It's no joke - Save your coppers!!

Boomdocker

odds-n-sods wrote: »

I think that 7% goes to charity.

Im afraid thats not the case for the CoinStar machines, its how the company makes its money. I think you have the option to donate your change to charity or take it yourself in the form of a voucher to redeem instore. Either way the company take theri 7% AFAIK.

Bella79

opended a saving acc for my little girl today carnt really afford to put so much in per month so i counted me copper jar up and me mums and weve got 100 quid ! yayyyyyy lol
gonna take it in tommorw i wanna give her a good sart so shes got a little nest egg when shes older for driving leasons or if theres any school trips then she can go on em
do any of u do this ?
gonna start savign again and once its full count it up agian

mary43

I've got a big whisky bottle and shove copper and 5ps in it...........never get to more than £40 in it though before I have to empty it out otherwise its too heavy for me to life.
'Needs must' situation lately meant it got emtied sooner and had £27 in it....so thats all bagged up now and I'll start again, hopefully for Christmas (I usually do it so that we have some to take for a few days away and the rest for Christmas_

sillyvixen

i keep all my coppers, 5p's and occasionally 10p's (when i have alot) in a number of jars. once a years i take them to the coin star machine in asda. i usually have £50+ and i use this to buy the christmas extras (booze, chocs etc ) and a few pressies!! i mentioned this to a friend at work who mentioned she hated small change and usually put it the bag the goods came in and threw it in the bin!! she has taken an old coffee jar from work to keep it in now!!

busy_mum_4

We have got an old large whiskey bottle that lives at Grampy's house and he saves all of his coppers in it for the two grandchildren, we visit him every Saturday and take all of our coppers down and put in. It only gets emptied once a year, just before christmas and we all sit and count it in to the little plastic bank bags. Whatever the total is we split equally between the two grandchildren, and that an extra christmas present.
They love it.

Kaz2904

The full saying is
"Find a penny, pick it up. All day long you'll have good luck.
See a penny, let it lie, luck all day will pass you by."

DD was really annoying me in Asda the other week - pulling on my hand. I told her to stop it and she said "but Mummy I can get you some money...." and dragged me over to the coinstar machine. I started explaining to her that you had to put change in and got charged for it when she pulled out a handful of money. £3 Sterling and a few Euros.
Am I evil for making her share it with her brother?
Now wherever we go she's on the lookout for change. I was the same when I was a kid- I even found £1 in a cave once!

luxor4t

We have started keeping a record of how much we find this year (sad? yes but don't care!)
£7.57 to the end of May :T and 29p so far this month.

DS2 still does a paper round and has found £7.30 this month, all of it on the streets including the £5 note which was blowing loose in the middle of the road after the big outdoor dance music concert. I suppose 12 hours of having your head blasted off would be enough to make anybody lose their grip on their cash!

shazrobo

two weeks ago i took my sons to lightwater valley, first one found a five pound note at the side of the litter bin, and then the other found a pound coin near one of the rides, they are always finding money, i dont have their luck

skintas_2

i was so skint about march i went to a club with a friend for her birthdfay as i walked out the door there was a £50 pound note, boy was i happy, took it home paid it towards my halifax credit card straight away

pigpen

A lot of shops are grateful for the bags of coppers.. businesses have to pay the banks for bags of change so anyone who takes them in is wonderful! I take mine to the greengrocers where my sister works.. a bag of £1 of 1p's or 2p's is 6.55/6.6g (will be grams won't it?.. I'm useless with this 'new fangled money' lol) on the electronic scale.