Dear lord, I'm so sad...

Gillybean

This MFW thing is getting me good...

I decided to start saving £2 coins, along with our usual chuck the contents of yer pockets in a change jar.

Well I'd only managed one coin so far, but today we went to a local farmers market and we got a £2 coin each in our change! I was itching to get home and get them in the piggy bank!

I need to get a life...:D

seven-day-weekend

I save 2 Euro coins as I live in Spain and last year saved enough to pay for all the tolls there and back on our journey to the UK over Spain and France.

This year I have saved the same again.

I'm sad too as I actually swopped two 1 Euro coins for a 2 Euro with a Spanish lady who hadn't a clue what I was doing (Spanish not up to it, body language not descriptive enough!) and just looked bemused as I snatched them out of her hand!

Anyway, tolls paid this year too!

(98 Euros since last August).

teapot2

It only gets worse believe me, I get quite excited when I get a £2 coin in my change and no way will I spend it in fact I've had to break a £20 note for a small purchase in a shop where they were short of change just to keep my £2 coin for the piggy.

I bank mine towards overpaying the mortgage everytime I get £20 worth so when I'm getting near that total the mania is worse

MABLE

Gillybean wrote: »

This MFW thing is getting me good...

I decided to start saving £2 coins, along with our usual chuck the contents of yer pockets in a change jar.

Well I'd only managed one coin so far, but today we went to a local farmers market and we got a £2 coin each in our change! I was itching to get home and get them in the piggy bank!

I need to get a life...:D

You do indeed!

Di-Dough

People at work know I collect them ..... so they save up £10 worth of £2 coins and then sell them to me (for £10:rolleyes: )

Di

wendy+5

teapot2 wrote: »

It only gets worse believe me, I get quite excited when I get a £2 coin in my change and no way will I spend it in fact I've had to break a £20 note for a small purchase in a shop where they were short of change just to keep my £2 coin for the piggy.

Are you me?!?!

I have DH trained not to spend them either!

phizzimum

oh good, gillybean, when I read the title of the thread I thought you were feeling sad. It;s great that we get more of a thrill from saving money than spending it. Although I couldn't break a £20 note if I didn't absolutely have to - once those notes get broken they seem to evaporate from my purse (especially during school holidays )

bellsbells

Gillybean wrote: »

This MFW thing is getting me good...

I decided to start saving £2 coins, along with our usual chuck the contents of yer pockets in a change jar.

Well I'd only managed one coin so far, but today we went to a local farmers market and we got a £2 coin each in our change! I was itching to get home and get them in the piggy bank!

I need to get a life...:D

snap:D We are all addicted. It's as simple as that:o :rotfl:

gallygirl

Me too

My hourly interest on my mortgage is 29p. I walk along looking at the ground & collect all the change I see, then keep it in a separate bit of my purse till I've collected an hours worth, then put it in my mortgage pig with a victory salute

I need to get out more too - so I can find more money

Peefer (as in p for pig ) needs emptying next week, that should knock at least 3 days off my MFD :T :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

abouttimetoo

Alli07

Oh my goodness, I hadn't thought about hourly interest - I've just worked it out and it is £1.19 :eek:
Regards

flower_72

abouttimetoo wrote: »

Alli07

Oh my goodness, I hadn't thought about hourly interest - I've just worked it out and it is £1.19 :eek:
Regards

I have just done the same!! How sad am I? £0.36 on average for this year...
£8.64 per day just for the privilede of having borrowed money...
I sooooo want to be mortgage free