Lately, over the last few weeks, I've been getting annoyed by having change in my pockets. No idea why, but I've got in the habit of just chucking it all in a jar every night.
Anyway, I found myself out of cash and I object to using the cash machine in the shop next door (it's one of those "£1.99 charge every time" ones), so I thought I'd just raid the jar and see if there was enough for something decent for lunch, given that tonight's shopping night (yay).
There seemed to be an awful lot of £1 and 50p coins in there when I tipped it out, so I thought I'd count 'em up.
£91.50, not counting all the 20p-and-smaller coins! I'd guess there's probably another £30 or £40 in there from those. I'm amazed at the sheer amount of money that I hadn't noticed going in there.
Anybody else do this?
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I carried on doing it here and right now I'm due for a count-up, there's plenty in there by now - I just can't be bothered .
I raid it for the weekly work lotto contribution, and Mrs. R. dives in for bus money sometimes. It's pretty handy.
Cash it in every 6 months or so. Just did mine recently, which has paid for my flights to go to Paris for the Tour de France.
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At home I keep a change drawer in the hall and every so often get £20 out of it. The coppers get given in bulk to charity every so often (charities can deposit more coppers in the bank than other groups)