Do You Have A Penny Jar?

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I have a mini paprika Pringles tub, and £4.47 in unspendable denominations. Will the bank try and SQUISH my head in the security shutters if I try to give it to them?

― Graham, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I put mine in a curious decorative ceramic item that was part of the furnishings in my flat when I moved into it. I counted the money the other day and it came to approx. £10.00. What do you mean unspendable? Can't you just spend it bit by bit?

― David, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham, if you don't want to be annhilated, ask the bank for money wrappers;>

― Nichole Graham, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dear god don't ask

― mark s, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate 1p's and 2p's, I have loads of them.

― jel --, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't british banks have change-counting machines?

― Josh, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a shoebox with a hole cut into it, I hate having change in my pocket so always leave 1s 2s and 5s on my chest of drawers, every now and then I'll sweep them into the shoebox, when it's full I shall change them and get myself a pressie.

Currently it's about two thirds full, last time I did this I got to about the same level and had 47 quid!

― chris, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have a penny jar, I have a silver jar. I use it for buying newspapers, train tickets and the like. I put all my non-pound coin change in it whenever I come back from somewhere - it works pretty well, especially when Barnes station isn't always attended and buying a ticket without the right change is a pain in the arse.

― Mark C, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a big bag under my bed, and dump any coins less than 20p into it. The most I've ever got from it was over £50, but my bank, being bastards (Halifax/BoS in case you were wondering), only let me pay in five bagfuls per time, so if I let it build up too much I have to go back and forth and back and forth for a week to get it all paid in.

― Caitlin, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just be glad you don't have fucking euro coins, I've about 300 1 cent pieces in a jar in my room and they're all worth nothing and absolutely tiny. The 2ps are ridiculous aswell.

― Ronan, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a tankard on my shelf, which must be about half full now. I'm off to count it up...

― Nick Southall, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My loose change just piles up on an endtable, and every couple of weeks or so I usually have enough to get something from the quite good sandwich place nearby for lunch. That works.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear...I have a gross amout of change. The bank is not gonna love me...and also an old 50p, an old 5p, a fake 20p, a Canadian 25C, and a US cent...as well as a Euro 96 £2 coin, which is big and clunky, and probably not legal tender.

― jel --, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Have a jar for twenty-p's. I got sixty quid out of mine last time I emptied tit.

― Matt, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Emptied tit"? Jesus, I hate Freud.

― Matt, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A big glass cookie jar - ones, twos and fives. Things got so desperate a few weeks back that I did the whole count'n'bag thing - £35 for the current account. An indication of how far things have slipped is that I could afford to leave a similarly-crammed change jar behind in the hall closet when I moved from my flat in Brixton 3 years ago. I left a camera too, but did go back for that.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when my house is filled with pennies, i toss it aside and buy a new one

― mark s, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you should build a house with those pennies, or at least a folly in yr garden.

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a Mr. Potato Head into the ass of which i insert all earnings from my record label. at present mr. potato head has more money than i have, but i remain untempted by the idea of stealing my own business funds.

― di, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

£2.79. I feel like a failure in the coppers-collecting state.

― Nick Southall, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I should start having one of these... I could put it in my Space Channel 5 lunchbox! However that is currently full of Buffy Top Trumps cards wot got GROG spilt on them at our halloween party oh well.

― Sarah, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a crappy Winnie the Pooh money tin from about 3000 years ago which I put coppers into if I can be bothered but lately I am so povvy that I give them to people in shops (yes I am the annoying woman who counts out the exact change ph34r me etc.)

― Emma, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No - I usually end up rooting around my room for spare pennies to make up the bus fare and consequently never have any.

― Anna, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This morning I raided mine because I am still without bank card and gave the bus driver lots of 2 and 5ps. He made a point of waiting at the stop for about a minute to teach me a lesson while he pretended to count it out. My mum is mystified why people end up collecting coppers. It's all right for her, she has a purse and lives in the countryside. I left my coppers box behind in the last two flats and my dad was horrified. He picks pennies up off the street. I don't know why he does cause he was always saying how his mum was penny wise, pound foolish, and all this penny-collecting certainly hasn't made him rich. I think he's trying to teach me the value of money or something. Why did they introduce a 1 eurocent coin? It's a totally stupid idea. I wish they'd get rid of 1 and 2ps all together. Who buys penny sweets these days?

― N., Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have a wooden piggy bank that I made when I was 11, but now we have a Japanese bag with a little baby no bigger than a 10p coin, crawling up the side.

We took it to Sainsbury's over the weekend. They have a change counting machine that charges something for the service - 13p per pound? So it isn't worth it for anything greater than 5p coins. YOu can choose to get the money pack , like a receipt, and the use it in the store, or you can donate it to charity. Anyway, it's well worth the expense of the machine as it is super fun to do and it makes lots of noise. We got £6 from doing it. Now I am obsessivly looking for 1p coins on the sidewalk so I can fill the bag up again ASAP.

― marianna, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone shared your view in Ireland N. however it seems removing 1 and 2ps would increase inflation. That was the reasoning anyway.

― , Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 1038 pennies.

