It's no joke - Save your coppers!!

reehsetin

my bro used to throw his away, we got him one of the huge bottles and last time it was like a 1/4 -1/2 full and there was over £100!!! always keep mine!

vfairbrass

Angelselondon wrote:

I found a £5 note once one morning on my way to work. Thought I was seeing things, people in Blackheath are obviously throughing their money away.

Must be something about Blackheath as I have twice in one year found a neatly folded £5 note on the Heath.
Valerie

Chocmonster7

nick_b wrote:

My mum always recited the rhyme "Find a penny, pick it up, and all day you'll have good luck", so I do this now as a matter of habit. Not too sure about the luck bit though

I'm glad I'm not the only person wandering around muttering that verse!

IWannabedebtfree

Round where we lived in Yorks, the saying was: "see a pin and pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck!" but money is def more exciting! My aged aunt, an old cynic used to say:"see a pin and pick it up, all day long you'll have a pin!"
The teenagers round here all throw their coppers away, as it's 'uncool' to have them-is that the same everywhere I wonder?

Churchmouse

IWannabedebtfree wrote:

Round where we lived in Yorks, the saying was: "see a pin and pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck!" but money is def more exciting! My aged aunt, an old cynic used to say:"see a pin and pick it up, all day long you'll have a pin!"
The teenagers round here all throw their coppers away, as it's 'uncool' to have them-is that the same everywhere I wonder?

Yep that's the version I knew too! And my Gran used to say the same as your aunt!:rotfl: My dear Mum was a constant source of these rhymes. Another of her favs was " If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider run alive" Consequently from the earliest age we were taught how to trap a spider with a glass and card, and release it outside. So even though I was terrified of them, I have never killed one. Nowadays I have my trusty spider vacuum catcher, so don't have to get quite so close:rotfl:

pollyanna24

If I was bored in a club, I used to wander around and look for spare change. It's amazing what gets thrown away when people are drunk.

The other day I was out with a friend and we all went to use the cashpoint. The lady before my friend very kindly left £50 for him. I'm sure she was mightily miffed when she found out, but it paid for our dinner in a local pub!! Now is that stealing? I don't know, but it was tasty!

wanting2save

My two daughters aged 4 and 2 love finding pennies on the floor.
They save them all in their pigsback money boxes (which they got for entering a colouring competition)and it is their way of saving for our next trip to Butlins.:D

wanting2save

pollyanna24 wrote:

If I was bored in a club, I used to wander around and look for spare change. It's amazing what gets thrown away when people are drunk.

The other day I was out with a friend and we all went to use the cashpoint. The lady before my friend very kindly left £50 for him. I'm sure she was mightily miffed when she found out, but it paid for our dinner in a local pub!! Now is that stealing? I don't know, but it was tasty!

I have left money in a cashpoint before when i was a drunk student.... i realise that someone would have taken it when they came across it but that did not bother me i was just really angry at my own stupidity!!:o

Churchmouse

pollyanna24 wrote:

The other day I was out with a friend and we all went to use the cashpoint. The lady before my friend very kindly left £50 for him. I'm sure she was mightily miffed when she found out, but it paid for our dinner in a local pub!! Now is that stealing? I don't know, but it was tasty!

I would beg anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation, to please contact the cashpoint operator who would be able to trace the rightful owner. I (a few years ago) walked away from a cashpoint having failed to pick up my weeks housekeeping. Realised within a couple of minutes and raced back, where there was no sign of it. I was crying, shaking and desperate and to this day can relive the absolute despair i felt. I was extremely lucky, in the end I found out (from my own bank) that nobody had taken it. If you don't pull the money from the dispenser within a certain time the machine takes it back and records that it has done so. I was extremely lucky, I simply could not afford to lose that money. I can understand the temptation, but actually in law it is stealing by finding. And you know what they say about what goes around comes around............

Avoriaz

Avoriaz wrote:

How many diseases have you picked up in the process?:p

ben500 wrote:

About the same as if you had handled the money when buying or selling I would guess.

Wee_Willie_Winkie wrote:

Don't be daft, we are not eating them. :rotfl:

I remember once reading that a typical bowl of free peanuts on a bar contains traces of urine from 21 different people. That is probably an urban myth but I wonder if the same applies to coins picked up off the ground.

Dog poos on pavement; coin drops on ground and collects 10 million nasty bacteria from poo; child picks up coin and 2 million bacteria transfer to child’s hand: child sucks fingers or eats a sweet and swallows 1 million bacteria. :eek:

I’m never touching a coin again.:D