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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    naughtyvicar wrote:
    Recommend getting a 5 litre water bottle from Tesco (other shops are available) and when it's gone, dump all your loose change in there. We were a bit skint a few years back and had to empty ours guessing it should have at least £150 in it, and there was over £700 in there. We were landed! I do chuck silver in as well, and the odd £2 coin

    Or you just use the coppers as they arrive by giving the correct amount of money and have £700 more in your bank account in the first place.
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  • naughtyvicar
    naughtyvicar Posts: 22
    Never gonna happen....the weight of the extra coin in my trousers will make holes in the pockets, and then I will have to buy either new trousers or attempt a repair on the pockets.....this will negate any interest earned by it being in the bank.
  • mpatts
    mpatts Posts: 1,010
    They are useless, and should be out there catching REAL criminals rather than stopping me from riding through red lights.
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  • Coach H
    Coach H Posts: 1,092
    daviesee wrote:
    So. Coppers. Are they worth keeping?

    I mean the coins.
    As DDD would say, discuss.....

    Of course they are. Why, because the humble penny is part of British history.

    Where will it end, knocking down the Tower of London to build a Tesco Extra? :roll:
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Coach H wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    So. Coppers. Are they worth keeping?

    I mean the coins.
    As DDD would say, discuss.....

    Of course they are. Why, because the humble penny is part of British history.

    Where will it end, knocking down the Tower of London to build a Tesco Extra? :roll:
    No need to knock it down. Turn it into a Wetherspoons.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • jimothy78
    jimothy78 Posts: 1,407
    Yep - my particular method is to empty my wallet of all coppers (and 5ps actually) and give them to my 3-year-old as pocket money - she doens't really understand the value of things yet, but loves putting the coins one by one into her piggy bank and then when it's full we take it to one of those automated coin counters which she also loves feeding the coins into. Funds then either get paid into her savings account or spent on a treat for her (depending on the location of the machine).
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,741
    don't use the automated coin machines, they skim a percentage - get coin bags and teach her to fill them up (also educational) and take her to the bank (educational) to pay them in and then buy a toy and have some left over in her account - hmmm I need to do this with my 3yr old....
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  • stu-bim
    stu-bim Posts: 384
    team47b wrote:
    As it has been proven to me that everything is 99p in the UK, then clearly you need a seperete (sic) 99p coin.

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  • jimothy78
    jimothy78 Posts: 1,407
    edhornby wrote:
    don't use the automated coin machines, they skim a percentage
    The ones in shops do, I know, but the ones in banks don't (at least, not the one I use)

    Anyway, I'm happy to pay 8p in the pound for the time saved counting out all the pennies into those little bags - wouldn't use the machines for anything bigger than 5p denominations, though ;)

    I agree with your point about the educational value, and not teaching my daughter to always take the easy option is maybe something i should think about :oops:
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,869
    Not exactly coppers, but I always liked thrupenny bits.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 16,004
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Not exactly coppers, but I always liked thrupenny bits.


    We have the Big Girls thread on BB, but the Mods won't let us post threpennies. :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    edhornby wrote:
    don't use the automated coin machines, they skim a percentage - get coin bags and teach her to fill them up (also educational) and take her to the bank (educational) to pay them in and then buy a toy and have some left over in her account - hmmm I need to do this with my 3yr old....

    Not the ones in Metrobank - 0 charge.

    As for TSB - its the part Lloyds have to sell as part of the receiving gov't bail out. Its a pre-packaged, ready to go retail bank with its own set of systems which is now wholly re-branded and separated. It is affectionally referred to as 'divestco' and the ongoing project as Project Verde, about which the public is aware:

    http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media ... Update.pdf

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