Bugsy Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 We, like, I'm sure, many others, have accumulated a small pile of one and two-cent coins.Any idea what we can do with them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I get quite a few of these too. Where I work, one of the guys has a jar on his desk where many of us throw our tiddlers. Every now and then he gets his kids to count it out and he changes it up at the bank and donates it to local charities - he sticks the deposit reciepts to the jar so we can all see how much and to who. The nice thing is that the firm where I'm working does 'Donation matching' so if we collect say €50, the firm doubles it. Sticking coins in a collecting jar is an easy way of making a small difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonrouge Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I give mine either to our Anglican church or to the Cancer Support Vendee.Equally I have started to collect two euro pieces as part of the 'spending money' for holidays next year. Stupid I know.However now have over 300 euros in 2 euro pieces! Our bank is in Normandie and our local bank as we are not a customer will not accept them. Any thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 [quote user="Bugsy"]We, like, I'm sure, many others, have accumulated a small pile of one and two-cent coins. Any idea what we can do with them ?[/quote]Send them to me and I will spend them with mine in the boulangerie, they always welcome small change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 My baker takes mine, and even gives us the dinky little tubes to put them in. Not very altruistic, I'm afraid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 [quote user="dragonrouge"]...Our bank is in Normandie and our local bank as we are not a customer will not accept them. Any thoughts[/quote]Even your own bank may not want them. I remember trying to pay in a reasonable amount of cash, including a lot of small-denomination coins, at a local branch of CA Normandie, and the only way I could do that was by going round the back and waiting in line with all the defaulters.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I keep ours in a little plastic UK cash bag; when it's full I take it to the greengrocer. He's always delighted, although now he just asks me how much is in it, so I count it at home instead of him counting it in the shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Your local hypermarket may have a machine which gobbles them up and provides you with a voucher you can spend in store.Unlike similar machines in UK supermarkets, these do not appear to be owned by a third party and do not retain 8% as commission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pommier Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Our local SuperU (and the HyperU in the next town) has self service tills where you can pile in all the irritating small change as payment. It`ll count it and give change if you overpay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulT Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 We accumulated a large number of coins simply by buying something in a store and handing over a large note to save trying to understand how much the items cost - the language problem.I therefore had the idea - give them over at the tolls.So for one of our trips I did a route plan that showed the tolls and counted out conis to the value and placed them into individual bags.So the trip started - collect the ticket drive to the toll booth and the OH haded over the coins from the bag (RHD car). Got to the second pay booth and a note was handed over. As we drove away I enquired why the change had not been given over only to be informed that 'I did not want to be given the look I got at the first pay booth'.Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I went to the bank and got little plastic tubes. Over 3 years I had over €150 in change.I think they should cut out 1c and 2c pieces though, they are a pain and not really that useful anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsnips Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Hi, I keep them on the dressing table till I have a € worth and then I buy a coffee at our local supermarket bistro from the annoyingly dim trainee who works there. Great entertainment watching him trying to count it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardener Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I get plastic cases from CA and sort out all my small coinage and pay them in by putting then in the envelope and dropping it in the machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 I'm boring - I spend them as I go. As others have said, the market stalls, shops, cafes & bars are always grateful for my efforts when the rest of you keep trying to take shrapnel out of circulation.John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyinfrance Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Our local boulangerie charges E1.80 for two gros pain so that's where all our small change goes......they don't seem to mind at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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