Saving change ?

Snowie · 17-07-2009 08:27AM #1

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 · 17-07-2009 08:28AM

Save it.

az2wp0sye65487 · 17-07-2009 08:40AM

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 · 17-07-2009 08:40AM

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

Gillo · 17-07-2009 08:43AM

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

Basq · 17-07-2009 08:43AM

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 · 17-07-2009 08:47AM

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 · 17-07-2009 08:50AM

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 · 17-07-2009 08:50AM

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

OldGoat · 17-07-2009 09:01AM

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

Dyr · 17-07-2009 09:12AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:16AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:24AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:26AM

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

Quazzie · 17-07-2009 09:29AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:32AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:35AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:39AM

I spend it

dysfunct · 17-07-2009 09:39AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:42AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:45AM

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

ciagr297 · 17-07-2009 09:46AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:48AM

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 · 17-07-2009 09:52AM

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 · 17-07-2009 10:09AM

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 · 17-07-2009 10:11AM

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 · 17-07-2009 10:18AM

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 · 17-07-2009 10:23AM

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 · 17-07-2009 10:29AM

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 · 17-07-2009 10:33AM

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 · 17-07-2009 10:36AM

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.

Saving change ?

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