We collect our loose change and re-use the £1 coins, the 50p, and a few 20p (for public toilets). The remainder are put into a glass jar until eventually they are put through a supermarket change machine for store credit.
But I've noticed the volume of our loose change has reduced over the years as we use credit cards for most things. It's becoming nostalgic to encounter a shop or stall that only accepts cash.
Way back in the 1990s, I remember students using a vending machine in the college canteen and not bothering to pick up their change from the dispenser. The canteen lady got quite irate, and said they didn't understand the value of money, and how hard it was to get and keep it. I suppose for them - first part-time jobs, etc. - it was a form of conspicuous consumption. And the girls didn't like coins because it spoilt the line of their jeans.
Sam - we are virtually coin-free too, apart from pound coins kept for parking just in case. Picking up coins from a vending machine would probably be an oldie frugality habit now. Don't have a use for them but...
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We collect our loose change and re-use the £1 coins, the 50p, and a few 20p (for public toilets). The remainder are put into a glass jar until eventually they are put through a supermarket change machine for store credit.
But I've noticed the volume of our loose change has reduced over the years as we use credit cards for most things. It's becoming nostalgic to encounter a shop or stall that only accepts cash.
I keep it in a bag in my car for parking and small transactions like coffee on the go.
Cheers Yet Another Chris
DJ - we hardly use coins at all. Pound coins in case we need them for car parks and that's about it. I have an old halfpenny though.
Chris - that's what we do, but it's all pound coins.
I hardly ever see coins these days.
Way back in the 1990s, I remember students using a vending machine in the college canteen and not bothering to pick up their change from the dispenser. The canteen lady got quite irate, and said they didn't understand the value of money, and how hard it was to get and keep it. I suppose for them - first part-time jobs, etc. - it was a form of conspicuous consumption. And the girls didn't like coins because it spoilt the line of their jeans.
Sam - we are virtually coin-free too, apart from pound coins kept for parking just in case. Picking up coins from a vending machine would probably be an oldie frugality habit now. Don't have a use for them but...
Take a drill to them - free washers!
dearieme - Mrs H has a threepenny bit with a hole drilled through which she attaches to her car key ring so she knows it's her car key not mine.
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