whiskey bottles/copper pots

pavlovs_dog

was just wondering how many of you out there use an old whiskey bottle/ money box/jar to collect all your coppers and loose change in?

its amazing how quick it soon mounts up.

i have this strange complex where i cant stand to have odd amounts of change in my wallet - it either has to make a round pound, or pounds fifty pence anything thats left goes in my copper jar, and when thats full, i count it into bank bags and take it to the bank. quite often, its enough money for me to splash out on a train ticket to visit a mate in a far away uni.

was quite lucky the other day - found ten quid in the car park on my way to work, so that went in me copper pot too. just got to be disciplined enough not to touch it now!!!!


on a slightly different note, i remember when i was a little 'un that my nan used to keep the tubes that her false teeth cleaning tablets came in - they were the perfect size for saving one coin or other, and a full tube would be worth a fortune.

i've got to have a constant supply for 20ps for the copiers and washing machines on campus, but rather than sticking them in my copper pot, i collect them in one of those m'n'm minis tubes - each tube holds about a tenner :eek: two tube fulls, and you have the right amount that they ask for to fill a bank bag...and still i have more than enough than i need for uni

Murphy_The_Cat

I've got a whisky bottle that is filling up in a very satisfactory way !

I put in 1, 2, 5 & 20 p pieces, plus on every day that i have more than 1 alcaholic drink i put in a £1.00. (i'm not a puritan, it's just my way).

Itis 80% full at the moment and contains just over £558.00. Because i am a tight rrrrs, when it is full i take all of the 1p and refill it with higher value coins to make it worth more.

MTC

p.s this will be the third time that i have filled a bottle - and the only promise i make myself is that when it is full i spend it on a treat (not shopping, food, bills
etc)

Lillibet_2

I have a traditional pig money box which my mum bought me for my 10th birthday. Over the years I have used it as a savings pot for school trips, latest fads, nights out & duty-free spending money. I save everything upto 20p which is to be found in my purse at the end of each day plus any "found" money & other change when I am feeling flush. As I am giving up work later this year I am currently using it for Xmas savings, I won't have a lot to buy when the time comes as I tend to buy throughout the year but there should be around £25-£35 by November towards those latest release DVD's or CDs which you can't buy in advance. Of course, Ill be shopping around to get the best prices & to stretch my money as far as possible & I'm also saving all Tesco clubcard vouchers, Necter vouchers & lunchon vouchers in the pig towards the same cause! (currently around £12 in cash, £12 in LV's, £8.50 in tesco vouchers & £20 in nectar vouchers)

Penny-Wise_4

pavlovs_dog wrote:

on a slightly different note, i remember when i was a little 'un that my nan used to keep the tubes that her false teeth cleaning tablets came in - they were the perfect size for saving one coin or other, and a full tube would be worth a fortune.

My great-grandma did exactly the same! The sterilising tablet tubes were just big enough to fit pound coins in. I remember when i was little she gave me some tubes to save coins in, with a couple of pounds to get me started.

We collect all coppers and 5ps in a big pot with a lid. Every year we bag it up and take it to the bank – we have so many coins we have to arrange with the bank beforehand to bring it all in!

Mr Penny-Wise’s Gran ‘collects’ £2 coins. When she is out shopping with Grandad, and he gets £2 coins in his change, she will take them from him and say “oooh I collect those”. She has a large jar of them at home. I don’t think she ever spends them though, she just uses the jar as a door stop.

VickyA_2

We collect 1ps, 2p, 5p and 20p and have been doing since last June - when we have enough for a bagful it gets put in our little "holiday" account. What with doing a car boot sale last year too, we've almost got enough to pay for our share of a holiday cottage in the Lake District this year! Any (if any!) extra will go towards next year's holiday!

VickyA_2

Forgot to say, my parents have a Smarties tube to collect 20ps in for the local church. Each member of the village was given a full smarties tube (of smarties), and in return they collect their 20ps. They've worked it out that each smarties tube can hold £15 worth of 20ps.

Murphy_The_Cat

myself & Mrs Cat also put £1.50 each every week into a 'Sean The Sheep' bank - like a piggy bank but from Wallace & Gromit and by the time we have added a few topups during the yaer we have enough for a free cottage holiday.

MTC

p.s well not free but you know what i mean !

Cullumpster

OOhh thank's guys i might try the strerlising tubes to collect £1.00's , i'm currently saving £2 coins but i have to keep moving them to different hiding places as my b/f keeps 'borrowing' the money!!

Is there anything that holds £2 coins, you know like the tube thing?

VickyA_2

Cullumpster wrote:

Is there anything that holds £2 coins, you know like the tube thing?

My wallet?!!!

nicki_2

I used to use various money boxes for saving anything less than 20p but I've changed tactics now. I covered a fullsize pringles tube and another snack size one with blank paper. On the smaller one I wrote "Laundrette Fund 10p+<£1" just to remind me what to put in there.

I save 5, 2, and 1ps in the large tube, 10, 20, 50p in the "Laundrette fund". I empty my money bag (I've stopped carrying a purse as I'm tempted to spend the notes that I keep in there) of any appropriate money every time I come in from the shops. So if I shop 3 times in one day, I empty my moneybag 3 times. It's amazing how fast the money adds up. I only take another note out of my purse when I've run out of money or I am going to do the weekly shop, then I take the notes with me. I think I have about £7-10 already saved and I've only been doing it for a month.

When I've saved up enough copper I'll swap it with my daughters money that she has got in a piggy bank (£2, £1 and a £10 note) so that the piggy bank will fill up faster for her so we can go to the bank more regularly. She's currently splitting her pocket money (at least £2 a week in pound coins) between 2 piggy banks (one from Ireland that her grandparents brought back and a "Furness Building Society" pink transparent pig I bought for her for being an excellently behaved little girl at her great-grans funeral in January). She also has a ceramic one where we keep all the "slummy" (anything less than 50p) which I swap and change money in as and when needs must, it also has the IOU's from when I had to borrow some money out of her piggy bank to pay for some Gas *blush*. She's already got £50 in her building society account, and she is hoping to buy herself a new bed with the money she is saving ATM. Bless her, she's only 3 but understands that mummy & daddy just don't have the money so she wants to buy one herself, but she'll have to buy the mattress as well unless we can manage to afford one or the other. I don't mind, after all she is the one who keeps finding money in the street and won't go past it unless she has picked it up.

Please don't get the wrong idea about us, we do treat her to things, but usually it is an inexpensive daytrip somewhere, some time playing games on the internet with me, or she gets to bake cakes/bread with me. I want her to grow up knowing that essentials have to come before treats, but there are plenty of cheap/free treats if you just think about it.

Personallly, once our money boxes are full, then I'll use it to pay off some of our credit card bill. Even when we've got a zero balance, I'm going to keep doing this as it will be a great way of saving up for things like the car tax and MOT etc, which ATM with money being just too tight, we can't really afford. We might just be able to sqeeze enough money out of my partners next wages to afford 6months tax but if the car needs any work done when it comes to the MOT, we'll be stuck

scuzz

I've been saving coppers for years now. I've got one of those HUGE whiskey bottles and it's still not full. I've also got a brandy bottle for 5p's. And before you all think I'm an alcoholic, I used to work in a pub!

Seriously need to start saving more though, cos I want to buy a flat by the end of the year.