Piggy bank joy!

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My husband doesn't like coins other than £1 so any other change gets chucked in his old quality street tub. At the last count he had over £80 made up from 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 1p and 2p coins. I'm the mug who sat there sorting and counting in to money bags for him.

At least that's the majority of his holiday spends sorted.

Im resisting the urge to spend it though but I need to save it for holidays!

I save 20ps and over the course of a year i perhaps save about £100 which i stick into my ISA. I don't miss them and it's nice when it's added up and banked

Fab! I love piggy bank spends.

We have a old bottle we fill with loose change. We say it's for holiday spends or Christmas spends for the girls. They hunt the house and car for odd coins that have fallen out of our pockets etc and top the bottle up. Last count was for Spain, £130 they got - they use the coinstar in supermarkets.

£214 is great. My dad has one that is meant to equal £500 when full. It's currently empty.

Me and H through all our change in an old Miniature Heroes tin at the end of the day, we through 1ps right up to 50ps in. We normally manage to put away around £400 a year into our savings. I also save £20 a month with my Mum so I will have around £300 at Christmas, which will come in handy for presents/food etc.

Is that one of those machines KB3?? Do you just tip your money in and it gives you notes back? How does it work?

I have just emptied our terramundi of £130 £2 coins in. It wasn't full but we have a discount at Hamleys tomorrow so I will be Crimbo Shopping ?. Going to keep putting them in and see how much we have in December. Def going to do the same next year too.

I have a jar that counts the coins as it goes in there is currently £44.13 in there and i emptied £80 out of it the other day which i changed into £1 coins and put in a £1 coin tin , its just the scrap i find at the bottom of my handbag at the end of each week and thsi has been since jan .

i was helping gary save £2 cons until i realised it wasnt for us it was for new golf clubs so i am now savig them myself for hols and xmas , i am not funding his golf habit when there are shoes and bags to be bought

We save coins from 1p to 50p in an old cigar box. regularly bag em up and then leave the bags in a rucksac to take to the bank. i think we've got almost £200 now. that was going to be spent on wedding rings but seeing as those were bought (and used!) 6 months ago, i think it'll be spent on holidays.

i also save £2 coins - i'm saving for a ridiculously expensive handbag and am now half way there. although the prices have just gone up. i don't think i'll ever buy it.

always wanted a terrimundi, but can't trust myself not to smash it open "just to see" how much is in there. ?

Cariad - thats why we have seperate spendie button jars. H was using it for football/parking/papers and rubbish so I sulked and got one of the ceramic ones from Clintons you have to smash to get your money out. ?

I couldnt believe it he got £6 out of me the other sunday when we were shopping and then i found out it was for golf clubs the git

the ashtray in my car is overflowing with scrap coins too i think if i empty that there will be about £8 in there

i leave coins everywhere lol

I empty my purse out every time I come home into the jar, probably why there is so much in there! I have been known to empty H's pockets before I do a wash - just of the change .... he should have checked them first though. Finders keepers and all that ?

I throw any change into the bottom of my handbag notes go in my purse and i scoop it out at the end of the week , i am too lazy to get my purse back out and open it to put coppers and stuff back in

£214 is fab, you can enjoy your hols now. Where do you get a piggy bank that you can't take out of then? That sounds like a good plan.

My H puts all his loose change on the side and it goes in an empty roses container, when it's full we put it in a Coinstar machine. The last one had about £50 in it. Then it goes in MissSun's bank account.

The Coinstar machines take a percentage, you get a receipt and take it to the check out (well you do in Sainsbuggers) and they will either give you the cash or you can put it towards your shopping.

We need to go again cause the Roses container is full and I'm having a job to lift it and and out the cupboard.

Yes. You pour your money in, 1p per pound goes to charity (or their commission I can't remember which). The machine prints a receipt which you take to the kiosk and they give you the notes.

oo! I might take it down later then!! ?

Sunset - I got mine from Clintons, It's purple and has 'holiday fund' on it. You are supposed to smash it when it's full but I was very carefull with a happer and screwdriver and chipped a hole in the bottom ?