Has any one saved in a cash can?

nutty

I have been looking for one of these for ages and I have just come across a website selling them

http://www.giftology.co.uk/acatalog/Novelty_Cash_Cans.html

think i will go for a giant one

http://www.giftology.co.uk/acatalog/Cash_Can_Extra_Large.html

Dose anyone have any experience of saving in one of these?

Or dose any one no were I can get one cheaper? Dose this site look safe?

Sillychuckie

The best way to save, isn't to go and buy things to save in.

Get an empty coca-cola (or other drink) bottle, cut a slit in the side of it, and use that. A huge 4 litre bottle or something will hold a heck of a load of coins, all of which can be converted to notes easily enough when you fill it up. Some supermarkets provide machines to do this.

Failing all that, use a cardboard box, a plastic bag... anything. Don't go and buy something. heh.

Girl_least_likely_to

I think the idea behind not being able to get into the cans unless you use a can opener is a good thing. It'd stop me from raiding it every 5 minutes . Can anyone think of a cheaper/free way to achieve the same thing?

nutty

Girl_least_likely_to wrote:

I think the idea behind not being able to get into the cans unless you use a can opener is a good thing. It'd stop me from raiding it every 5 minutes .

This is what i was thinking but a free way would be a lot better

uberzoldat

How about buy a tin of soup that you would have to open with a tin opener, cut a coin-shaped hole in the top/bottom, pour the soup into a dish, eat soup.

Then rinse can and leave to dry. Remove wrapper and design your own cover.

Save!

(would also work with the caterer's sized tins)

Bullygig

I've had a large plastic budweiser bottle for about 10 years, must be about 2 feet high. I fill it with loose change on an almost daily basis. Takes about 2-3 years to fill, but each time I empty it it adds up to about £300, nice little surprise!

Girl_least_likely_to

I've have a big vodka bottle that probably takes about 2 years to fill. I only save coppers and 5p's. I usually get about £70 ish from it and I don't bother raiding it because it takes so flippin long to get anything out. Me Nan's knitting needle comes in handy trying to poke the coins out!

I'm thinking of trying to save 1 and 2 pound coins in something. I just need something to stop me from raiding it. I'm thinking along the lines of super glueing the hole to a money box. That'd flippin well stop me :rotfl: :rotfl:

K9cuddles

I have a cash can which I BOUGHT, and a TERRAMUNDI...and a free piggybank from pigback... I love them all. and all are good in there own rights there website you've linked to are a super price! Got for it.. I save any silvers under 50p in my cash can, £2 coins in my terramundi and 1p and 2p in my piggybank!!! Good luck!!

dora37

nutty wrote:

I have been looking for one of these for ages and I have just come across a website selling them

http://www.giftology.co.uk/acatalog/Novelty_Cash_Cans.html

think i will go for a giant one

http://www.giftology.co.uk/acatalog/Cash_Can_Extra_Large.html

Dose anyone have any experience of saving in one of these?

Or dose any one no were I can get one cheaper? Dose this site look safe?

The delivery on the ones from the above site is £3 - check out ebay, the p&p is much cheaper on a lot of them.

Just type in CASH CANS in the search and loads come up.

wigginsmum

My terramundi has £1 & £2 coins in it (roughly £50 so far, and it's an effort to slide coins back out on a breadknife blade so I can't just dip into it); my huge whisky bottle contains everything else, and I normally bag up £100 from it every 2 or 3 months to pay back into the bank.

Joe_Bloggs

There was a thread on the debt-free wannabe site regarding the uses of cash and what to do with change. My post is here. In summary, many think of collecting coins as saving. In fact you are throwing away money you could have earned in interest. Those coinstar machines charge you 7% in 10 seconds. Banks have limits on the number of bags they will accept. If you carry change you wont accumulate the stuff in the first place.
J_B.