― jel --, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love this question. I am curious that it is the menfolk that are the big fans of the DEPOSITING of STUFF into a THINGY ,like coinage. casually. I have only a few ex root-rats to back up my research but they really were average samples, let me tell you... no no, anyhoo theory continues wimmins CARRY the STUFF around until their pursey things bulge and they have to go to the hospital and then the baby is born. oh hang on maybe its because man bags really werent the go.

― porcinedepositreceptacle, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1039 pennies.

― jel --, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am curious that it is the menfolk that are the big fans of the DEPOSITING of STUFF into a THINGY

AHEM. As you may note from my entry, my stuff just sprawls around.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, do you mean like this?

http://www.cosimocavallaro.com/pics/full/cheese_room1.jpg

― Dan Perry, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one with a hand-painted sea-monster on it.

― Tom, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurrah! Dan finally confirms he is my subconscious!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, come on Ned. Like that line wasn't GUARANTEED to get me to say something gross and unoriginal. Actually, given the remarkable turn of this thread, I'm more impressed with Tom's candid admission that his has artwork on it. (This should go on the gossip thread, I think...)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to keep my change in a Gummi Dinosaur tin I rec'd for my 10th birthday. Of course, when I was 10, I had to eat the Gummi Dinosaurs before the coin-storage potential for this particular tin could be tapped. Fret not, tho - it only took me a couple of hours to drive those dinos to extinction.

Now, in my old age, I keep change in a utilitarian plastic change- sorter. Makes rolling the coins easy. I use the dino tin to store the rolling papers.

― Daver, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a big coca cola bottle. It won't ever be filled up with money. I am far too impatient. I emptied it a few years ago and bought a present for my parents. Now I am saving up for a wallet. har har

― cuba libre (nathalie), Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ok i am persuaded to fess up: in my work room, under the black IKEA desk, i have a foot square cardboard viking delivery box, in which are a biscuit tin, a large sardine tin, a small china bowl, a cubic small cardboard box AND a kind of plastic flower dish, all FULL of change, plus sundry change just loose in the big box, PLUS in my bedroom i have TWO tupperware boxes full of change, and er THAT'S IT!!

― mark "the s is for so Mr Sinkah do you consider this behaviour at all NORMAL hmm, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

plus also like handfuls loose on most surfaces here and there

― mark s, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't collect pennies, even though I am a compulsive penny picker- upper...every time I pass a fountain I flip a few in and make a wish.

I do have a quarter container, though (I need quarters to do laundry).

― j.lu, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah! The secret treasure of Sinker mansions!

― jel --, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tin no-tin no-change change pie pies?

― geeta, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one with the Power Puff Girls on it.

― bnw, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dans post; laugh! I nearly came a cropper. (I hope aussie colloqialism isnt too far south for you)

― jizzica, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(yes I am the annoying woman who counts out the exact change ph34r me etc.)

Emma, meet your American counterpart! I've been known to roll up pennies, wrap them up, and actually walk to the bank (a mile away) to afford a sandwich....

Dan, you are sad and twisted....;>

― Nichole Graham, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jel, gossip is mark s himself is made of gold.

― Graham, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OKay RIGHT you Americans tell me this how on EARTH do you roll up pennies? They are coins! They are not really roll-able! I haf seen this in MOVIES too! Are you all making it up??

― Sarah, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they are round = they roll

― RickyT, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-b-b-but you would not HAF a roll of pennies!!! You can haf a SPRING roll or an ARTIC roll or a FORWARDS roll but no rolls of pennies!!!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's something to do with atmospheric conditions. Or aren't American small coins made of Nickel or some lighter metal, whereas UK coins are copper. (I'm showing up my none scientific education here aren't I?)

― jel --, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rolling coins is EASY when you do not have scary mentalist hexagonal coins like you all do! and those creepy two-color 2 pound coins that look like they have chocolate in them! $3 and it's a coin! unbelievable! what is with the immense variation in size of scary UK coins? and those 1 pound coins - they're heavy! rolling UK coins would require enough brainpower to think in 7 dimensions, not to mention some serious origami skillZor

― geeta, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b-B-B-BUT how do you roll them ANYWAY?! In cotton wool!? In pastry?!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bah when those bloated Eurocats have their way with our wonderful and historic English pounds there will be no more 'creepy' £2 coins, only dumbed down, uniform, Europennies. Oh woe for our glorious heritage etc. etc.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the way to the tube this morning I passed Tesco's and there were TONS (nearly) of pennies on the floor, it was a real effort to leave them there but whereas picking up one penny can be excused (it's for luck, innit?), picking up several would make me look like a mentalist bag lady.

― Emma, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

There are cheap ways to count the pennies in your coin jar. Anyone looking for cheap or free coin counting machines (read NON-Coinstar), we have put together a web site, www.theunderstory.com, which lists by state banks and institutions which count coins for 5% or less (many free). Many are self service machines, some are just cheap or free teller coin count services. You might be pleasantly surprised at finding a bank or credit union near you which won't charge you. Good luck!

― Karl Manburg, Friday, 6 December 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

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