Get yourself a 'Mortgage Pig'

pink_fairy_7

Just £20.50 in my piggy from the last 6 weeks so have put this in the savings account towards an overpayment.
My piggy is not getting fed so much a the moment because all our spare money is going towards our wedding and my debt.
Never mind, every little helps.
Good luck to all the newbies
pf x

Good idea keren about the tins, it is sometimes tempting not to borrow the odd 50p when you need change for something:D

Redbedhead

H finished at work on Friday and emptied out his drawers at work. He came home with a huge handful of change that all went in to the mortgage pig / Smirnoff bottle:T

1ANGEL

:T Brilliant!! How funny! I want one too!:A

reformedEffortMaker_2

Hi Everyone

Apologies if this question has already been asked/answered, but I have scrolled through over 50 pages of posts and not found anything!

How are people physically actually converting the loose change in their piggybanks into money off their mortgage?. I have a very large jar of pound coins and silver which is nearly full, I took to my local Barclays bank and was told that they would not change large sums of coins unless I had a business account. I then went to my local ASDA to use their Coinstar Machine to notice that they charge a healthy 7% to convert coins into notes, which kind of defeats the point of making an effort to save it!.

Any ideas?

reformedEffortMaker_2

ignore, my last posts, if I had looked at the last 50, instead of the first, I would have noted that someone has already raised this-sorry!

Redbedhead

reformedEffortMaker wrote: »

ignore, my last posts, if I had looked at the last 50, instead of the first, I would have noted that someone has already raised this-sorry!

I often take it in in dribs and drabs to my local shop - they are often happy to change up change. Re Barclays - I think they won't change large sums but you can do smaller amounts and do a few trips.

Cstrikedish

A great idea! Do it as your said.

Jo.G

I am a newbie but love this site! I have just bought a pig, not to pay off the mortgage (yet) but to help us save for other things that in the past we would have gone and bought on credit. Any loose change I find goes into Katie (OH named her after the woman on The Apprentice!) including the coins I find lurking at the bottom of my washing machine. I have promised to make OH his lunch for work every day and he will feed Katie the money saved. I am also planning on putting any pound coins left in my purse at the end of the week to make sure I save it instead of spending it on nothing. Hopefully Katie will be a bit snobbish about what she is fed and insist on notes and pound coins! But anything is better than nothing and DS likes to pick up pennies found on the ground and has decided they will all go into Katie.

butterfly72

butterfly72 wrote: »

I joined pigsback to earn a curly piggybank... but they have been out of stock for ages! Are the curly piggybanks any good and how often do they have them in stock?

I emailed PB and had a reply today. They said they should be getting some more piggybanks in stock this week and to keep a look out!

Dithering_Dad

My mortgage pig - well actually I think it's a gorrilla so we call it my mortgage monkey - is almost full! I can't wait to see how much is inside.

Just one question (and apologies if it's been asked before, but I don't have the heart to wade through this huge thread), how do I convert the coppers and silver into proper money?

Do I have to get a load of plastic bags from the post office and sort it by hand or do larger post offices/banks have a special machine that I pour my change into and it sorts it??