"Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 10"

CazzieLT

Hi jakes-mum! Thank you for the warm welcome back! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh yes, Sparky! Is he still on here? Or is he constantly outdoors silently lying in wait for his next roadkill!?

Excellent potting! I've got unsealed tins for my bronze, silver and thankfully the soon-to-be-defunct old £1 coins, and every so often I manage to get a few bags together to pop in the bank, but I am reserving high hopes for the sealed pot of shiny new things! I forgot how obsessed you can get though, especially wanting to pay really little amounts with really big notes so you get the right change for your pot! xxx

jakes-mum

CazzieLT wrote: »

Hi jakes-mum! Thank you for the warm welcome back! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh yes, Sparky! Is he still on here? Or is he constantly outdoors silently lying in wait for his next roadkill!?

Its nice to see an old face re-join Alas, Sparky left us at the end of 2015's SPC (I think it was) sadly missed, but I think all those holidays keep him much too busy I'm sure he and LC2 are still fighting over the roadkill though :rotfl:

CazzieLT

jakes-mum wrote: »

Its nice to see an old face re-join Alas, Sparky left us at the end of 2015's SPC (I think it was) sadly missed, but I think all those holidays keep him much too busy I'm sure he and LC2 are still fighting over the roadkill though :rotfl:

Aww, but what a fabulous way to keep busy! And maybe I'll bump into him when I'm stalking the streets for discarded copper beauties xxx

lilyflower7

Yesterday I finally bought a new replacement pot which is rather very pretty And today I decluttered some change into the pot adding up to £3.77 :j

Just curious - what are people doing with their old-style £1 coins? Are you still potting them (with a reminder to open/bank in October) or something else?

CazzieLT

lilyflower7 wrote: »

Yesterday I finally bought a new replacement pot which is rather very pretty And today I decluttered some change into the pot adding up to £3.77 :j

Just curious - what are people doing with their old-style £1 coins? Are you still potting them (with a reminder to open/bank in October) or something else?

Hi lilyflower! Boy, do I love a pretty new pot! I'm hoping now I've been adding in the new £1 coins, my pot will fill up sooner and I'll be able to justify buying a pretty new addition too!

I've read a lot of articles that say a lot of machines like car parking machines are not going to be ready to take the new £1 coins for a long time so perhaps people could have theirs in a little kitty for such events. Typical that we have a shiny new coin but technology can't quite keep up!

Paid 99p with an old fiver and £4.35 with a tenner shopping today (those shop assistants are gonna hate me, but I don't care!) and have come out of it with a shiny new fiver and a really shiny new £1! (I'm embracing the shiny-ness!) So that's £6 in the pot for me today. My Mum has also offered me another new fiver as she knows I'm collecting them so I'll be raiding the shrapnel pots later and probably using a lot of 5ps to make the exchange!

Happy potting, y'all! xxx

PS - Still missing you Sue-UU - hope you are resting well and look forward to your return and my being made official again! Lots of love xxx

jakes-mum

Oooo! got meself a £2 coin! suddenly they popping out the woodwork! reacon the banks been hanging on to them so we wont have so many to cash back in with them come November :think:

Hi Lilyflower, i'm only potting new £1 coins but haven't opened my pot to remove the old ones i'd already potted, will do that probably in september/october time. Figure they may as well stay where they are for now, not hurting anyone

CazzieLT

Hey jakes-mum, I've just noticed some win totals in your signature - are you a comper too!? Short of getting a second job, it's the only way I can think of to earn some extra pennies! I comp like crazy but only ever seem to get the odd win here and there, but hey, it's fun trying!

Found some roadkill! A beautiful 2p, all shiny and everything, just smiling up at me waiting for a pot to call home. And I was happy to oblige xxx

32b3in2013

Evening

Keep going everyone. Sue will be back with us as soon as she is able

£2.51 potted today.

32b3

siju

£2.72 going in the pot today. Hope everyone has a lovely Easter holiday. I'm off until next Wednesday, so probably will pop back then to see how everyone is doing.

CazzieLT

Afternoon, potters! (Like campers, but sooooooooo much better!) Well done on all the super potting. That grand total is going to be something to behold! I've acquired another two shiny new fivers for the pot today by doing complicated swaps with Mumma and Nanna (don't worry, I think we all ended up square!) I do need to remember to make sure I still have enough money to get me through the month though, and don't end up changing it all for pot material! It's quite the obsession! (But one I'm sure I will appreciate come November 2nd!) xxx