1p and 2p

Maybe things will become cheaper?

£1.95 instead of £1.99

There's a .9p at my local garage

2p got to go

1p must stay

any betting ?

Charitys would lose millions if they are scrapped.

Good point  sica

I've piles of them. I like to lie on the piles and pretend I'm a sort of Jeremey Kyle dragon.

I have a 4 litre bottle full of them, do banks accept them, if not where do you take them

actually 5 litre, Tesco Mountain spring, about 10 years old, 75% full, used to fill up quickly back in the day then I started to use contactless for everything.

Banks take them, bag em and weigh em OR some banks have machines you just pour them in and they count them out and give you the value, but take a cut for the service.
I think thats' what I'll do with mine, if the % take isn't too high, save hassle.

(Banks give out labelled poly bags to put the money in, I don't think they like turnng up with 3kg of mixed coppers in an Iceland bag)

Most banks will take £20 at a time (bagged) into your account, or you could take em to Asda,Sainsbury’s eat and be charged 9% ..crooks

Eat? Sorry ect

Iceland! surely i have presented a more upmarket image on here than that, well slightly more uprmarket, I'm stricty a Tesco and Sainsbury's man.

I'd guess there's about £20 there.

You could put a handful in a sock and sell 'em to the local yoof gang members

Who on earth charges money to count it? Here in Germany we have atm machines that will take the coins, count them, and deposit them into your account right there. All you have to do is bring your money to the atm machine. Banks without a counting machine will take your coins and seal them in front of you. A day or two later the money is in your account. Zero charges.

Well we all KNEW the germans are very good at counting certain low value copper coins and how it cheers people up.
Thus the term "two-tonic efficiency".

we filled a gollon whisky bottle with pennies, i think we had about £60
then filled it with 2ps , just out of change...got slightly less

got it almost full of 5ps now, has taken ages, must be 300-400 quid when full.


supermarkets have them machines that take a cut..rip off, innit.

most banks will take 10 bags or so at a time, but you can pay the
full whack into a charity account at coop bank, if you wish.

gallon

1 and 2 p now i just have coffee jars, check em with a magnet..

one for cheapo steel ones which get bagged and donated, and one for older full copper ones
which i bag and stick in cupboard, awaiting copper prices rising

They're a bit of a waste of time. I don't suppose there are still penny sweets for kids any more, are there?

When my kids were little, I remember taking about a year filling an old baby bottle steriliser thing with 1 and 2p's. Only to discover the bank wouldn't take them unless I bagged them up 1st.
It was full to the brim, nice few bob, I thought. But no, it was a total of £18.

It's not worth saving coppers.

A big box or bucket of 5p and up, if done until full and not delved into could buy something quite substantial though.

The problem is who really uses cash to buy things anymore? don't most just use their card in everyshop, I've even seen people selling the big issue who take payment cards. Hence the talk of a soon to be cashless society? though don't thing it will eve happen, older people still rely on it, ike those who have carers and give money to them to go and buy their shopping, don't think they'd feel comfortable given over their card and pin.

There's more than a few people for whom cash bets in shops is the only possible way to get a bet anywhere but on here.

Also, without cash you'd lose one of the great pleasures in life: putting on a coat you haven't worn in years and discovering change you'd forgotten about in an inside pocket.

One pundit on Racing TV was packing up his belongings following a split from wife No.1 a few years ago, when the woman who was helping him discovered well over a grand in notes from some long-forgotten coup stuffed into the inside pocket of a jacket.

She is now wife No. 2.

i still use mostly cash for shopping. ( and punting)

but a couple of weeks ago, faced with a queue at the checkouts in supermanket
a nice assistant told me the card only tills were less busy.

off i went, 65p on my card

reminded me of my younger days and buying cigarettes by cheque, with
bank details scrawled on back by shopkeeper.