I love coinstar machines!

immoral_angeluk

We have a penny jar (Well it's a pint glass actually) which we regularly chuck all the pennies and small change into that's lying around.. it was 1/2 full yesterday so we took it to one of those coinstar machines and got £5.19 back!!! Amazing what a bit of small change adds up to!

lynzpower

:eek:

You do know this coinstar takes some of your money too?

Next time just count it up- shouldnt take too long

hex2

I love them too. I can live with the 8% charge out of sheer laziness!

We tend to do ours every 6 months Christmas and summer holiday and usually net about £40 from 2p,1p and 5p jars.

I know I could bank them for free but then I would have to count them, bag them and make a specific trip into a town to do it. Much easier to do on a supermarket trip.

Zippy2006

We use the coinstar in out local supermarket. Usually get £40 out of our jar. we cash in before going on holiday - the £40 pays for drinks / food in the airport and on the plane.

The 8% we can live with as counting and bagging of coins is not my idea of fun. I hate the stinck of coins on my hands after the counting is complete.

jessicamb

I'm with lynz on the 8% :eek: :eek: :eek:

I tell everyone I know not to use them. In fact for an 8% fee I'll count the lot

Stompa

jessicamb wrote:

I'm with lynz on the 8%

Yes, me too. If only I knew how to get rid of the ~£50 worth of change I've accumulated!

whatatwit

I'll count coins for 8%.

whatatwit

Stompa wrote:

Yes, me too. If only I knew how to get rid of the ~£50 worth of change I've accumulated!

I'll take it off your hands for £25...:rotfl:

yung

I only save for myself, not for anyone else to benefit or make a profit.

Stompa

whatatwit wrote:

I'll take it off your hands for £25...:rotfl:

I'm sure you would! But even coinstar would give me £46.

rog2

I totally agree with Lynz - we spent all evening countinh the 5p coins that we had saved in a Bell's Whiskey bottle - it took over a year to fill and it came to over £100. I wouldn't like to feel that someone else had got a profit out of our endeavour.
Besides, with three of us sitting at the table counting, we had no alternative but to talk to eachother - made a change.