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Why do we still have 1p & 2p?
tommy75
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Why oh why? Even the vending machines I used to use to get rid of the bloody things now only take 5p minimum!
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Why do we still have a Labour government, questions questions.0
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Some people use coins, we don't all light our fags with £50 notes....
I used a 1p earlier today, when my shopping bill came to £2.06 - and I do like to give the right money. In the next shop I spent £2.68 and received a 2p in the change.
I also nearly bought a small cob loaf for just 2p in the Co-Op bakery just before they closed.
If you don't want yours, send them to me. I clearly use 1p and 2p coins to eat
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If we didn't have 1p coins then shops wouldn't be able to charge £x.99.
Oh hang on,. garages charge 109.9p for fuel and we don't have a 0.1p coin.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »If you don't want yours, send them to me. I clearly use 1p and 2p coins to eat
I find them pretty indigestible, but they are OK if washed down with some Brasso, or hidden in a piece of polystyrene cake.
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I was speaking about this a few years back, time to ditch coppers and make everything a multiple of 5pThis is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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I reckon I have around 80 quid of coppers at home. Not because I want too, but because I cannot be bothered to sort it out and take it to the bank.....counting up being the worst thing.
Really should take some along to those coinstar machines I guess. Even if it's only a little bit at a time!
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To make holes in the pockets of your troosers.:eek:'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0
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Even when you go to spend a penny these days
it costs you 20p.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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Because chav yobs cant afford to throw 50p coins at football matches.0
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I seem to recall they did talk about phasing them out a while ago. I think that was because the metal in them, & the manufacturing costs for them were too mismatched.
I also recall this debate being run in the 90's, & some report suggested their main use was for charity donations, & also bus fare.It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0
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