Good old fashioned saving...in a giant whisky bottle!

GreenBitterfly

I've got a ceramic Tardis that I put 1p, 2p, 5p, 20p, and 50p coins into. I like the idea of the sealed pot challenge.

jimjames

robatwork wrote: »

Where's the best place put these coins into a machine that will spew out something more useful? I don't have a natwest account and I think the supermarket coinstar machines take a big cut.

Are Metro bank machines usable by anyone?

I've not tried it but understand the supermarket self checkouts take them and any excess is given back in higher denominations.

Slinky

We got rid of the whisky bottle when we last filled it as it took so long to fill now that we use so little cash (about 6 years to fill). I have an old cigar jar which belonged to my Granddad where the coins go now, apart from 5ps which go in a Jamaican rum jar and £2 coins which go in a small pot.

Eco_Miser

Swhite1991 wrote: »

Please tell me there are other people who do this!

Obviously, there are lots of people who do, but I prefer to spend my change, therefore needing to get less money out of the bank, therefore leaving more in the bank, earning interest - which you don't get on coins in a bottle.

dale_cotterill

Swhite1991 wrote: »

Please tell me there are other people who do this!

I did. I remember counting up £130 of random change when I was about 15. Think I used to put anything below 20p's in every day when I came home from school.

I have a random plastic pig with a (very) small selection of coins in, looking at me longingly as I haven't contributed anything for a while now.

Aside from paying at the gate at football, I honestly have no idea when I actually last paid for anything in cash!

redmalc

We have saved £1 &£2 pound coins in a large coffee jars and when they were full we had £765,a very nice surprise when we counted them both

bowlhead99

£100 in pound coins weighs less than a kilo and £100 in twos weighs about 600g. If you let them stack up you until your stash is the weight of a bag of sugar you can be reunited with an impressive amount of real money for what doesn't feel like a huge amount of effort.

Must admit, that phrase about 'look after the pennies and...' is not something I pay attention to. If I drop a penny and it takes me 15-20 seconds to pick it up, I'm only getting 'paid' a third of minimum wage for my efforts and I value my free time much more than that. So I really don't bother with carefully collecting a hundred of them for a pound.

castle96

saw some children throwing away 5ps and 10ps a while ago !! Of course I picked them up. Daft kids

PeacefulWaters

castle96 wrote: »

saw some children throwing away 5ps and 10ps a while ago !! Of course I picked them up. Daft kids

You do have to balance the risk of a slipped disc against the gain of a few pence.

Mossfarr

I have one of those large plastic water bottles which I use to save copper coins, Its about 1/4 full at the moment and weighs a ton!
God knows if I'll fill it in my lifetime - I've told my kids its their inheritance cos I'll be spending everything else!
Small silver (5p, 10p 20p) is saved in a little plastic pig which is paid into my Grandsons savings account every few months.
I also save £2 coins - but only the ones where the queen wears a necklace lol.