Plus Ca Change!

[Barmaid]

Last night we dealt with the change bottle in the kitchen, the change pot in the bedroom and the change jar in the utility. So far

£2 - £12
£1 - £97
50p - £70
20p - £200 (yes a whopping £200)
10p - £35 (and still about twice as much to still count)
5p - £40 (and about 3 x as much to count)
2p - £27
1p - cant bear counting it

So that's Christmas sorted then........... ;)

Dig out your change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ummmm]

I have a water cooler bottle that I use to collect change.

How are you going to change it? Banks only take a certain amount per day now.

[Psybbo]

Well done enjoy, ours usually pays the hotel bill in September. Remember Xmas treats for ASBO et al x

[Sqad]

Fooled me for a time.......then it suddenly came to me......Plus Ca Change is French for "Dig out your change"

See.....education and all that!

[Barmaid]

I aint daft, I'm going round the shop later to have a word with the manager. He'll take it - he has to pay for his coins. If he swaps my coins (bagged properly in bank bags) for notes it costs him nothing and it prevents me having to take a trip to the bank.

[Barmaid]

I see your tongue was firmly in your cheek, Sqad. Just as mine was.

[ummmm]

That's what I do.

[penelope2]

Some NatWest branches have 'change machines', just pour the money in, it counts it and then credits the amount to your account.

[Barmaid]

I could do that Penelope, but I cant possibly carry it all. And town is a good car ride away (which at this time of year is just hideous). I'll just whip it round the local shop in dribs and drabs rather than killing myself lugging about 4 stones' worth of change into town. I was just amazed at how much there was in there!

[BlueToffee]

Penelope, they also charge yo a percentage for doing it.

I too collect loose change, the bank I use, TSB always takes it all without question.

[Barmaid]

Crikey, I didnt realise the banks charged. That makes me more convinced that the local shop is the way forwards!

[BlueToffee]

Try your local pub Barmaid, they're usually grateful for change, particularly this time of year.

[penelope2]

Blue Toffee, hate to disagree with you, but they don't charge (NatWest that is), if you are an account holder.

[BlueToffee]

My apologies Penelope, I thought they did.

[wendilla]

I start again in January in one of these tins you can't get into .i average £3 each week and the odd coins just £2. £1 and 50p .this year it had £210 . "

[wendilla]

Oh and took them to the bookies as they have to pay for change.

[pussnboots]

Just cashed my lot in, £35 at Halifax, £40 behind bar at the club, £25 at post office, I put all the copper in the cash machine thingy in Morrisons, got £21.53p. It's all gone now, stocked up on wine, rum, vodka, gin, luvverly jubberly.

[askyourgran]

I have two piggy banks which all our change goes into. When they are full my daughter and granddaughter counts it up, they changed the last lot about £45 at the supermarket coinstar when they did their shopping.

[Zacs-Master]

Presumable you were saving for a plus c'est pareil day (well it sounds a bit like rain)

[lady-janine]

is this the start of the end BM?