What do you do with all your small change?

Archeron · 17-05-2008 07:38PM #1

It seems most people eventually end up with bulging pocketfuls of little bronze coins these days, and at the end of the day, most people just fling it in a pile somewhere til it comes in handy. What do you actually do with yours?

I hate handling money, particularly coins and once I have a big enough (ie heavy enough) bag, I bring it to one of those machines which sorts it and then takes a big chunk for the company that owns the machine (12.5% now, getting steep, should reconsider this option really). Although I know its a rip, I do love going to a petrol station, getting fuel and lunch, then cashing your coins and walking out with more money that you went in with. (some people prefer illusion to reality!!)
My dad sorts out his bags of change into properly measured bank bags and cashes it in the bank, while a friend of mine just pours little bags of coins into the collection tins for various charities. Some people just build up vast quantities of coins in their homes til they have no room left for furniture.

What do you do with all your small coinage?

Ciaran500 · 17-05-2008 07:40PM

I spend it, rarely get left with much change that way.

Hudson 4 ever · 17-05-2008 07:40PM

I throw out small change with reciepts, its better than having tonnes of change or giving it to some homeless punk

c - 13 · 17-05-2008 07:40PM

Store it up and when I feel theres enough I offer my little sister a percentage to count it out for me and bag it. I get a better rate than those machines

Not a whole lot better mind you, she's getting quite good at haggling for a better percentage and on a couple of occasions has refused to count it unless for a set price. Clever.

longshanks · 17-05-2008 07:43PM

i fill one of those big empty vodka bottles with it, or pay parking fines with it. although those folks are gettin a bit upitty (uppity? uppitty?) about the number of coins they'll accept

siobhan.murphy · 17-05-2008 07:45PM

put in jars,each with there own type,1 cent 2 cent ect..,when full:D
bag them and if they are all the same the can weigh them in the post office

mikemac · 17-05-2008 07:48PM

When I'm queuing in shops I usually count it up and hand it over.
No, I don't hold anyone up as I count out small change, I have the exact amount ready and hand it over.

Some cashiers hate it, some cashiers love it as it's the exact amount. I don't care either way

I hate people who queue for ages and they hold up the queue by fumbling around their purse/wallet.:mad:

Caoimhín · 17-05-2008 07:53PM

I throw all my coin change into a pot i have in the bed room. Then every year after ive booked and paid for my holidays i break it open and count it. This year my spending money bonus id 879.00 euro.:D

arse..biscuits · 17-05-2008 08:00PM

I count out 25c each day in 1c and 2c's and buy a freddo bar after lunch. The girl see's me coming and laughs

connundrum · 17-05-2008 08:04PM

Goes in a bucket and pays either NTL, Gas or ESB bill. Or buys lunch if I'm smashed

CathyMoran · 17-05-2008 08:09PM

Give it to my husband to spend as I am too embarassed to use it (he gives me notes of the same amount in return).

Ciaran500 · 17-05-2008 08:15PM

What is it with people being embarrased to use change?

My dad won't even pay for the bus with change.

Fringe · 17-05-2008 08:16PM

Use it as busfare. Little coppers along with a few 50's + 20's make it look like you've got loads of money and it makes it hard to count so I save money when I take the bus.

LadyE · 17-05-2008 08:20PM

Small change goes into my sons money box - every 6 months or so it get counted and lodged into his credit union account.

Any money I have left over from a night out/day I keep in another money box..the one ongoing at the moment is spending money for Disney when we go in sept.

You actually dont notice it gone and it really adds up.

Susannahmia · 17-05-2008 08:28PM

I have an old three liter vodka bottle that I put all my change in, last time I emptied it I got 880 out of it, was only putting change in it for about eight months at the most.

Thrill · 17-05-2008 08:37PM

The brown stuff goes into the boxes on the shop counter.
I throw the 5,10, 20, 50 cent and 1 and 2 Euro coins into a big plastic bottle, those water cooler bottles, at home.

I emptied it out a couple of months ago and had over 600 Euro in the thing.

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Sherifu · 17-05-2008 08:39PM

Throw it at ducks.

mike65 · 17-05-2008 08:41PM

Jam jar it then bag it and cash it in. Feels like free money

Mike.

Holsten · 17-05-2008 08:42PM

I used to have it in a Cartman piggie bank thingy, then my Da took it and got it changed up, there was over €100 in it!

I've got a load of change now in a lunchbox, probably around €50 in that one.

Loopy · 17-05-2008 08:43PM

Save it, then cash it and then spend it..

Melion · 17-05-2008 08:47PM

Ive a 5ltr Vodka bottle in the room. Everything under a 50c goes into it but i think ill start putting 50's in aswell. Its half full at the minute so prob about €250-300 in there

17-05-2008 08:52PM

Buy cheap junk food on Taco Tuesday at Del Taco.

uberpixie · 17-05-2008 08:53PM

small change gets fecked onto a plate in my room, when the plate fills up, I sort the money out into little tubs for each denomination lower than 50 cent.
(makes it easier when I eventually get around to bagging the change)

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Last time I banked all my change i had, was about €70 worth.

Other than that the odd bus fare when I don't have a bus ticket or spend it in the vending machine at work.

simu · 17-05-2008 11:33PM

I made a piggy bank out of an old jar - it's great to here the clink of the small change going in. It's mostly used for bus fares.

_blank_ · 18-05-2008 12:04AM

I throw all change into a small bucket.

I usually cash it in every six months or so.

One time my brother got a grand and a half from his jar :eek:

nlgbbbblth · 18-05-2008 12:22AM

I put it in my wallet and will endeavour to spend it when I'm next handing over money.

Loads of people blindly hand over notes when they could probably make up the amount from the change they have.

If you throw your change into a jar every day then surely you're constantly breaking notes?

Ruu_Old · 18-05-2008 01:26AM

Have a large coke bottle money bank for it (3 ft tall or so). It'll be a while until its full.

challengemaster · 18-05-2008 02:02AM

nearly the same as yourself, Ruu.. A giant bottle which fills

Kimbot · 18-05-2008 02:18AM

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Should make life easy when I go to clean the car. The amount of change under my seats is unreal. Have some tins around the house aswell with coppers in it.

Notorious · 18-05-2008 02:38AM

I generally put it all in a jar, and when my sisters come home with those Trocaire boxes they give kids in school, I give give them the change to put in the box. It usually fills over a box too.

gerky · 18-05-2008 02:59AM

Thrill wrote: »

The brown stuff goes into the boxes on the shop counter.
I throw the 5,10, 20, 50 cent and 1 and 2 Euro coins into a big plastic bottle, those water cooler bottles, at home.

I emptied it out a couple of months ago and had over 600 Euro in the thing.

.

I think ya might get in trouble for that.

Childish humour ftw

What do you do with all your small change?

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