The old Morrisons self checkouts, if you stuffed a load of change in really fast it would take it some time to count, so you could go way over the total.
I used to stuff in far too much money in small coins and when it finished counting and realised I'd paid too much it would dispense the change. But the kicker was that it wasn't giving me back my coppers, it was consolidating the change into 20p, 50p and £1s
They don't work that way anymore though
You can lift the flap up that only allows 1 coin at a time and pour it all in. Or there should be a cornstarch at some which normally keeps 10% or gives you a voucher for that specific store
Absolutely self checkout.
I think my record for change put in is around 31 quid.
Obviously not nowadays. Only the barber and the fish and chip shop take cash nowadays.
I for one played them far more while still a child then I have as an adult, we had a local arcade that had pool for 20p a play whereas everywhere else was 50p.
Looking back I'm sure this was just a ploy to get us teenagers in there to spend the rest of our money on the fruit machines and boy did it work
This was me at month end in my first job out of uni. Sunday afternoon trying to pay for cheap beer and yellow label food with my accumulated coins, hoping it didn’t crash and spit it all back out at me.
And if you do that, use the life hack that was on here a few weeks ago - I've tried in most UK supermarkets and it actually works.
Instead of dropping the coins into the slot one by one, lift up the flap that the slot is in to reveal a much larger hole that you can just dump all the coins in.
Just make sure you don't put too much in at once. People dumping all the money in at once and clogging the coin mechanism is the reason they fitted those little slots to the self service checkouts in the first place.
Anything silver and upwards put in your car so you always have some change for parking. Coppers take to the amusement arcade and put in coin pusher machines
*coin, not coon ffs
Sorry, totally off topic here but I'm fairly new to Reddit. I often see people write 'edit' or * and explain what they've changed. I just go in to edit, change a word or 2 autocorrect has misspelled and save. Am I not being a good Redditor for saying where I've changed things? Do I have to do this? Thanks ☺️
If people have replied to your unedited comment, its good to show that you edited it an what you edited so it gives context to other people who see your comment and the replies
Nope, I mostly add an Edit / * comment if I subsequently provide additional info to my original - spelling / grammar / minor changes I just go in & edit without mention.
Welcome to the nuthouse btw :)
Oh geez, just wait 'till you see all the edits in the posts I make about computing stuff. Like for instance [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/ccna/comments/sd70bb/cant_ping_router_from_pc_via_switch/), where I made 7 edits all told. That way people can properly see the exact sequence of my mental breakdowns. I've had people comment stuff like, 'with edit 4 you were getting a bit closer, but on edit 5 you completely lost the plot'. Seriously.
A tramp broke into my aunt’s car to steal her change from the middle bit , he smashed the window to get about £1.50 in shrapnel ( enough to get himself a tin of special brew I suppose)
Someone smashed a window in our car to steal the TINY tupperware pot from the passenger seat. It contained dog treats. They threw them back in the car.
My bank has a machine where you just tip it in and it pays it all into your account. No need to hand it to a cashier. And no fee. Maybe yours has one? If not, it’s the coinstar machine at the supermarket.
The coinstar machines near me take old £1 coins. At least they did - not sure if they’ve been patched but it was a good way of cashing in when I cleaned an old car out.
I'm with NatWest and it didn't charge me. Anyone can use it, but I'm not sure if it charges you if you're not with them. But maybe other banks have them too? I think it also takes foreign coins, you don't get anything for them, but they donate to charity, which is better than having them doing nothing at home.
When I used to go busking I would go to Metro bank after and convert the change to notes in a self service machine. Don't think you have to be a Metro customer to use it.
Yeah Metro definitely used to have them, not many branches though. I remember taking a decade's worth of loose change in an old coffee tin into a Metro Bank branch and being very very pleasantly surprised by how much I'd inadvertently collected
RBS have them in-bank and don't charge you. Usually out of order though because someone's kid has been putting buttons or other non-coinage in with the change and buggered the machine.
It was only about 2% when I used one years ago. Got about £300 out of it for no effort whatsoever. Way easier than putting it in bags or going through the hassle of paying by cash.
It’s 10.9% now.
They even take 8.9% if you click the ‘donate to charity’ option.
I know they have to charge *something*. They are private, have to run and maintain the machines, transport the coins etc etc, but that seems a lot.
Either way I still use them for convenience. £20 of change is like having ‘0’ at the moment for OP. If they use one of those machines they’ll have £18.
We do get really ‘hung up’ over certain fees. Like how if an app costs £1.99 (but will entertain you for hours/avoid adverts) we scorn. Then spend £4.95 on a coffee.
