Saving in a Whisky bottle

Stonk

I collect my copper coins in one of those tubes you get round nicer whiskies. It's been about 3 years too, and it's very heavy. When I counted them I had £11.89. What an anti-climax.

I must be particularly guilty of raising everyone's taxes, because the cost of minting fiddling small change must be proportionately higher than that of minting the bigger nuggets. So I will pay my next tax bill with them, to counteract the negative effect my hoarding is having on the economy. Sort of.

System

Unfortunately for me, i have to draw out £5 a week in 10ps, 5ps and 2ps for my sons bus fare to school. However, if i do have the odd 20p, i save it to go towards my mobi top up.

elisebutt65

Judi wrote:

Unfortunately for me, i have to draw out £5 a week in 10ps, 5ps and 2ps for my sons bus fare to school.

Can't you get him a weekly pass??? That's what I do and usually saves me a quid as well.

Indispensable_Hobbes

I have a giant whiskey bottle too... onto which i painted with glasspaints 3 lions (very patriotic (right word?)) anyway..... Into mine goes 1p 2p 5p 10p 20p and the odd £1. However I also have 2 farthings and a lucky 1p which has 3lions on it.

See a pattern here?

To be fair it never gets very full.

As for these coins being out of circulation, mine do go back in at somepoint unlike those that get thrown away but teenagers and people who cant be bothered with loose change.

Am I tight? I still pick up 1p if I see one

student100

Someone mentioned up there about why can't things be priced in round amounts... well, firstly, if you'd like to send all the extra pennies from your 99p purchases my way I'd be happy to spend them...
Secondly, if you're being MSE and spending on a (cashback) credit card then the loose change doesn't accumulate so much
Thirdly, if you do have loose change filling up your pocket, then the next time your spend comes to £1.58 (or whatever), hand the cashier £2 plus 8p in loose change, get 50p back, saving yourself a pocket full of shrapnel and the shop from having to get quite so many coppers from the bank. Everybody's happy!

:rolleyes:

jaybee

Oh! I love my various bottles and money boxes! When I'm desperate (and I mean desperate!) for a bit extra to cover the DDs or even food (!) I can have the satisfaction of counting out some cash to help me out. I do try not to do it too often though!.

Many years ago (and I mean a long time ago) my whiskey bottle containing £20 in 6d (I told you I was old!!!) paid for my very first holiday around Europe.

Murphy_The_Cat

Jaybee thats brilliant - i love the idea of £20 being enough to pay for a european touring holiday.:T


I've also got a piggy bank (actually a Sean the Sheep bank) that Mrs Cat & I each put £2.00 per week into. One year later we have £208.00 each year which is enough to hire a really nice cottage - in Feb 2006 we've got a converted farmhouse in Shropshire for a week.

MTC

jaybee

I guess it's all relative - £20 was a fortune all those years ago!!!!

egbe

I don't do this, but did have a collection of miscellaneous foreign change worth about £15 to £20 that I was glad to donate to one of the charity collections in banks when the Euro came in.

Several years ago, I was in Hungary and the man at the motorway service toilets took a couple of minutes to choose which coins he liked from amongst those I offered from a bag. I later counted 11 currencies.

There are dangers in keeping this money stashed for too long. On another trip abroad, a friend produced banknotes at a Dutch garage that were nearly 10 years out of date!

Good thing there are more credit-card transactions nowadays.

Anyone want some table-football tokens they can use hundreds of miles away?

System

elisebutt65 wrote:

Can't you get him a weekly pass??? That's what I do and usually saves me a quid as well.

No, have gone down that route, it costs me an extra £1.50 or so to get him a bus pass. It would be so much more convienient for me though.:mad: