Great 'Coins Down the Back of Your Sofa' Hunt

SamW

Haha - the man drawer!!! Always a great place to look for change!
We have piggy banks for 20ps and 5ps and at last count I think there was around £20 altogether.
Sam x

probbins2000

I got a sofa second hand and found £35 in notes down the back. Dilema was the sofa was given to us dirt cheap to help us out so I told the guy i got it from and we split it 50/50

MARKdown_2

I still have a pocket full of Euro coins from last year's holiday, and I don't think there are as many as ten of any type.
Is there a practical way to turn them into real money?

iMacThere4iAm

In my previous shared student house, I always used to volunteer to clean the living room because of all the cash down the back of the sofa! I generally found £5 - £10 each time I cleaned it

thesoupdragon44

Hi
Love this I am always looking for coins in sofas, and at the weekend we hired a camper van, with the help a small person who can get his hands into all the nooks (and some bluetack, secret weapon) we gained £2.10 have let the little one keep it as he wants to save to buy the van so we can go on holiday again!
Thanks

thesoupdragon44

you can always give this to charities I know that the one I work for cash them up! so look out for a worthwhile cause

jwil

I was in an accident in my car last winter, when I reached into the footwell to grab my glasses which had fallen off, I was a little bit excited to find a £2 coin. I then reminded myself that it wasn't particularly appropriate :cool: :doh:

markiev

In the years before widespread Sunday Opening, cashback and credit cards, my wife and I came back from France late on a Sunday and realised we had absolutely no food in the house and no english money, with only one local shop which was open. We thought of looking in the places mentioned above and amassed almost £1 in loose change, which was enough for a loaf of bread, butter, baked beans, and a cake. We felt like millionaires!

One other place we found quite lucrative was the bottom of the wardrobe, where money falls out of upside down trouser pockets.

Also try various drawers, plus consider raiding coin collections (loads of people keep coins which never actually become rare enough to sell above face value!)

prettypennies

I often find a few quid down the back of the car seat when cleaning it out. Last time I found enough to put it through the car wash .

The lint trap in the tumble dryer is another place coins end up in my house.

My OH's Polish uncle died several years ago. He was very wary of banks and had a tendancy to stash money in his house. When a plumber removed the immersion tank he found £1500 stashed behind it :eek: and when OH's aunty gave OH mum some of his old clothes to take to the charity shop, she found £900 in one of the pairs of trousers!

lesleymarr

I got a pair of shorts at a 'give-and-take' in Haringey and found a Greek £10 note. Hooray! Took it to the post office, they said Greece uses euros now, it's worthless. boo! Gave it to a Greek lady; she has an account with the bank of cypress, maybe they will cash it.
But I checked my fairfx card and found i had over £120 on it, not spent on holiday then forgotten. spent that . Hooray at last.