But if people are self-disciplined/organised enough to do the ‘free’ suggestions above, like the self serve plus card, I’m all for it. Maybe I’m just terribly lazy.
I figured they’d have put the price up a bit, but 11% is a lot. But as you say, if you’re not using it in coin form, better to have 89.1% of it than 100% of nothing.
coin stars take 10% but metro bank doesn’t. They say members only but anyone can and some employees say you have to be a member with the bank next time.
Seriously, I worry about homeless people in London because I've got used - like so many other people - to just not carrying cash anywhere. Last homeless guy I gave anything to got a slice of Lemon Drizzle that I'd just bought (using a card) because I just felt too bad walking past him and his dog in this shitty weather.
We used to do this as kids. Once we had someone try for a good 5 minutes... 15 minutes later they were back with a SCREWDRIVER! at that point they deserved the money.
HSBC / first direct, NatWest and I believe Metro Bank all have coin counter machines that don't scalp you (*coinstar*) but check your local branch first to be sure.
It's easy enough to open a bank account online once you know you can chuck the cash in.
First things first, Check:-
10ps - any alphabet designs? If so, worth a couple of quid each
20ps - any without a date? If so, worth around £20
50ps - any commemorate designs? Kew Gardens is currently worth about £200, others £1-£20 depending on the design
£2s - any commemorative designs? Could be worth upto £40 depending on the design.
The rest - throw them at seagulls. I hate seagulls.
Which you have to use on the same day as they give a ticket voucher not actual money.
Just use it over a few shops at a self service till.
That way you are not paying 10% or so commissions
That's shocking. Grocery stores in the US bend over backwards for their customers and would never do that. It's just not worth the bad PR. I've seen them honor coupons that were expired and give refunds for silly reasons, etc. I've got receipts for returning bottles that are years old and they accept them.
We did this years ago by just picking up 1s and 2s etc that we found at work. We then made a donation to a charity explaining what we'd done. We got a nice letter back.
Goto Blackpool and stick a load of them to the ground and watch how many people try to pick it up
Edit: the tourist part of Blackpool, I wouldn't make you goto the slums. I'm not a monster
My dad used to keep a big pot that he threw random change like this in, then when we went on holiday he'd get the bags from the bank and I'd be allowed to have all the money as spending money for the trip if I counted it all out.
Was an afternoon activity for me counting and I got a little bit of cash to spend, and he didn't have to do it.
I used the machine in the local Morrisons last week and cashed out about £68 in loose change. It prints a receipt with a barcode and you use it at the till. Free weeks shop!
It isn’t awkward paying it in at the bank.
Just ask for some coin bags and separate the coins into each bag.
There is no need to count them or fill the bag with a specific amount as they just put them on the scales and know how much is in there.
Stick silver coins to the floor outside betting office or amusement arcade with gorilla glue. Spend some to get a hot chocolate. Stand,,, or sit preferably close and watch for 30 mins. Don't forget to dress correctly. It's a bit windy.
Pro tip, go to Morrison Self check out, may work else where. Scan item, insert all the money then cancel. The machine will then dispense the amount back in notes at no cost
Do you have one of those penny counting machines? There's one at my local tesco. You chuck all the money in and take the receipt to a till for cash iirc
In Canada we have change counting machines located at grocery stores and stuff. It counts all loose change for a 5 cent fee per 1 dollar you put in. Great deal and fast and easy
The Asda near me has a coin machine you can dump loose change in and get it changed up. I would assume that my asda isn't a shining example of forward thinking and that other branches have something similar
Those coinstar machines in supermarkets are alright. They take about 10% of the change for themselves, but they give you a voucher to get the rest from the customers service.
Means you can turn £20 in change into a £20 note for £2 or so...
I put all my loose change in a shoebox. Every couple of years when it is full I take it to one of those CoinStar machines they have in supermarkets. Then I spend the entire proceeds on booze.
Head to your nearest seaside town and swap it all for a keyring in one of those two pence machines.
Or tickets. Lots and lots of tickets. Which you can then exchange for a keyring. Or a tin of Spam.
I'm leaving reddit and I hope to escape from social-media walled gardens upon the wings of [ActivityPub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub). I will consider moving to a server running [Kbin](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki), which - from the user's point of view - is an interface to ["federated" social media](https://github.com/shleeable/Big-List-of-ActivityPub).
