What do you do with all your small change?

Rb

Cormic wrote: »

I have a jar in work and at home. Every so often I get wifey to change it for some proper money.

How do you know she won't take a cut of it for herself?

Duggy747

I eat mine, saves me trouble of lugging it around in me back pockets.

Or, when I'm not hungry, I spend my change eventually so I always have some in my back pockets. Real coins in one pocket, coppers in the other.

javaboy

rb_ie wrote: »

How do you know she won't take a cut of it for herself?

The severed ex-wifey heads mounted on the wall should be deterrent enough.

RobertFoster

arse..biscuits wrote: »

I count out 25c each day in 1c and 2c's and buy a freddo bar after lunch. The girl see's me coming and laughs

Wow, freddo bars are 25c now? In my day they were only 10p! *hobbles off*

Ruu wrote: »

Have a large coke bottle money bank for it (3 ft tall or so). It'll be a while until its full.

I've a large coke bottle too. It's 60cm in height, and only 15cm full and the bottom's already cracking under the weight of the change. I counted it over a year ago and I was surprised to find €650 in it :eek: I dunno if I'll ever fill it, but I've fun counting it every-so-often.

star-pants

I have a winnie the pooh money box, when that's full - stuff goes on my bedside locker, when *that's* full, I get money bags to sort out the change. Although most 50c / 20c go in my car for tolls.

Nuts. Only €18 but thats mostly in 5c coins. Didn't bother counting the 1s and 2s. They're just irritating.

Rb

javaboy wrote: »

The severed ex-wifey heads mounted on the wall should be deterrent enough.

heh heh

Rb

Deleted User wrote: »

Nuts. Only €18 but thats mostly in 5c coins. Didn't bother counting the 1s and 2s. They're just irritating.

Yeah those 1 and 2 cent coins are a bollocks alright

I'd probably have a lot more, but ever since Bus Eireann raised the prices to €1.45 around Galway, my coin jar gets pillaged most days.

I used to just spend it on bus fair or whathaveyou but I've been sticking it in a duck (box) lately.

NotMe

Moonbaby wrote: »

I just spend all my coins.

I don't understand how and why people have a problem doing that.

Pocket real-estate is limited! What with the wallet, phone, keys, mp3-player, etc. I don't want to be carrying around a load of coins aswell so I dump them out of my wallet when I get home.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9714/monehrt5.jpg

I use them for bus fares occasionally.. that's about it.

StonedParadoX

i had about 500 euros in my water cooler which i collected for about 6 months and now its spent on drugs and a trip to amsterdam and im not happy about seeing it emtpy

me and 2 other mates spent half the night counting half it up before we got bored and gave up

i hate those machines that take 12.5% of the cash ..its crap
and then the banks EXPECT YOU!!! to put into bags for THEM

**** that i say

the person who said they put it in the Credit union every so often
do they except loose change?


and SECONDLY i have a question
if u saw a lad sitting on a chair with a sign saying i would like your copppers if u got any would u give him them?
cuz iv been thinkin about doin this for a long long while

Jigsaw

I melt my loose change down when I have enough to make a big sword with.

nice1franko

Jigsaw wrote: »

I melt my loose change down when I have enough to make a big sword with.

+1

nlgbbbblth

StonedParadoX wrote: »

and then the banks EXPECT YOU!!! to put into bags for THEM

**** that i say

if your coin wasn't bagged correctly then the bank staff would spend ages counting it manually, thereby holding up everyone behind you in the queue.

they cannot weigh mixed coin.

remember full bags only.
follow the demonimation amounts written on the bags.

that way it's easier for everyone.

i.e.
Mr A comes in looking for a bag of €2 coins.
No problem, I just took one in earlier.

If it were incomplete or mixed, more time would be wasted trying to make up a proper one for Mr A.

The more I think about it, Moonboy has the right idea.

Just spend it. You'll get rid of it quickly enough if you take a few seconds to sort out the coin in your pocket. As opposed to just taking the easy option and handing over a note which perpetuates the cycle of misery even more.

StonedParadoX

hmm

i wasnt actually being serious on that part

im more serious about the grafton street bit

nlgbbbblth

StonedParadoX wrote: »

hmm

i wasnt actually being serious on that part

im more serious about the grafton street bit

do you want to skin up?

smoke a bowl?

pass the bong?

give / take a blowback?

rainbowtrout

I usually throw it into a jar on the windowsill, it got raided recently so there's probably only about €20 in it. On very poor months I've raided it to use at the self service checkout in tesco. They take all coins but it does annoy the other people in the queue seeing you chuck in a whole load of change.

StonedParadoX

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

do you want to skin up?

smoke a bowl?

pass the bong?

give / take a blowback?

sure thing man

meet me on grafton street beside hmv ill have a sign saying NLGBBBLTH!
while i load up the bong you'll gimmie your pennies
hows that for a deal

btw nothing illegal will happen or

cython

I just use the self service tills in tesco to count them. Just keep plugging in the shrapnel until either there's enough there to cover the cost, or I have only larger stuff left

5starpool

i give it to my mother, usually €100 every 6 months or so. Slowly paying back my shildhood dependence. She only needs to live to 340 to be paid back in full I reckon.

javaboy

5starpool wrote: »

i give it to my mother, usually €100 every 6 months or so. Slowly paying back my shildhood dependence. She only needs to live to 340 to be paid back in full I reckon.

We probably won't be using cash in about 50 years and hence there won't be any spare change so the joke's on her!

allabouteve

Charity boxes at tills usually, non-religious ones.

kmart6

javaboy wrote: »

We probably won't be using cash in about 50 years and hence there won't be any spare change so the joke's on her!

We'll just have countless payment cards with 1c,2c 5c...etc left lying around instead!

AckwelFoley

I bring pocket fulls of them to a game and throw them at football players.