Does small change mount up for you?

[metalicaster]

I just got back from the supermarket. I made it my mission to get rid of my loose change this week and about managed it.

We don’t really use cash often enough to get rid of any change so it just mounts up. Cashless society seems really to mean small change society: never a big note, only coins, heaps of coins.

I paid £121.89 in bagged change. I was a little doubtful I could offload it all in one go; they didn’t have to accept such an awkward form of payment, but I turned on the charm and wasn’t holding up a line. (and maybe they needed the change)

Lemme tell ya, that much money is damn heavy to carry around mostly in small change. I used the trolley for the money as well as the stuff.

That’s all the legal tender gone. We’re just left with foreign or obsolete oddments of only theoretical value. Those 1983-2017 £1 coins (not pictured) are a real nuisance.

 

[brookdalebill]

Nope.
I use every nickel I earn as I earn it.
Don't ask me for financial advice, either.
If I offer it, don't take it!

 

[Chiogtr4x]

I keep and use a ton of change in my car
( door handle pocket, always driving/ Drive-thrus...)
I also keep a zip lock baggie to 'pack rat' quarters.

Also, I take gig tip money ( just the $1 bills) and keep them in a baggie, 'till I have a bunch to deposit at the ATM

 

[WireLine]

Coins are collected in an old coffee can. Cash ends up in a home safe or in the bank. It’s all good

 

[Mjark]

Small change got rained on
with his own .38

 

[Toto'sDad]

Nope.
I use every nickel I earn as I earn it.
Don't ask me for financial advice, either.
If I offer it, don't take it!

My dear departed sis in law said this about money: It ain't no good 'til you spend it!

 

[ReverendRevolver]

I don't use cash often, my change goes into my children's possession.
Small bills add up in the wallet and eventually go to something kid related, be it vending machine, school stuff, or tooth fairy visits.

If I use cash in the car, there's a being that lives in the creases of the seats. It eats loose change.

 

[Sparky2]

I have a large glass beer mug that I collect my coins in.

Once a year I take them to the credit union (after putting them in the proper paper sleeves) and deposit them.

I do keep the odd coins from my many years of running around this planet.

Mexican Pesos.
Iraqi Dinar.
Belgian Francs.
West German Deutschmarks and Pfennigs.
East German Marks der DDR.
Soviet Rubles.
The list goes on and on.

 

[RodeoTex]

Back when I used cash a lot my coinage usually bought new a new pair of work boots and a new weed eater each year, minus all the quarters I had already pilfered for car washes.

 

[Milspec]

Every birthday I take my spare change jar to the bank. It normally averages about $550, I use to fund my birthday present.

 

[Fendereedo]

My money gets robbed from my pockets and wallet by my wife and sons!!

 

[BigDaddyLH]

People use cash?!

 

[moosie]

Once every few years I roll 'em up and head to the bank to change the rolls for greenbacks.

The trips are getting more rare, though, as most payments are digital.

Too bad, I like the feel of cash. It's just not nearly as convenient...

 

[metalicaster]

People use cash?!

We're almost entirely online and cashless here. My bank doesn't even have any physical branches, hence difficulty getting rid of the stuff. ATMs, if you can find one, only dispense notes; you can't pay money into an account with one. Going to places in person for 'bureaucracy' is just not a thing any more.

To use cash in the store I had to go to the special checkout right at the end, with a human and everything; the other open ones were all 'card only' and the rest were closed. There wasn't a line behind me so it seems nobody else does. It's probably been years since I used cash to buy groceries.

 

[Kandinskyesque]

We still need cash for the odd thing, for example the local plumber changed a syphon in our toilet a month ago and charged me £40 cash or £50 if it was bank transfer, so we keep a float of £300 in a cash box.
Some of the stalls at the farmer's markets like the "nudge-nudge wink-wink" of cash.
We're 2 miles from the nearest ATM.

My loose change below £1 goes in a jar which gets cashed at the Post Office about every second year.
£1 coins are important currency (Golden Pennies) when you've got 4 grandkids who need bribing.

 

[metalicaster]

We're 2 miles from the nearest ATM.

My loose change below £1 goes in a jar which gets cashed at the Post Office about every second year.
£1 coins are important currency (Golden Pennies) when you've got 4 grandkids who need bribing.

I don't know where our nearest is now. There were a couple on the outside of each bank on the high street, but the last one closed a couple of years ago. None now. I think I could get cash over the counter in the post office in a pinch, but I've never needed to.

You do give me a great idea though. I have a nephew who'd be fascinated by some exotic American money...

 

[trev333]

Many banks have coin deposit machines here which sort a load of coins and deposit the value into your account... no need to bag/roll them up into amounts, they break them all out and run them through the machine together... or weigh them when they are all the same value coins....

I can still give shop staff those extra coins to make change easier or get whole notes back... it's handy to have a few coins with you.... or you end up bringing more home in change..

 

[dented]

I might have gotten less than a dollar in change in the last year. I mostly keep cash just for tip money.

 

[telleutelleme]

My wife and I had a huge vase full of change. She separated it into coin types. I have yet to take them to the change machine at the grocery store. Decades of dumping change it is probably a good sum. I keep some change in the truck and always a quarter for the cart at ALDI. I don't get much change anymore.

 

[drmordo]

For many years, I would put all my change in a empty 1.5L rum bottle. When it was full, the ex and I would use it to help fund something fun. It pretty much always added up to around $400 when it was full.

However, for the last several years, I've used a card almost exclusively, so the bottle has been almost empty for a looooong time.