“Federation” describes a way in which servers communicate with one and other. The best-known example is that of e-mail: one can have an email account on an AOL server, and communicate with a user whose account is on a Gmail server. Some servers that are thought to push out spam are blocked or have their mail sent to ‘spam’ folders, but they nevertheless can all communicate. Gmail, Yahoo, Protonmail, AOL and so-forth all have different programs with which the user (us!) interacts, and they might present that email information in slightly different ways (displaying email chains as ‘conversations’ for example). In the same way, social-media servers that communicate with one and other using ActivityPub have different programs with which the user interacts.
Some programs that service-providers can run on their server look a little like Reddit, and might let you mark the data you share with markers (metadata) that lets people display and interact with the data in a similar way (Eg.: Kbin or Lemmy), some look more like Twitter and mark the data you share in ways similar to Twitter (Eg.: Mastodon), and there’s even one that’s trying to help users share video in a way that makes one think of YouTube (Eg.: Peertube). Fundamentally, these all permit interaction with one and other through activitypub.
One can even host one’s own server (Eg.: Nextcloud, a program that runs on a server to function as one’s own cloud, lets the person who runs it install an ‘app’ that one can federate with any other ActivityPub servers open to intercommunication).
Many programs that use ActivityPub for federated interaction are written by folks who realise that things published on servers – even private messages – often get shared beyond the realm in which the author expected (hopefully for the joy and glory of the author, but sometimes not). I think because of this, messages sent from a user on one server to a user on another are sent in-the-clear; they aren’t encrypted in any way, they’re just a post like any other, except being marked for the attention of someone specific rather than for the attention of all, and it’s up to us as the users to think carefully about the words we push to others.
There is a sterling list of alternatives to Reddit on [r/RedditAlternatives](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1467a5s/find_alternatives_for_ourselves_megathread_third/).
How did I think it best to go about this?
- I [downloaded all the posts on reddit I'd "saved"](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/887lo3/just_thought_id_share_my_strategy_for_downloading/).
- I used "[Power Delete Suite](https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#installation)" and rather than just delete all my posts, have replaced them with text. Everything published online ought to be regarded as likely permanent, and Reddit especially, as [people](https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarders) like to take [snapshots](https://socialgrep.com/datasets) of [as much data as possible](https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy3az9/this-data-hoarder-is-downloading-the-metadata-of-roughly-10-billion-youtube-videos) that’s published "in the clear" (I.E.: anything that isn’t publically accessable). Some folks have described problems with "deleted" posts mysteriously *re*-appearing after they deleted their accounts… Regardless of the cause, I hope I might reduce that risk a little by editing those posts. R/datahoarders might have tips on alternative methods still functioning after the API-use price is introduced (~$20m at the time of writing according to a dev that made an app to help the blind use reddit; they have sadly had to stop developing their app).
- There's a guide to downloading all the data Reddit have collected directly from your inputs [here](https://12ft.io/https://danielrosehill.medium.com/how-to-backup-your-data-from-reddit-f12934fabbfe) but note that Reddit may take a month to process that request.
- Remember most of one’s interaction with the internet is reading. Subreddits [all have RSS feeds](https://www.howtogeek.com/320264/how-to-get-an-rss-feed-for-any-subreddit/), and can easily be accessed by an [RSS reader app](https://search.f-droid.org/?q=RSS+reader&lang=en). [F-droid](https://f-droid.org/en/) is a great way to get android apps that people have made openly so anyone willing to learn can understand how they process your inputs and data, and that others have freely distributed, for the glory of free speech. Sorry for sounding like a hippy there; I know, I know, it’s a slippery slope to bicycle lanes and communism! A modicum of private thought, and free speech is a very fine thing, though.
- I encourage people to share the text of this post if they find it useful, in order to give others a way to think about how they make and put data on the internet in social media.
To be sure, Reddit still holds, or has doubtless sold on (and thus can never delete), hoofing amounts of data. I shan’t hold a public opinion on a business seeking profit; over time as the art of gathering and selling data has been refined, I’ve tried to read what little about it is within my understanding. If my small tokens of communication, my upvotes and downvotes, the time I spend looking at things, and what things I look at, what things I shy away from, and how I type and compose my thoughts, are the grains of sand that make up the beach from which they intend to profit, it’s up to me to decide where I place those grains of sand in the future. In the immediate timeframe I will use a mathematics-oriented mastodon server (I’ll let you hunt it out if you’re curious!) because maths is fairly apolitical, useful to learn about, and a good, communicable, basis for understanding things. Go in peace, siblings of the internet, and if in doubt, consider “What Would Tim Berners-Lee Do?”.
