Doing away with copper coins

Henetha that was my first thought too. I’ve had hours of fun playing those 2p slots at the seaside.

I would miss them very much. I save 1p's for charity. And I collect 2p's to spend on the Tipping Point machines on piers or arcades.

I rarely seem to get any copper coins these days or 5ps come to that. Must all be in everyone's savings pots!

The WI have a pennies for friendship pot at meetings, which goes towards women all over the world who need it.

We put ours in the Macmillan bucket in Wilko.

That’s interesting Mrs mopp. I always thought it was to make us believe its cheaper than it actually is. I remember things costing 1/6 3/4, ie one and sixpence three farthings. Everything ended in three farthings when I was young.

Found an tin with old pennies yesterday, the oldest were from 1900. I bet there might be even older ones at the bottom of the box.

There is a reason for prices ending in 99p. It ensures the salesgirls had to ring up the price on the till in order to give you the 1p change. With a rounded up price eg £5 or £10, there is more chance of the correct money being offered, and the sales girl pocketing the cash as the customer walks away.
That was the original reason, back in the days of the small shopkeepers.

What about weekly wages paid in cash, after deductions often 1 2 3 4 pence

I save my 1p, 2p and 5p pieces for charity too.
This year I'm saving them for TWG nominated charities, on my second jar full so far.

Mine all go into a charity box for Mary's Meals.

Mine all go into a money box and the GCs share it out when they come to stay and spend it on books in the local Charity shops. I have to say that it usually gets some 1 pound coins added to it by GD.

I put mine in a container for Guide Dogs today, in Sainsbury's. Many others were doing the same.

Well now, my thirty something yearold son was like this, probably still is. Would cast all change aside, throw it away almost from a very young age.
It used to deeply upset me I was forever saying you must always always look after the pennies then the pounds will look after themselves.
I am not tight, nor wealthy, nor poor.
That particular son is now the more canny of my three, but I am still bothered by any cash waste since.

Not neccesarily. I save all my coppers and 5 pence pieces, then can empty them into the Salvation Army, Save the Children, or the JMA envelopes at Church. Every little helps.