It's no joke - Save your coppers!!

FZwanab

After saved coppers are cashed they go back into the system, so next time you get your change in a shop could be someone else found it sometime earlier!!

Penny-Wise_4

My FIL tends to find notes not pennies. I was in the car with him once & he pulled over, jumped out the car & picked up a tenner off the pavement, (& i thought drivers were meant to keep their eyes on the road!), & gave it to me .

MIL says he's done that quite a few times before. A couple of times she has been walking with him along the pavement and he suddenly told her to stop then asked her to retrieve the note she had just stood on. She hadn't even realised it was there.

Omertron

reehsetin wrote:

there was an article years ago that said something stupid like 80% of money had traces of drugs on them, i wouldnt be suprised, just stick all your coppers in a bottle of coke

And not so long ago either.... Telegraph Link

teedy23

I used to ignore dropped coins too, even my own. But for some reason, I cant remember what , when my mum died 4 years ago I kept finding the shiniest pennies ever. I took this as a present from mammy and have been piching them up ever since, I have a charity box now for sence Scotland, which is a society for deaf children ( my mammy was deaf in one ear from childhood) and thats where the coppers go

Avoriaz

Some enterprising person is probably developing a method of extracting cocaine from bank notes.:D

nicki_2

I've always picked up change I've found in the street Once in a pub I found £5 on the floor of the toilets and it paid for a taxi most of the way home (with my very drunk OH....trust me when I say he NEEDED a taxi ) and another time as I was about to leave my bank branch I spotted £80 in £20 notes laying on the floor. I took them back to the cashier and told them I had just found them. She took my name and account number, 4 weeks later I got a phone call saying no-one had claimed them so they were being deposited in my account Now thats what I call FREE money :money:

hazzie123

I love mooching around for dropped cash,sadly the pennies have dried up round here.

I found 2 £20 notes last year,but sadly no notes as yet.They are a bugga to find as so many bits of coloured paper are on the floor.A 5 min walk takes me about 30 mins as I`m spending too much time hawk eyeing for money.

I work in a shop and sadly we are not aloud to keep any cash laying on the floor,it has to go into the charity boxes.Uni Students are the worst for discarding loose change.Then they moan they have nowt!

scuzz

I always collect pennies or any other form of change I see on the ground. Another good source of change is supermarket trolleys. Watch out for any abandonded ones in the car parks, where people can't be bothered to take them back. Lots have pound coins available for whoever takes the trolley back and attaches it to the rest of them. Public phone boxes are good too, look on the floor and in the coin return slot

wanting2save

teedy23 wrote:

I used to ignore dropped coins too, even my own. But for some reason, I cant remember what , when my mum died 4 years ago I kept finding the shiniest pennies ever. I took this as a present from mammy and have been piching them up ever since, I have a charity box now for sence Scotland, which is a society for deaf children ( my mammy was deaf in one ear from childhood) and thats where the coppers go

Ahhh that is really nice!! I am sure they are a gift from her!!
xx

victory

I always pick them up, Sainsbury's do the counting coin thing and the lady infront of me had collected £84 just by doing that!!
We on the other hand only £3.84 but hey ho more than we had before!! xxx