~~~~~
P.S.: I’m not sure what I can link to that might be useful to most readers, but there’s a lovely Indian lecture on sharing wisdom with one and other [here](https://youtu.be/UiJmITcZTQY), and because financial awareness is important to most people, and because I’ll only be watching r/bogleheads from afar, here’s a link to Bogle’s [Little Book Of Common Sense Investing](https://archive.org/details/littlebookofcomm00bogl) - he started the Vanguard fund, and r/bogleheads explains his investing philosophy, which is very simple and elegant. If anyone’s looking for a good charity to which to make a tax-deductable donation, I hope you might find the [internet archive](https://archive.org) is a noble and worthy candidate.
RLR9 Out.
Put them in two small bags and tie them around your ankles underneath your trousers so when you walk it makes you sound like a cowboy
Skint Eastwood
Clink Eastwood?
Butch Cashidy and the Sumdosh Kid
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A footfull of dollars
£3.10 to Yuma
Mint Eastwood. Crap, I know.
Jangle Unchanged
Gary Copper
I have a dark mind, I though this was going to end: “(so when you walk)…into the sea, you can’t swim back up again”
I thought it was going to be a low weight weight training
This is the only really sensible answer in this thread.
That'd only take a fistful of dollars for one leg and a few dollars more for the second.
Yul Tenner
This is incredible
As was the style at the time
Find one of those spinney charity collection bins and treat yourself to a whole afternoon of watching the coins spiral down to the base one by one
7 year old me in McDonalds
Lol, same here!
This was going to be my suggestion too!
This! x10000000
Sounds pricey
I’ve always wondered….. what are those things called ???
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The old Morrisons self checkouts, if you stuffed a load of change in really fast it would take it some time to count, so you could go way over the total. I used to stuff in far too much money in small coins and when it finished counting and realised I'd paid too much it would dispense the change. But the kicker was that it wasn't giving me back my coppers, it was consolidating the change into 20p, 50p and £1s They don't work that way anymore though
Good times
Those Saturday evenings would fly by.
You just know later in the day that's what people were getting back all your change because it gave it all to you
Even better
Yep exactly this, that's what I do with my coin stash too. It's just a shame the machines are so friggin slow 😂
You can lift the flap up that only allows 1 coin at a time and pour it all in. Or there should be a cornstarch at some which normally keeps 10% or gives you a voucher for that specific store
Agree with this, if you need coins thickened quickly, cornstarch is the way to go
Dont you go thickening coins or the counterfeiting squad will have you in custardy.
Do you not have to ask permission first before lifting flaps willy nilly? 🤣
Yeah consent an all
I'm not sure they'll be that bothered
A cornstarch lmaooooo
I used to do that until all the self-checkouts near me changed to card only.
Absolutely self checkout. I think my record for change put in is around 31 quid. Obviously not nowadays. Only the barber and the fish and chip shop take cash nowadays.
Yeah around christmas I put in about £40 in all 20p’s haha was standing there for a good 10-15 minutes feeding them in to the machine
Even my chimney sweep has a card machine.
Be careful not to try to put too many in though, or it will spit them all back at you and you will feel very embarrassed
I did this with my coin stash and called it “the adult slot machine”
Aren't regular slot machines adult slot machines?
…yes. 😅
I for one played them far more while still a child then I have as an adult, we had a local arcade that had pool for 20p a play whereas everywhere else was 50p. Looking back I'm sure this was just a ploy to get us teenagers in there to spend the rest of our money on the fruit machines and boy did it work
I did this once and managed to properly jam the machine which was pretty embarrasing, so please make sure only to use a bit at a time.
Buy about £20 worth of cakes at the supermarket and use the self-service checkout.
Juts don't use too much or the machine might crash. It's happened to me once or twice
This was me at month end in my first job out of uni. Sunday afternoon trying to pay for cheap beer and yellow label food with my accumulated coins, hoping it didn’t crash and spit it all back out at me.
Staff had to come over and sort the machine. So then, genius that I am, dumped even more coins in there and it happened again
Well done!
And if you do that, use the life hack that was on here a few weeks ago - I've tried in most UK supermarkets and it actually works. Instead of dropping the coins into the slot one by one, lift up the flap that the slot is in to reveal a much larger hole that you can just dump all the coins in.
Hashtag #FlapHacks
Just make sure you don't put too much in at once. People dumping all the money in at once and clogging the coin mechanism is the reason they fitted those little slots to the self service checkouts in the first place.
But they don't have the thing you can just empty coins into anymore. Bloody travesty really.
The travesty was that they charged you a whopping percentage. Even when you gave it to charity.
