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

lr1277

Well not a whisky bottle nor a bottle of any kind.


But I do save any £2 coins that I get in one of those bags you get from banks for paying in money.
When I get to £20, I take that money and overpay the mortgage. (Got the idea from the £2 club). I don't like the idea of not reducing the interest bill from my building society.


I did try and save smaller denominations, but to fill the bag up with the required amount took so long, that I only did it the once with 5p's.


The time taken to fill the bag up with £2 coins is variable. Sometimes it is full in weeks and at other times (like now), it is taking months.

pogg000

I save mine it the little money bags you take to the bank, along with a strip of paper with the total amount of what is what in each bag. When it gets to the full amount I take it to a local shop which is happy for me to spend it as real cash.
Then paid into where ever i fancy paying it that day, saves waiting ages for it to do something good for me.

Herbalus

bowlhead99 wrote: »

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

It takes you 15-20 seconds to pick up a penny?

I just threw a penny across the room and managed to stand up, retrieve the penny, and return to my seat in less than 7 seconds...

Any change I have goes straight in the self-service machines in supermarkets, and I pay the balance by card. It means I don't have to carry coins home.

mrputney08

I put any loose change in my 'Vet's pot'. My cat is too old to insure and my biggest fear is not having enough to at least begin to pay the vet for any emergency treatment he may need, so this is my 'emergency cat's vet pot'. It helps me sleep at night.

mgdavid

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Dovestones

Spent nearly 3 years saving £1 coins into a 3 litre vodka bottle, total when full £1584!

lindsaygalaxy

Where did you all get these bottles from!

eskbanker

Roy_D wrote: »

Spent nearly 3 years saving £1 coins into a 3 litre vodka bottle, total when full £1584!

It all comes down to opinions I suppose, but if you'd bagged them up regularly and got them into a bank with a decent interest-paying current/savings account, you could potentially have earned getting on for £100 in interest too over that time!

Doshwaster

All change under 50p goes into a 2 litre plastic container. It's almost full now so it will be interesting to see how much is in there.

I can't be bothered to bag it all and go to the bank so I will just use it to feed the self service checkout at Tesco. It would be good to have a few weeks "free" grocery shopping.

mgdavid

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

Where did you all get these bottles from!

car boot sales :-)