How to change 1p's and 2p's

simgranny

Our local Barclays used to change coins for me but now will only change these if you have an account with them. This is more than a bit annoying as I used to bank with them and they closed my account without my knowledge because it was dormant (when I stopped working for a while to have a baby). The bank I now bank with closed the local branch whereas Barclays is over the road from me.

I get round this by using my bags of 1ps and 2ps when I go in Barclays to pay my barclaycard bill!

Our local post office will change coins no bother.

bengal-stripe

simgranny wrote: »

I get round this by using my bags of 1ps and 2ps when I go in Barclays to pay my barclaycard bill!

Presuming you pay your Barclaycard once the month, I wonder, how many bags of coins do you accumulate in the course of a single month?

Always100FC

most small shops would bite your hand off for bags of 1ps and 2ps considering they usually have to pay a little extra for loose change

libertino

sharkmark wrote: »

Just out of interest and this is a genuine question - what have you been doing with all your 1ps and 2ps all these years?

Just put them in a pot of change when I don't want my pockets to be weighed down. Also if I was going out somewhere, for example a nightclub, and I don't want to be waiting longer searching through loads of change to pay for drinks I've already queued for 10 minutes for.

When I go to the shops or the market, I will take a load of change to pay with, but I still seem to have lots! I'm also one of those people who will pick up a 1p if I see it on the floor, so that's another way it accumulates.

I'm with Barclays so I could try changing it there.