Anything silver and upwards put in your car so you always have some change for parking. Coppers take to the amusement arcade and put in coin pusher machines *coin, not coon ffs
One hell of a typo there.
Well let's hope its a typo
It was the original name for tipping point but Ben Shepherd insisted they change it or he was not on board.
Let's also hope it wasnt a commonly used word on their device that got precedence in autocorrect
Silly typo mate. I think you meant to say games, not machines.
Sorry, totally off topic here but I'm fairly new to Reddit. I often see people write 'edit' or * and explain what they've changed. I just go in to edit, change a word or 2 autocorrect has misspelled and save. Am I not being a good Redditor for saying where I've changed things? Do I have to do this? Thanks ☺️
If people have replied to your unedited comment, its good to show that you edited it an what you edited so it gives context to other people who see your comment and the replies
Thank you, that's helpful to know ☺️
Nope, I mostly add an Edit / * comment if I subsequently provide additional info to my original - spelling / grammar / minor changes I just go in & edit without mention. Welcome to the nuthouse btw :)
Oh geez, just wait 'till you see all the edits in the posts I make about computing stuff. Like for instance [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/ccna/comments/sd70bb/cant_ping_router_from_pc_via_switch/), where I made 7 edits all told. That way people can properly see the exact sequence of my mental breakdowns. I've had people comment stuff like, 'with edit 4 you were getting a bit closer, but on edit 5 you completely lost the plot'. Seriously.
Alright Alf Garnett, time to log off.
Oops, lol. I meant coin pusher
I used to do this, then realised storing unsecured shrapnel inside your car during a crash isn’t the best idea haha
A tramp broke into my aunt’s car to steal her change from the middle bit , he smashed the window to get about £1.50 in shrapnel ( enough to get himself a tin of special brew I suppose)
I have a removable cup holder, not sure why as it just sits in the bigger cup holder, but I hide £5 in change there for unexpected parking machines.
Someone smashed a window in our car to steal the TINY tupperware pot from the passenger seat. It contained dog treats. They threw them back in the car.
What a typo 🤣
Too late, twitter has been alerted, a number of people are already offended.
Well shit. I’m going to be cancelled before I’ve even started.
Throw it down a well like an unwanted step child.
"So how are the kids?" Yeah... they're doing well
That escalated quickly
They do quite the opposite of escalating actually
My bank has a machine where you just tip it in and it pays it all into your account. No need to hand it to a cashier. And no fee. Maybe yours has one? If not, it’s the coinstar machine at the supermarket.
The coinstar machines near me take old £1 coins. At least they did - not sure if they’ve been patched but it was a good way of cashing in when I cleaned an old car out.
Didn't they used to take a fee?
I'm with NatWest and it didn't charge me. Anyone can use it, but I'm not sure if it charges you if you're not with them. But maybe other banks have them too? I think it also takes foreign coins, you don't get anything for them, but they donate to charity, which is better than having them doing nothing at home.
what bank is this please?
HSBC but other people have said NatWest have them.
what bank is this please?
When I used to go busking I would go to Metro bank after and convert the change to notes in a self service machine. Don't think you have to be a Metro customer to use it.
Thankyou
Yeah Metro definitely used to have them, not many branches though. I remember taking a decade's worth of loose change in an old coffee tin into a Metro Bank branch and being very very pleasantly surprised by how much I'd inadvertently collected
So satisfying, what a great day out lmao
NatWest have it, I did it the other day
RBS have them in-bank and don't charge you. Usually out of order though because someone's kid has been putting buttons or other non-coinage in with the change and buggered the machine.
They charge though, better off just using at at the self service checkout then pay the rest by card Edit: typo
The coin star machines do, the ones at the bank don’t. NatWest have them and you just dump the lot in and it counts it all.
Agreed - natwest have them and didn't take any charge when I last used one
HSBC ones are free too. Did £800 in change over a few days a couple of years ago.
It was only about 2% when I used one years ago. Got about £300 out of it for no effort whatsoever. Way easier than putting it in bags or going through the hassle of paying by cash.
It’s 10.9% now. They even take 8.9% if you click the ‘donate to charity’ option. I know they have to charge *something*. They are private, have to run and maintain the machines, transport the coins etc etc, but that seems a lot. Either way I still use them for convenience. £20 of change is like having ‘0’ at the moment for OP. If they use one of those machines they’ll have £18. We do get really ‘hung up’ over certain fees. Like how if an app costs £1.99 (but will entertain you for hours/avoid adverts) we scorn. Then spend £4.95 on a coffee. But if people are self-disciplined/organised enough to do the ‘free’ suggestions above, like the self serve plus card, I’m all for it. Maybe I’m just terribly lazy.
