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What do you do with all your small change?

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  • #32
    stevecrow74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭stevecrow74


    caoibhin wrote: »
    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

    pretty much the same.. i have a 3litre vodka bottle (empty) and fill it with 1c 2c 5c 10c 20c and 50c(anything else isnt small), then i raid it every now and again, put it into money bags, last time i got 76.00, the time before i got 179:00, i reckon i have about 80:00 in there now :D


  • #33
    yawnstretch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭yawnstretch


    I've this Britta water filter jug thing that I stopped using during the water contamination phase here in Galway. I raid it for the 1 and 2 euro coins now and then but mostly I grab a large handful on Sundays for the church basket :)


  • #34
    sebastianlieken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭sebastianlieken


    i throw anything up to 20cent coins at people (not homeless people or beggers tho....grrrr). ill keep anything from 50 cent upwards...it usually comes in handy.

    although, i did once give a begger loads of coins before...(was just back from the states and had pocket loads of cents, dimes, and quaters....big handfull of them right into mrs beggers cup... (JUSTICE :D)


  • #35
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Fringe wrote: »
    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.

    Shouldn't that be "I steal money when I take the bus"?


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just spend all my coins.

    I don't understand how and why people have a problem doing that.


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  • #37
    flanum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    If you use one of those paul masson wine bottles (the ones that look like one of those hospital bed pissing things) and just put 1,2 and 5's into it, its roughly 40 euros at the top of the front label (less than half full)! handy!


  • #38
    wandering_star
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭wandering_star


    Hudson 4 ever wrote: »
    I throw out small change with reciepts, its better than having tonnes of change or giving it to some homeless punk
    :eek:
    Not to sound like the cliche poor broke student here, but you throw away money?!?! I'm stunned, really.

    There are people struggling to make ends meet... I can see where you're coming from, ie it's annoying to carry around- but those 1 or 2c add up.

    Jaysus, stick in a tin, let it pile up, swap it for notes at the local bank and go on a mad one.
    Or buy the essentials like, bread, milk, and 12 year old Bushmills malt. :)

    Hmmm.

    (Me I stick mine in a Bushmills tin, keeps me motivated :D, what can I say, I'm a fiend for the whiskey :) )


  • #39
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I fúck my spare copper at homeless people for the laugh.

    Seriously though it just collects dust in a jar.

    Some supermarkets in the states i noticed on my last tour back had set up coin sorting machines: you dump little change in, and it gives big change out. Superb!


  • #40
    flanum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    Overheal wrote: »
    I fúck my spare copper at homeless people for the laugh.

    Seriously though it just collects dust in a jar.

    Some supermarkets in the states i noticed on my last tour back had set up coin sorting machines: you dump little change in, and it gives big change out. Superb!

    yes they have them in ireland too.


  • #41
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Put it into money bags. When I have €200 I have it changed to four €50 notes


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  • #42
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    flanum wrote: »
    yes they have (change machines) in ireland too.

    Where, flanum?


  • #43
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    luckat wrote: »
    Where, flanum?
    There's one in Supervalu on Fr Griffin Rd


  • #44
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    I drive around town late at night throwing it at the sleeping homeless people just to see their reaction when they're woken up.


  • #45
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    biko wrote: »
    There's one in Supervalu on Fr Griffin Rd

    Yep, but those machines take a hefty percentage of it. I think the ones that overheal was talking about are commission free?


  • #46
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    I lose it typically


  • #47
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,296 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Bag it up and bring down to the bank. Got €280 last time.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Damnit. This thread now has made me want to find out how much money I have in my change jar.

    /goes and counts


  • #49
    kittensoft1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭kittensoft1984


    flanum wrote: »
    yes they have them in ireland too.

    there is one in the Centra on Doughiska Road in Galway......but its like 10% fee or some crazy shi1t like that!

    I throw all my coins into a big savings box thingy.....last time i did it I had about €300 just before i moved!!!


  • #50
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Damnit. This thread now has made me want to find out how much money I have in my change jar.

    /goes and counts

    Well??? Are you a copper millionaire?


  • #51
    Cormic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    I have a jar in work and at home. Every so often I get wifey to change it for some proper money.


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  • #52
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Cormic wrote: »
    I have a jar in work and at home. Every so often I get wifey to change it for some proper money.
    How do you know she won't take a cut of it for herself?


  • #53
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I eat mine, saves me trouble of lugging it around in me back pockets.

    Or, when I'm not hungry, I spend my change eventually so I always have some in my back pockets. Real coins in one pocket, coppers in the other.


  • #54
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    rb_ie wrote: »
    How do you know she won't take a cut of it for herself?

    The severed ex-wifey heads mounted on the wall should be deterrent enough.


  • #55
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    arse..biscuits wrote: »
    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
    Wow, freddo bars are 25c now? In my day they were only 10p! *hobbles off*
    Ruu wrote: »
    Have a large coke bottle money bank for it (3 ft tall or so). It'll be a while until its full. :)
    I've a large coke bottle too. It's 60cm in height, and only 15cm full and the bottom's already cracking under the weight of the change. I counted it over a year ago and I was surprised to find €650 in it :eek: I dunno if I'll ever fill it, but I've fun counting it every-so-often.


  • #56
    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    I have a winnie the pooh money box, when that's full - stuff goes on my bedside locker, when *that's* full, I get money bags to sort out the change. Although most 50c / 20c go in my car for tolls.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nuts. Only €18 but thats mostly in 5c coins. Didn't bother counting the 1s and 2s. They're just irritating.


  • #58
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    javaboy wrote: »
    The severed ex-wifey heads mounted on the wall should be deterrent enough.
    heh heh


  • #59
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nuts. Only €18 but thats mostly in 5c coins. Didn't bother counting the 1s and 2s. They're just irritating.
    Yeah those 1 and 2 cent coins are a bollocks alright


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd probably have a lot more, but ever since Bus Eireann raised the prices to €1.45 around Galway, my coin jar gets pillaged most days.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I used to just spend it on bus fair or whathaveyou but I've been sticking it in a duck (box) lately.


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