Saving in a Whisky bottle

klondyke

madfrenchgirl wrote:

Bendypops,

Also, why cant the shops price things in a round way? Instead of 99p, lets be honest and price it a pounds (or more MSE like: 90p). it is because of those stupid prices that we end up with the loose change!

They say (don't ask who and whether urban myth) that the reason for prices ending in 99, is to help ensure that transactions actually go through the till, so that change has to be given, as many people tender whole pounds. Otherwise, it is less noticeable if till operator simply pockets these pounds.

Still I help out in a charity shop, where all prices end in 99. The majority of customers put the odd penny in the donation box - and we don't pay VAT on donations!

Murphy_The_Cat

Hurray _ I've managed to fill the bottle again :beer::beer:

The first bottle full I banked for some lovely interest and I'm adding this bottles worth to buy a monster LCD HDTV. OH I am one happy moggy cat.

& all for a few bits of change :j

wecanhelpu

A friend of mine used to run a mobile burger van and every day would put all his change into an old milk churn and only banked his notes.
After 2 years of doing this, he got one of his employees to count and bag it all and ended up with........................








....................£18,000

Now that is a serious amount of change!

cundall

wecanhelpu wrote: »

After 2 years of doing this, he got one of his employees to count and bag it all and ended up with........................
....................£18,000

Now that is a serious amount of change!

Damn!..

The problem i have is that if i save the money when i go out on a night out i end up taking the change with me so i don't save anything

McSaver

wecanhelpu wrote: »

A friend of mine used to run a mobile burger van and every day would put all his change into an old milk churn and only banked his notes.
After 2 years of doing this, he got one of his employees to count and bag it all and ended up with........................








....................£18,000

Now that is a serious amount of change!

And he would of lost upto £1,000 in interest havent he decided to put those notes in an bank rather than that bag. None the less thats still a good way of saving without being able to touch i, because even sitting in the bank money can easily be spent.

wecanhelpu

and the taxman would have wanted a share if he had put it through his accounts.

lewt

i have a massive coke bottle and its about a 3rd full i was putting all change in thee but when i had to get the £1 and £2 coins out coz i was skint i thought i better just leave them out. and put everything else in. its a little beigger than a wisky bottle so im hoping for a grand when its full.

baxgttdi

not in the same league as 18,000 :eek: but I decided to join the change jar challenge last night, went looking for a jar to store stuff in with a vague memory of having one in the back of a cupboard. Found and it and was well pleased to find £48 in change :j. It really does all add up...no idea how i forgot it was there though