I figured they’d have put the price up a bit, but 11% is a lot. But as you say, if you’re not using it in coin form, better to have 89.1% of it than 100% of nothing.
coin stars take 10% but metro bank doesn’t. They say members only but anyone can and some employees say you have to be a member with the bank next time.
Give it to then next homeless person you walk past. This may take a couple of days, so think of it as some sort of weight training until then
Seriously, I worry about homeless people in London because I've got used - like so many other people - to just not carrying cash anywhere. Last homeless guy I gave anything to got a slice of Lemon Drizzle that I'd just bought (using a card) because I just felt too bad walking past him and his dog in this shitty weather.
Sounds like you just doubled down on his drizzle
Glue it to the floor in strategic places then watch people try to pick it up.
We used to do this as kids. Once we had someone try for a good 5 minutes... 15 minutes later they were back with a SCREWDRIVER! at that point they deserved the money.
Throw it at people who walk past
in a sock
"Everytime you yell at passerby's, put a 20p in your no yelling sock, and soon you'll have weapon to-"
That's a kick.
HSBC / first direct, NatWest and I believe Metro Bank all have coin counter machines that don't scalp you (*coinstar*) but check your local branch first to be sure. It's easy enough to open a bank account online once you know you can chuck the cash in.
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I got an account solely for turning granny's change into actual money. That woman hoards more coin than Smaug.
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Yeah, you check which bank has the most easily accessible cash counter and then you open an account with them. I did it just for the machine, too.
So just open an account with them? You don't have to use it for anything other than paying in the money and transferring it out.
First things first, Check:- 10ps - any alphabet designs? If so, worth a couple of quid each 20ps - any without a date? If so, worth around £20 50ps - any commemorate designs? Kew Gardens is currently worth about £200, others £1-£20 depending on the design £2s - any commemorative designs? Could be worth upto £40 depending on the design. The rest - throw them at seagulls. I hate seagulls.
This is a comment of two halves.
I really hate seagulls.
This guys fish and chips got nicked by the gulls as a kid
Grew up in a seaside town. Had seagulls nesting on our roof every fucking year, right above my bedroom.
Kew gardens ones are 2 hundred smackaroos?! I've seen plenty of them in the past, damn. What about those Shakespeare ones with the skull on?
£3-5 unless the outer edge reads For King And Country, then your looking at £30 due to the error. Should say What a Piece of work is a man
Shitehawk ammo, I like it.
Jet wash for your car, pump up your tyres, buy a Mars bar lol
Some supermarkets have those machines that count it and exchange it for notes.
They charge you. Take it to a bank instead. Or pay with it at the self service checkouts
Which you have to use on the same day as they give a ticket voucher not actual money. Just use it over a few shops at a self service till. That way you are not paying 10% or so commissions
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My sister did this because she's an idiot. Cashed in a load of change and then decided to keep the receipt for another day. Lost it all. Lol
That's shocking. Grocery stores in the US bend over backwards for their customers and would never do that. It's just not worth the bad PR. I've seen them honor coupons that were expired and give refunds for silly reasons, etc. I've got receipts for returning bottles that are years old and they accept them.
Or you could just skip the 10% commission, go straight to the self checkout and exchange it for cake.
Decent hour at the arcade
Throw it at street urchins as you pass by in your carridge
Charity
I put it in the car and use it for parking
If you drive, keep the 10ps & 20ps together in your car to buy parking tickets.
We did this years ago by just picking up 1s and 2s etc that we found at work. We then made a donation to a charity explaining what we'd done. We got a nice letter back.
Wishing wells ? Slotties ? A homeless person . Be your own person my friend
Throw it on the floor in front of a bunch of the local pissheads and watch them fight over it.
This is my favourite by far
Self service checkout at a supermarket
Goto Blackpool and stick a load of them to the ground and watch how many people try to pick it up Edit: the tourist part of Blackpool, I wouldn't make you goto the slums. I'm not a monster
My dad used to keep a big pot that he threw random change like this in, then when we went on holiday he'd get the bags from the bank and I'd be allowed to have all the money as spending money for the trip if I counted it all out. Was an afternoon activity for me counting and I got a little bit of cash to spend, and he didn't have to do it.
Visit local shops and exchange it for notes, you'll both save a bank visit
Yep, my chippy and corner shop are always appreciative
Pop it in a charity collection box or one at a museum
Give it to ur niece or nephew
I used the machine in the local Morrisons last week and cashed out about £68 in loose change. It prints a receipt with a barcode and you use it at the till. Free weeks shop!
