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The £2.00 Coin Savers Club

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  • scuzz
    scuzz Posts: 1,995 Forumite
    Hello!

    Can I join the fun?? I have £14 in my pigsback piggy bank. They seem to have dried up
    Comping, Clicking & Saving for Change
  • If you keep saving the coins,no wonder there is a shortage! Why not do what one poster has done and pay them into a bank when you reach a target - £50 or £100?
    :j Every day in every way, learning to money save:j
  • scuba147
    scuba147 Posts: 181 Forumite
    there's defo a shortage, but i've manged to get 2 more overnight!!! we need to call the royal mint in an attempt to get more coins into circulation, whilst we are still saving!!!!

    Cluless to my total, as i can't see the money, unlike the coke bottle theory!!!!
    DFW nerd 144
    £2 savers club started (1st June 2006)
    Aim: To save £1000 by 1st June 2007! Achieved £842!
    New Aim - to save £1k by 1st June 2008 - So far banked £654:p
    Change Challene - Aim £150 from 9th July 2007 - £184.66
    Bronze Olympic Challenge target £1007. Current total £3340.78:T
    Olympic Challenge Part Deux - Aim £3k and saved £1449.43 (£1550.57k to go!!!)
  • Rebob
    Rebob Posts: 1,010 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    We spent £160 of the coins while on holiday so we are keeping going ready for christmas.
    The best bargains are priceless!!!!!!!!!! :T :T :T
  • Another 1 today. That's encouraging - seems to be picking up again! Must be that you lot are banking them and putting them back into circulation again :grin: :rotfl:
  • Wahey - joined this thread last week and today I got my very first shiny £2.00! :p
    Loan (orig. £6014.20), now [STRIKE] £5,813.74 [/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£5,063.58[/STRIKE], £5,438.66 debt free Oct 2009
    Won: Rizla Tin (£1), Wes Stace Book (£12.99), Nike DVD (£5?), Fairy Manicure Set (£5), Nestle Heaven (£1), Cadburys Melts (£1), Avon Eye Shadow (£5), Thorntons Chocolate Hamper (£50), Carole Matthews Book (£11.99), Spiderman 3 XBox Game (£40.00), Jessica Simpsons Bag (£130!), Samsung Camera Phone (n/y received £?), Avon LipGloss (£5), L'Oreal Casting Creme (£5.99), Tracy Make Your Own Stationery CD Rom (£8.99)

    = Won £282.96/Aim £180 - Won by 09/06/07
  • :D Just to let you all know i had £76 in my tin when i opened it not bad in a few months and can't say i missed the £2 coins when i put them in ,resisted the urge to open it before hols though! Need to sart again now ,Happy Saving.
    kazzylizzy :rotfl:

    £2 savings club - - - £8
  • I should like to join please. My Dad has paid for me to go on a family reunion to Lanzagrotty in January. I need to save my spending money (and eventually pay Dad back his £220) I have got £8 already to start me off...
    "grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can and the wisdom to know it's me"

    Debt at highest £18249
    DEBT FREE SINCE APRIL 29TH 2007
    :T :T :T
  • jules-2005
    jules-2005 Posts: 2,555 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    1 more for me today
    There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

    £2 savers club 2014 No.32 - £104 (was £504)
  • kezia
    kezia Posts: 322 Forumite
    OH actually came in and put 3 in today. It is amazing how catching this 'saving bug' has become!
    Smoke free since 16th December 2012
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