I just LOVE my penny pot!

puddy

ive just bagged up (in sandwich bags) about £18 in coppers silver and some pound coins, whats the rules on paying it in, i want to just pay it into our account, we are alliance and leicester or halifax?

pokey128

I often nip in to HSBC on my way home and empty my purse into the machine - sometimes its less that £1 other times over £10 but I do like seeing it all add up!
Definitely worth opening an account for!

gabyjane

Hi we have done this for years! we have one of those huge glass globe things that usually has plants in..we emptied the dead plant out! and now fill it with usually 1's, 2's and 5's and sometimes 10's and 50's but we take those out when cashing!
last time we had over £100 and used the cash machine counter in sainsburys, we know thy take a % but tbh it is easier and quicker than faffing with the banks who take 5 bags! and we don't spend it!
We have this pretty full again and will get done at the end of dec ready for our holiday!
Dh also keeps his tips at work in a lockable tin and i keep the key, he brought it home last week and it had £137 in, the silver coins have all been bagged and will go to the bank and the pennys etc in the jar.

Buttonmoons

I just bought a sealed tin to save money in, because when we put it in the pig it gets dipped into for bus fares etc.

Though DD being helpful emptied my purse and OH's wallet, goodbye pound coins! Must be over £15 knockin around in it now and I've only had it a few days.

Gravesendgirl

I have one of those ceramic sealed pots. It is really pretty so has a dual purpose. It will be a shame to smash it at the end. I empty all silver and coppers into it at the end of the day. I also have a rule that I am not allowed to spend any £2 coins I am given in change etc and they have to go in the pot. It is only annoying when I use £10 to buy something small and get all my change in £2 coins! It is about half full and I am either going to open it for Christmas or wait til our holidays in March. Either way it should be quite a bit. Think I may have to go and open an HSBC account for the purpose!

piratess

Our Local HSBC are brilliant! ... we parked up outside last summer and my OH carried in a washing up bowl full of counted and bagged coins mostly 20ps 5ps and copper came out with over £400! and yes they took the lot

Kerfuffle

Hi everybody,

I have a Sealed Pot and at the beginning of December everybody who is doing the Sealed Pot Challenge are going to open their pots, count the contents are see what grand total the Challengers have accumlated. It's going to be really interesting.

I fully intend to do the Challenge again next year but am thinking I will have different saving pots for different coins denominations.

Hopefully I'll have a Penny Pot to love too, :happyhear

Good luck everybody with your saving.

Deep_In_Debt

I've had a lot of loose change over the years. I count it and bag it, and take it to my local corner shop who cry out for the change as they get charged by the bank. So it works well for them and works well for me too!

BitterAndTwisted

Shops get charged at the bank for wanting change? Good Lord! Whatever happened to service? Sorry, stupid question, I know.

I've got sacks and sacks of coppers kicking around here but am much too MSE (read tight) to pay nearly 8% to have it changed in one of those machines and I dread having to lug the whole lot to the bank to pay it in, so I might pop round to my corner shop and see if they need the change instead. I must have a couple of hundred pound's worth here.

All of my one pound coins and twenty-pence pieces get saved for the launderette

pulliptears

Before the days of Paypal I used to sell a lot on ebay to the USA and would usually get dollars sent over. I saved them all up and as they were dollars couldnt just dip into them. By the end of the year I had hundreds of pounds stashed away

Of course, Paypal killed my savings plan lol