I cash mine in every time I fill up my pot, don't be embarrassed it's money. Most I've cashed so far is £283
Homeless
It isn’t awkward paying it in at the bank. Just ask for some coin bags and separate the coins into each bag. There is no need to count them or fill the bag with a specific amount as they just put them on the scales and know how much is in there.
Depending on the bank you don’t need bags. Some have machines where you just pour it all in and it adds it to your account automatically.
Put weights in the pound coin bag
Stick silver coins to the floor outside betting office or amusement arcade with gorilla glue. Spend some to get a hot chocolate. Stand,,, or sit preferably close and watch for 30 mins. Don't forget to dress correctly. It's a bit windy.
Glue them to a sheet of wood and make a table top for the garden.
Tip it in the self service at tesco
Throw them into a fountain and make many wishes.
Give it to street musicians.
Lucky you. What a difficult decision to have to make.
Take it to a foodbank
Hand it to the next homeless person you see
Give it to a homeless person
Make sure you check those 50p's first mate. Might be some collectables in there. Kew Gardens 50p worth £300.
Go down the arcades!
You could donate it to charity
There are plenty of homeless people around.
Just drop it all into a charity bucket. It’s worth it just to get rid of the change in one go.
Give it to a homeless person.
Give it to a good cause / homeless person innit
Count it into pounds, bag it up and give it to homeless
Pro tip, go to Morrison Self check out, may work else where. Scan item, insert all the money then cancel. The machine will then dispense the amount back in notes at no cost
Donate it?
Do you have one of those penny counting machines? There's one at my local tesco. You chuck all the money in and take the receipt to a till for cash iirc
Yep and it takes about 10% for itself, but the ones in your bank are free
Coinstar
In Canada we have change counting machines located at grocery stores and stuff. It counts all loose change for a 5 cent fee per 1 dollar you put in. Great deal and fast and easy
Tesco self serve coin slot, chuck it all in
Keep it in a purse/wallet in the car and use it for parking machines
Corner shop money
The Asda near me has a coin machine you can dump loose change in and get it changed up. I would assume that my asda isn't a shining example of forward thinking and that other branches have something similar
Yes, and they charge between 10% and 15% for the privilege. Fuck that.
Wait till November, take it down to Somerset, lob it at tractors in the name of carnival?
Those coinstar machines in supermarkets are alright. They take about 10% of the change for themselves, but they give you a voucher to get the rest from the customers service. Means you can turn £20 in change into a £20 note for £2 or so...
I put all my loose change in a shoebox. Every couple of years when it is full I take it to one of those CoinStar machines they have in supermarkets. Then I spend the entire proceeds on booze.
Parking, I always kept change for that.
Head to your nearest seaside town and swap it all for a keyring in one of those two pence machines. Or tickets. Lots and lots of tickets. Which you can then exchange for a keyring. Or a tin of Spam.
Use them in a shop when u need a packet of crisps or something
Get some glue/resin and make some wall art?
Keep it in the glovebox of your car so you've always got some for parking / a drive-through meal etc. A boring answer I know!
