But I never can be arsed paying with change, so it just rattles around my car. Putting it in the pig means every couple of months it miraculously turns into a tenner!
I'm sure you could find a pretty purse in which to put your lady change?
But you have to PAY for the privilege? Why don't you just use the spare change to buy things? It's MONEY! It's what you get up early in the morning for to go and earn. Why give it to a machine that charges you to sort it? Mad!
We had a jar of coppers which we'd been adding to for years. Just 1ps and 2ps and the odd 5p.
Took it all to Sainsburys juat before last Christmas and we got about £25 which was great because it was never going to get changed up otherwise.
We had a jar of coppers which we'd been adding to for years. Just 1ps and 2ps and the odd 5p.
Took it all to Sainsburys juat before last Christmas and we got about £25 which was great because it was never going to get changed up otherwise.
Probably would've taken you an hour to sort it, and listening to The Archers or something while doing it, the time would've gone in no time! Still, if you want to line Coinstar's pockets, that's up to you!
When I worked in a shop as long as it wasn't mega busy I was more than happy to accept a load of coppers or loose change as half the time i'd be running low.
In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
If the £10 Bank Of England note is not legal tender in Scotland.Then why have i used a cash macine in Glasgow City Centre & it has given me a Bank Of England £10 or £20 note & i have been able to use it no problem?
If the £10 Bank Of England note is not legal tender in Scotland.Then why have i used a cash macine in Glasgow City Centre & it has given me a Bank Of England £10 or £20 note & i have been able to use it no problem?
English money is generally accepted in Scotland and vice versa, but that doesn't make it legal tender.
If the £10 Bank Of England note is not legal tender in Scotland.Then why have i used a cash macine in Glasgow City Centre & it has given me a Bank Of England £10 or £20 note & i have been able to use it no problem?
Again, this is the difference between legal tender and what is accepted in shops. Shopkeepers in Scotland choose to accept English bank notes - that does not mean they are legal tender.
I'm amazed people use those machines which count your change but charge a fee. Surely even if someone has £20 or £30 worth it isn't too onerous a task to do the job yourself. I am sure I would find the experience of counting my own money extremely pleasurable - perhaps just a little too much so!
I was once shopping in Morrisons and the woman in front of me had about £15 worth of stuff rung up, then brought out plastic bags full of 10p pieces to pay, which the cashier had to count! It took ages. The cashier and the chap behind me and myself did have a good laugh about it after she had gone - fortunately we hadn't been in too much of a hurry and it was quite bizarre to watch all this money being produced, but it might have been more diplomatic for her to stagger her disposal of all this loose change over several visits rather than do it all at once.
Anyway I am in a good mood this afternoon because I went out for a walk earlier and found a £1 coin lying in the street.
I'm amazed people use those machines which count your change but charge a fee. Surely even if someone has £20 or £30 worth it isn't too onerous a task to do the job yourself.
I use them simply because of the convenience. I don't mind counting it myself but I'm always at work when the banks are open (and like a lie-in on a Saturday) so getting it changed isn't that easy.
I never have much change, so the 8% fee doesn't exactly cost me a fortune - if I was changing hundreds of pounds then I probably wouldn't do it!
I'm amazed people use those machines which count your change but charge a fee. Surely even if someone has £20 or £30 worth it isn't too onerous a task to do the job yourself. I am sure I would find the experience of counting my own money extremely pleasurable - perhaps just a little too much so!
As someone who helped count £4,000 of charity collection over Christmas on our kitchen table in every denomination we would love a counting machine! But...
- We only need it for 4 weeks in the year
- Machines in shops take a cut, reducing the money we can give to good causes
- Even if a bank offered to let us a counting machine then there is the added hassle of walking through town after each collection with fully laiden collection tins. We did 20 odd collection rounds in the build up to Christmas. I doubt a bank would allow this though
Even counting a small amount of money, especially copper makes your hands very dirty and horrible.
As someone who helped count £4,000 of charity collection over Christmas on our kitchen table in every denomination we would love a counting machine! But...
- We only need it for 4 weeks in the year
- Machines in shops take a cut, reducing the money we can give to good causes
- Even if a bank offered to let us a counting machine then there is the added hassle of walking through town after each collection with fully laiden collection tins. We did 20 odd collection rounds in the build up to Christmas. I doubt a bank would allow this though
Even counting a small amount of money, especially copper makes your hands very dirty and horrible.
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Otherwise take your change to the bank
How was it?
We had a jar of coppers which we'd been adding to for years. Just 1ps and 2ps and the odd 5p.
Took it all to Sainsburys juat before last Christmas and we got about £25 which was great because it was never going to get changed up otherwise.
Did you have to remortgage to pay for yours?
But by then you'll be 80 and possibly unable to type.
Sorry to OP to go so off topic.
Now, back to change...
Isn't it time we got rid of the 2p? Pointless these days.
If the £10 Bank Of England note is not legal tender in Scotland.Then why have i used a cash macine in Glasgow City Centre & it has given me a Bank Of England £10 or £20 note & i have been able to use it no problem?
Again, this is the difference between legal tender and what is accepted in shops. Shopkeepers in Scotland choose to accept English bank notes - that does not mean they are legal tender.
I was once shopping in Morrisons and the woman in front of me had about £15 worth of stuff rung up, then brought out plastic bags full of 10p pieces to pay, which the cashier had to count! It took ages. The cashier and the chap behind me and myself did have a good laugh about it after she had gone - fortunately we hadn't been in too much of a hurry and it was quite bizarre to watch all this money being produced, but it might have been more diplomatic for her to stagger her disposal of all this loose change over several visits rather than do it all at once.
Anyway I am in a good mood this afternoon because I went out for a walk earlier and found a £1 coin lying in the street.
I use them simply because of the convenience. I don't mind counting it myself but I'm always at work when the banks are open (and like a lie-in on a Saturday) so getting it changed isn't that easy.
I never have much change, so the 8% fee doesn't exactly cost me a fortune - if I was changing hundreds of pounds then I probably wouldn't do it!
i think this too.
- We only need it for 4 weeks in the year
- Machines in shops take a cut, reducing the money we can give to good causes
- Even if a bank offered to let us a counting machine then there is the added hassle of walking through town after each collection with fully laiden collection tins. We did 20 odd collection rounds in the build up to Christmas. I doubt a bank would allow this though
Even counting a small amount of money, especially copper makes your hands very dirty and horrible.