Does anyone save all their loose change?

Brassic

Nope, mine gets spent. Every last penny of it. Gets used on bread, milk etc that I get at the local shops.

chloejane_2

put mine into the kids money boxes, when they do jobs its great as they get a little reward and i dont getto spend to much, they know what money is and how to use it etc but dont really get the real value of it yet, im sure it wont be long though

piglet6

tesuhoha wrote:

I save all the money I find lying around and to my shame I pick up any money I find lying on the ground.

No shame in that - seems to me like a very sensible idea...so more fool those who don't bend down to pick up "free money"!!

Piglet

(Who was once young and foolish and wouldn't be seen dead bending down to pick up dropped change - but who has now seen the error of her ways, and not only picks up everything she sees, but who regularly announces "Eyes down!" to Mr P whenever we are walking across a "paying" carpark...:p You'd be surprised by the amount that people drop when they are fiddling through their pockets on the walk between the car and the pay machine!!:rolleyes:)

d11wtq

We have a jar in the kitchen and we all throw loose change in it purely to get rid of it. The jar, when full of 2's and 1's usally amounts to just about £20 which we bag up into money bags and take to the bank. I'm a sucker for never counting out the correct change for the shop assistant so I always accumulate enough to make me walk sideways.

SunderlandBlackCat

Weird that this thread should appear now when I've just found a jar of 1 & 2p coins at the back of the cupboard that I'd completely forgotten about. Must have been there for over 5 years & looks like it has abour £30-£40 in it.

I was going to go & dump it into the machine at ASDA but as it takes a cut & I pass my bank on the way there I might as well just deposit it & get the full value.

anniestar

I have a small tin in the bedroom and shove 1,2&5's in there. Hoping i'll have enough to get somthing towards DH's birthday pressie.Fingers crossed.

bizzylizzy

We have a large jar that we put all our 1, 2 and 5ps into. It's the emergency fund, for desperate times (which I feel may soon be upon us).

flowerofscotland

Some great ideas on this thread. When I had my LBM I worked out a weekly budget for food and other cash expenditure. I go to the cash machine once a week and draw out the weekly allowance but before I do I empty my purse of whatever is left over - small change goes into one container, 50 and pound coins into another (£2 coins are being saved separately so never make it to the end of the week!). One of my DFW goals is not to put any Christmas expenditure onto my credit cards so at the moment I am savings these coins to help with Christmas spending. Haven't counted the small change but have passed the £50 mark on 50s and pounds

Sultana

My 5ps go into the ashtray in my car so I can feed them into the parking machine at my local shops. (40p for an hour). The people waiting their turn at the machine love me - they really do

gargoyle

Yep, I have a change pot and routinely pick up any change I find and put it in. I also raid my husband's pockets for loose change and he asks what constitutes as change as I'm grabbing anything less than a pound. I told him anything less than £50 as any other currency is change from a £50. He didn't go for it though, I wonder why........