Find a penny, pick it up...

Rebob

Also, at the dump I managed to get a gas cylinder for free that costs £36 to get from the camping store.

squeaky

It would be a good idea to have it tested before having it filled. It may have been dumped because of a fault or a leak. I hope it's OK though

Rebob

They don't fill that one. They swap it for a full one. The empties are tested and filled before you get one so there is no problem "collecting" an empty.

squeaky

Oh, right. OK Then you're very much on a winner

sarahmelita

I knew there was a reason for me always picking up coins! Don't think I've quite reached that much though!

moggins

I've never actually taught my kids to do this but they seem to do it automatically. My son found £1.20 on the way home from school the other day. What did annoy me though was when my three year old spotted a pound coin on the floor outside a local garden centre and gleefully ran to pick it up as she knows that any money she finds she can spend it on sweeties.

Some rotten sod had glued it to the floor!!

badgermonkey

Most of my money I pick up is stuff the BF leaves lying around the house

What is it about men and little piles of change? I'd be damned if I'd leave 20p in silver lying about but I don't mind 'looking after' it for him.

nicki_2

All my found money goes into my PIN money so it just gets re-absorbed. My uncle puts all his change into a box every night until the box is full. Last time he counted it out he had about £120 :eek: He then put the money into his savings account to go towards home improvements and a holiday

apple_mint

I went to college as a mature student. The night after the Summer Ball I took my 2 daughters up to the campus and they found a fortune in 'lost change' by the funfair site ... they still talk about it! ;-)

pug_in_a_bed

the full rhyme is, i think:
see a penny pick it up all day long you'll have good luck, give your penny to a friend and your luck will never end.

I am obsessed with collecting pennies but I never go by the last bit!
I've got 6 china pigs bursting at the moment. I do it every year, fill up every jar in the house and then by december I have all my christmas money. I work in a pub and people are always dropping pennies in their drinks and horribly their ashtrays. This is vile but i getthem out and wash them - every penny counts!!

When i was little i had a brittania savings account, my nan also opened one and they gave us a blue china pig (i have no idea why they gave a 65 year old lady a pig!). After a week or two my nan got fed up and smashed the pig with a hammer.