How much change do you carry around?

All of it.

Yeah, ditto, whatever I have. It will rarely exceed £5, because then it will be a note, but anything up to that.

I remember there being a puzzler when I was young about what combination of coins would you have to carry in order to give someone whatever amount of money they requested up to a dollar. It seems like it would be three quarters, two dimes, a nickel, and four pennies, but there's always a twist to those puzzlers so maybe not. Google is not helping me. Also this stuff doesn't translate to UK money, does it?

I'm always carrying too many pennies.

i dont carry change.

oh I know! The challenge was to carry exactly 99c in change (my example went up to $1.04. So it works if you have three quarters, a dime, two nickels, and four pennies.

You can all relax now.

i carry one change of skivvies, and one change of socks.

because you never know.

also, b/c of this, my pockets are bulging. oh, how they bulge.

The UK equivalent: one 50p, one 20p, two 10p, one 5p, one 2p, 2 1p.

I keep change in my backpack when I'm on campus, in case I want something from a vending machine and they're being predictably wanky about bills. Other than that, zip.

50c pieces and larger (in denomination not size). everything else goes in my 'vending machine fund' (moneybox)

None. No sales tax where I'm from, and if I get some I give it to hobos.

Sheesh -- I was riding the Dallas Area Rapid Transit today, only had a twenty dollar bill and the assortment of change listed above, so decided to chance riding sans ticket. Got caught. But she just told me to buy a ticket at the next stop instead of issuing me a citation. So I'm now a proud owner of 17 dollar coins that will produce a look of either confusion or irritance on the face of every clerk I try to pawn them off on over the course of the next week.

I always get rid of coins lower than 50p, and then get pissed off that I have to use 50ps/pound coins in payphones.

I take out all the quarters and save them for laundry. I save the rest for when I want to pay for something with exact change.

I have the following:

One (1) golden dollar coin
Seven (7) quarters
Ten (10) dimes
Three (3) nickels
Nine (9) pennies

This adds up to $3.99 in change, if my quick calculations are correct. And I've been trying to get rid of my pennies, but it seems as though every time I go to pay for something, it usually ends up being something divisible by five or ten (leaving nothing in the remainder) and thus isn't really worth using any pennies.

This isn't really unusual, btw. I'm actually kinda used to carrying around anywhere from $3.00 in change to $7.00 in change. Don't ask me how or why; it's just how things work out.

None, unless I just got change from a purchase. There's a shitload in my room and in my car, though. I wait until I have enough for a DQ Blizzard or some such thing.

Yeah, see, that's what I do. (Not a DQ Blizzard necessarily, usually Emergency Cigarettes.) Quarters for laundry, dimes and nickels for vending machines or Emergency Cigarettes, pennies for the shotgun to keep trick-or-treaters the hell outta my yard.

My girlfriend keeps change in her wallet thing in her purse, though (I don't even carry a wallet!), and she's always got exact change for everything, so it keeps throwing me off cause it means piles of coinage aren't accumulating on the table the way God intended.

Don't have a wallet? Do you have a driver's license? Credit cards?
My friend didn't have a wallet until recently. Just had a huge unorganized wad of all the important things that he couldn't lose in his front pocket. We'd get carded somewhere and he'd whip out his, um, wad and pieces of paper and plastic would come flying out. I teased him enough about being a disheveld stoner that he finally broke down and bought one.

I don't drive. I'll get around to getting a license some day :)

Lemme see what it's got in its pocketses ... library card, student ID, two debit cards, credit card, state ID. I keep that and paper money and a Manny Ramirez baseball card in my right pocket; smokes and lighter and plastic frog in my left[1]. It's quicker than taking out a wallet and flipping through it! The IDs don't have raised lettering, and the credit/debit cards do, so I usually get the correct card out on the first try.

[1] (Yes, I'm actually eleven.)