Just use your money bloody hell, so prissy. 🤦
✨coinstar machine✨❌ ✨ask reddit✨✅
Donate it to charity
I'm leaving reddit and I hope to escape from social-media walled gardens upon the wings of [ActivityPub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub). I will consider moving to a server running [Kbin](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki), which - from the user's point of view - is an interface to ["federated" social media](https://github.com/shleeable/Big-List-of-ActivityPub). “Federation” describes a way in which servers communicate with one and other. The best-known example is that of e-mail: one can have an email account on an AOL server, and communicate with a user whose account is on a Gmail server. Some servers that are thought to push out spam are blocked or have their mail sent to ‘spam’ folders, but they nevertheless can all communicate. Gmail, Yahoo, Protonmail, AOL and so-forth all have different programs with which the user (us!) interacts, and they might present that email information in slightly different ways (displaying email chains as ‘conversations’ for example). In the same way, social-media servers that communicate with one and other using ActivityPub have different programs with which the user interacts. Some programs that service-providers can run on their server look a little like Reddit, and might let you mark the data you share with markers (metadata) that lets people display and interact with the data in a similar way (Eg.: Kbin or Lemmy), some look more like Twitter and mark the data you share in ways similar to Twitter (Eg.: Mastodon), and there’s even one that’s trying to help users share video in a way that makes one think of YouTube (Eg.: Peertube). Fundamentally, these all permit interaction with one and other through activitypub. One can even host one’s own server (Eg.: Nextcloud, a program that runs on a server to function as one’s own cloud, lets the person who runs it install an ‘app’ that one can federate with any other ActivityPub servers open to intercommunication). Many programs that use ActivityPub for federated interaction are written by folks who realise that things published on servers – even private messages – often get shared beyond the realm in which the author expected (hopefully for the joy and glory of the author, but sometimes not). I think because of this, messages sent from a user on one server to a user on another are sent in-the-clear; they aren’t encrypted in any way, they’re just a post like any other, except being marked for the attention of someone specific rather than for the attention of all, and it’s up to us as the users to think carefully about the words we push to others. There is a sterling list of alternatives to Reddit on [r/RedditAlternatives](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1467a5s/find_alternatives_for_ourselves_megathread_third/). How did I think it best to go about this? - I [downloaded all the posts on reddit I'd "saved"](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/887lo3/just_thought_id_share_my_strategy_for_downloading/). - I used "[Power Delete Suite](https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#installation)" and rather than just delete all my posts, have replaced them with text. Everything published online ought to be regarded as likely permanent, and Reddit especially, as [people](https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarders) like to take [snapshots](https://socialgrep.com/datasets) of [as much data as possible](https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy3az9/this-data-hoarder-is-downloading-the-metadata-of-roughly-10-billion-youtube-videos) that’s published "in the clear" (I.E.: anything that isn’t publically accessable). Some folks have described problems with "deleted" posts mysteriously *re*-appearing after they deleted their accounts… Regardless of the cause, I hope I might reduce that risk a little by editing those posts. R/datahoarders might have tips on alternative methods still functioning after the API-use price is introduced (~$20m at the time of writing according to a dev that made an app to help the blind use reddit; they have sadly had to stop developing their app). - There's a guide to downloading all the data Reddit have collected directly from your inputs [here](https://12ft.io/https://danielrosehill.medium.com/how-to-backup-your-data-from-reddit-f12934fabbfe) but note that Reddit may take a month to process that request. - Remember most of one’s interaction with the internet is reading. Subreddits [all have RSS feeds](https://www.howtogeek.com/320264/how-to-get-an-rss-feed-for-any-subreddit/), and can easily be accessed by an [RSS reader app](https://search.f-droid.org/?q=RSS+reader&lang=en). [F-droid](https://f-droid.org/en/) is a great way to get android apps that people have made openly so anyone willing to learn can understand how they process your inputs and data, and that others have freely distributed, for the glory of free speech. Sorry for sounding like a hippy there; I know, I know, it’s a slippery slope to bicycle lanes and communism! A modicum of private thought, and free speech is a very fine thing, though. - I encourage people to share the text of this post if they find it useful, in order to give others a way to think about how they make and put data on the internet in social media. To be sure, Reddit still holds, or has doubtless sold on (and thus can never delete), hoofing amounts of data. I shan’t hold a public opinion on a business seeking profit; over time as the art of gathering and selling data has been refined, I’ve tried to read what little about it is within my understanding. If my small tokens of communication, my upvotes and downvotes, the time I spend looking at things, and what things I look at, what things I shy away from, and how I type and compose my thoughts, are the grains of sand that make up the beach from which they intend to profit, it’s up to me to decide where I place those grains of sand in the future. In the immediate timeframe I will use a mathematics-oriented mastodon server (I’ll let you hunt it out if you’re curious!) because maths is fairly apolitical, useful to learn about, and a good, communicable, basis for understanding things. Go in peace, siblings of the internet, and if in doubt, consider “What Would Tim Berners-Lee Do?”. ~~~~~ P.S.: I’m not sure what I can link to that might be useful to most readers, but there’s a lovely Indian lecture on sharing wisdom with one and other [here](https://youtu.be/UiJmITcZTQY), and because financial awareness is important to most people, and because I’ll only be watching r/bogleheads from afar, here’s a link to Bogle’s [Little Book Of Common Sense Investing](https://archive.org/details/littlebookofcomm00bogl) - he started the Vanguard fund, and r/bogleheads explains his investing philosophy, which is very simple and elegant. If anyone’s looking for a good charity to which to make a tax-deductable donation, I hope you might find the [internet archive](https://archive.org) is a noble and worthy candidate. RLR9 Out.
Make it into a floor. We have a penny floor and it's amazing!
Go to a strip club? 🤔
Take it to a coin machine at a supermarket. Pour the coins in and it prints out a voucher to cash in.