Small change

[The Builder]

I keep finding little pots of pennies and twopences around the house - where I've been emptying my pockets. Can you actually buy anything in this country for 1p or 2p?

[gina32]

collect them all nad change them in one of those coinstar things in the supermarkets

[funnygirl]

My sons toss these coins to one side and I collect them all in a big bottle.
Around about this time I have a big count up and buy myself and I mean myself something nice,
Sometime it adds up to over �50.

[B00]

I like funnygirls style there!!! ^^^

I collect pennies in a little coffee jar, and every now and then me and Mini Boo count out 20 of them and go to our local corner shop where you can still buy penny sweets. She's only 3, but knows 20 of those mean 20 sweeties- well actually, they mean 21 to her as the shop owner is so charmed by her he hands her a "freebie"....she's such a con artist!

[The Builder]

That's what I meant really - so you can still get something for a penny :o)))))

[B00]

Ya sure can!

Plus to my eternal shame I have been known to 'copper up' for a loaf of bread in the past.

(should I have kept that quiet?)

[LaceyMike]

Definitely not, it costs 20p to 'spend a penny' now!

[spudqueen]

You can legally only spend 20p in bronze coins at any one time - so your best bet is to change them either at one of those coin machines at a supermarket or at your bank - or gather up all your 2p coins and go down to your local amusement arcade and spend them all in a 2p fall machine.

[pinkkitty]

you could always go to your local sweetie shop and buy penny sweets. That's about the only thing i can think of which actually costs a penny!

[B00]

Nawww, really spudqueen? How come? I serve an old man every week who buys a TV mag at 35p who always gives it to me in coppers. Can I now get him arrested for it?

[rabbitygirl]

And not much with a stack of them either. When we bought our renovation project a few months ago, it was empty. Apart from piles of 2ps on one of the fireplaces. Obviously not worth anyones while scooping them up.

Nor ours. They are still there. They make a rather unusual feature.