've a Ballygowan water cooler bottle. It's huge and I started filling it 2 years ago. Still not even 1/3 of the way there. i'm thinking when it gets full, the Euro will have been done away with at that stage.

Doolittle51

ciagr297 wrote: »

anything 10c or below is thrown into a jar/mug/sandwich bag.

one of these days i'm going to walk into the bank with two sandwich bags of small change at say....1545 (banks close at 1600) and make some cashier's day

obviously a day when i am feeling particularly evil:D:D

They'll tell you to f*ck off unless it's properly counted and in bank bags.

NabyLadistheman

I've started to fill one of those tins with a €500 all around it. I think it's the biggest one and will take me an age to fill. Im only putting 2 & 1 euro coins in and a few fivers here & there and when it's full I will take over the world. Mu hahahahaha

A previous attempt to do this ended shortly after it commenced when I had to use a tin opener to check the contents. To my dismay all the notes had been fished out - bitch I lived with. She owned up and replaced all but it has taken me 3 years to attempt this again

Rabies

Rabies wrote: »

NZ is almost as cash free society

So Ireland isn't the only country broke then?

citizen_p

i save it all.... just throw it in a very large vodka bottle.....about 2 ft high

Mousey-

Mousey- wrote: »

i save it all.... just throw it in a very large vodka bottle.....about 2 ft high

sure that's not a dustbin?

Jay P

I use those re-useable beer cups you get at concerts and stuff, cept mine is from a French street festival I was at last year. It was overflowing so at Oxegen I got a second cup in the form of a very snazzy Red Bull cup. All my change goes into it. Unfortunately, I've no lid so I tend to take money out of it I have a €20 note in it that I was very surprised to find. I had put it in ages ago, but now I'm always tempted to take it.

manco68

I have two empty 3 litre bottles of vodka full of 1,2 & 5 cent coins.The 10 & 20 cions i save and uses for fags.I went into the shop this morning with the change for fags and she asked me was i out singing.

Alessandra

I spend it as I go as I don't so much disposable income these days.

anti chris-t

i save everything less than 2 euro. Changed it there yesterday after saving it for a month and had over 100 euro so ive started doing it again now

Super-Rush

I save mine and use it for phone bills and car tax. Anything under a fiver goes into a jar,

Wertz

Coppers in a jar in the hall...clear it out every 6 months, bag it up and get €15-20 out of it.
10's, 20's and 50's in the centre console of the car to pay parking, tolls, or as needed if I stop at a shop.

I tend to avoid having lots of small change by using odds to make up my change to a round figure.

consultech

I have two big empty 3 litre water bottles, one for me copper, one for me gold. Usually count the gold up every 6 months and have 100-150 quid, seperate into money bags, straight into my bank account. I never quite get round to counting the copper though.

I got grief off some oul one collecting "pennies for heaven" in a bank when the euro changover was in effect and I had about IE£200 coinage to change, claiming I ws being "very mean" by taking the time to count out my hard-earned money and attempt to change it, instead of throwing it all into her big "charity" vat.

I also went through a phase of saving every bit of coin I had at the end of a day, and started filling a big 3 litre whiskey bottle. It got ridiculous though as I was putting 10 odd Euro in it some days, I was only doin it to see how much I could get to. I ended up cashin it in at about €800 after a couple of months.

consultech

torresistheman wrote: »

I've started to fill one of those tins with a €500 all around it. I think it's the biggest one and will take me an age to fill. Im only putting 2 & 1 euro coins in and a few fivers here & there and when it's full I will take over the world. Mu hahahahaha

A previous attempt to do this ended shortly after it commenced when I had to use a tin opener to check the contents. To my dismay all the notes had been fished out - bitch I lived with. She owned up and replaced all but it has taken me 3 years to attempt this again

Yeah if you're doin this you really have to SEAL it up tight, make your own contraption with maskin tape and your signature accross it or somethin. People are just filth in general, about 1 in 3 can't help themselves.

CallMeMiss

I have a tin with loads of coppers, 10's and 20's. I throw in a few coins now and then when I remember to.

I was wondering is there any machines around Dublin City centre that give you notes in return for the change but don’t charge?

Luno

I have a huge bag full of mainly coppers I was just wondering if I brought this into a bank would they go mad I mean not counted out or anything don't they have machines that do this alot quicker then me counting out every fecking penny when theres thousands?

IvyTheTerrible

M&S* wrote: »

I have a huge bag full of mainly coppers I was just wondering if I brought this into a bank would they go mad I mean not counted out or anything don't they have machines that do this alot quicker then me counting out every fecking penny when theres thousands?

I think they'll just give you a load of those little plastic money bags and tell you to come back when you've it all counted and in the bags properly.

Gear9992

A while ago I had a bottle that my family put small change into, up to 10c.

We counted it one time when it was full, was €100 :P

manco68

CallMeMiss wrote: »

I have a tin with loads of coppers, 10's and 20's. I throw in a few coins now and then when I remember to.

I was wondering is there any machines around Dublin City centre that give you notes in return for the change but don’t charge?

They have one of those machines in dunnes in ennis co clare,so i say they should have one in Dublin,which dunnes in Dublin i cant say maybe all dunnes stores have them.

ScumLord

I have a 2 litre bottle that I always dump any change into, I hate carrying around change. It's a life saver when you run out of money, there's often at least €50 in it. I put all coins in it but the €1 & €2 coins usually get taken back out for one reason or another.

I used to go to the bank but mostly go to those change machines in supermarkets because I'm usually in a pinch when I need the money changed and there's never a bank open when you need it.

Wertz

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I think they'll just give you a load of those little plastic money bags and tell you to come back when you've it all counted and in the bags properly.

Some banks will only take bags of coin from business customers. At the very least you would need to have an account in the bank from what I've seen.

I don't use them but the change counting machines in the like of Tesco or Superquinn wil do the dirty work for you for a cut of the take.