Does anyone save all their loose change?

shayshay

I try and save everything, however the other day had to take £16 from the £22 saved in £2 coins due to emergency shopping, so was genuinly gutted. But have another old Roses chocolate tub which houses everything up to about 50ps with a few pound coins in there, about £40 at the moment.

My uncle who is fairly comfortable used to get me when I was a kid to count his money jars. He had 16 of these very jars filled with everything and on Xmas had just under £3k with 800 £1 coins. And for counting it I got £200!!! Why did I have to grow up????:mad:

Rachie_B

i too save everything under £1 in a big jar and use the coinstar machine at asda / sainsburys now and again

im too lazy to count it all out separately and bag it up for the bank !

the kids also dip into it if we are going to the arcade machines at the seaside 2p machines etc lol

moggins

Yep, all the 5's, 2's and 1's go into a pot. The kids are going to be using them for amusements on the pier at Weston next week. They've already been told that is the slot machine fund and when they've spent it that's that. I'm not putting any money into a change machine. What with half price tickets to Seaquarium and taking our lunch with us it shouldn't be that expensive a day out if we spend the morning on the beach.

Iwantahouse_2

I've got a jar that has change of any denomination that is currently spare.

ben500

All my small change (anything under a pound coin) is dropped outside the door of my youngest, it his "treasure" and he has saved every penny diligantly since four years of age, he is now 12 has three bank accounts and roughly 1.5 times more than me in savings!

keith_lard

I stuff all mine into a drinks machine at work all 1p,2p and 5p's

Get a 15p drink and collect your change all in nice 20p coins!!!!!

It does work!!!

glen5213

I save 2pound coins for my daughter so she will eventually get to disney land banked about 400 pound in the last 7 months
Dont you just hate it when you get 2 pound coins in your change

ZTD

keith_lard wrote:

I stuff all mine into a drinks machine at would all 1p,2p and 5p's

Get a 15p drink and collect your change all in nice 20p coins!!!!!

It does work!!!

Some machines if you hit "Cancel" it doesn't return the money you put in, but instead returns the value of the money you put it, but in nice convienience denominations.

Get a fancy one, and it'll count it for you as well.

iwanttosave_2

I also save anything under £1, I have it in an old sweet jar on top of the fridge and it rackes up quite quick, I am using mine at the mo toward spending money for my holiday.

My 6 year old has also started doing it, I give him £1 a weeek for being good and the occasional bit of change for doing a good turn or money he finds in the street and he saves it, he has about £12 now in his.

keith_lard

ZTD wrote:

Some machines if you hit "Cancel" it doesn't return the money you put in, but instead returns the value of the money you put it, but in nice convienience denominations.

Get a fancy one, and it'll count it for you as well.

I use the KLIX drinks systems, works ok in them!:beer: :beer: :beer: