The tin opening ceremony

[jools]

Hah! Crazy you all do what my family do!
I've got one which says "Lose a lb, gain a £" on it. I started it when I started slimming world and would put as many £'s as I lost in lbs in it each week, plus any £2 coins that I got.
It's not being opened until the summer, so should hopefully have lost enough weight by then to have a significant amount to spend on a couple of new outfits!!

[dksbbs]

Not a tin but a demi-john which we started filling when we came home last year. It is about a third full already and Megan who is 7 has just had her birthday 4th January and said she wanted to save £20 of her Birthday money so she put that in the pot too Anyone got any tips (apart from smashing it) how to retrieve said £20 from a very narrow bottle neck

We use a gallon Whisky bottle for our savings, when the wife put a £10 note in as she wanted some change I used chopsticks to get the note out, one chopstick in each hand while the wife held the bottle upside down.

We emptied ours last week to bank the savings (To get what little interest we can), we started saving beginning of October and banked £182, there was about £25 more but we couldn't make up the bags to the right sums. Will empty it again end of March.


Dave

[duffaire]

Mary
Ref my last post.
Just so that you know it is not me after your money, I don't drink but I do love a big cup of tea I have to stay sober to push the wheelchair home with Margo in it psml

[reesy1959]

Tell you what George, I will bring boxes of teabags for you to drink while me and Margo can go and spend all your money

[duffaire]

Mary
What is money, never get any of that stuff, me a poor old age pensioner, got green shield stamps will they do by the way, I told Margo if she ever ran out of tea bags I would divorce her, we have bags of the stuff in the house and even more in the mobile home, so she must LOVE me

[reesy1959]

Mary
What is money, never get any of that stuff, me a poor old age pensioner, got green shield stamps will they do by the way, I told Margo if she ever ran out of tea bags I would divorce her, we have bags of the stuff in the house and even more in the mobile home, so she must LOVE me

Awww.............

[jambogarry]

our first tin is nearly full so we bought 2 more from the 99p shop ( cheeky buxxers charged me £1 each )

Anyway the first tin is nearly full and it must have at least £60 in it.
Thats our ICR transfers nearly paid for !!!!
Only 2 more tins to fill and we are happy

Icmeler 2009 we cant wait

[Gemma Louise]

We have sealed a celebrations tin up tight trying to fill it but now my mam and dad insist that we cant go into it until it is full, there is no chance it will be full by June

[dodge]

hi all
i started collecting my £2 coins last sept and my big whisky jar is on its way i put 20p 10p 5p 2p & 1p so hope i can save as much as last year and can then enjoy spending it in icmeler in august cant wait

cheers dodge

[salford_steve]

I bought a jar from Debenhams in the sale. It counts the money for you as you put it in. Was only 3 quid.

Steve

[jools]

Bargain! So do you always know what's in it then Steve?
I'm really impatient and always like to know, but sometimes I quite like the surprise of opening these tins and guessing what's in them! On the other hand I completely hate it though, haha!

[salford_steve]

Yes it's a plastic jar, a decent size. On the top it has a little screen tells you your balance, it also has a withdraw feature so you can take money out and reduce the balance. When you put a coin in it tells you what coin it is then adds it to the balance. I think they also sell them in Home bargains.

Steve

[KarenH]

love the sound of that steve!

i have a tin that i am filling with £2 coins, i am guessing its about half full,

does anyone know how much they roughly hold in £2 coins when full?

[Gemma Louise]

suppose it depends on the size of the tin x

[salford_steve]

If its a decent sized tin it must hold a few hundred.

Steve

[reesy1959]

Had a lovely surprise today.

We opened our tin where we save our £2 coins, and we had £508 towards our spending money for Icmeler.........well chuffed with that. Thats us been saving every £2 we got since last September.

Already started again today as we had a £2 coin in our change at Wilkinsons when I bought the Calypso sun tan lotion, so the new tin has already got company.

[dalin]

Gosh reesy thats a big bonus is'nt it? We have a £2 tin also and if we get half as much as you we will be delighted.Every £2 we get MUST go in the tin not that great when you hand over a tenner for something thogh and you get 4 £2 in the change.

[reesy1959]

We are exactly the same, every coin must go in, we are not allowed to spend it. I thought I might have had about £250, but I was gob-smacked when we counted it, soon mounts up.

[dalin]

Ikeep trying to see inside the tin but I can't It is getting heavy though so fingers crossed we will get a nice surprise too

[reesy1959]

I thought ours was nearly full to the top, but when we opened it today there was still about 2 inches of space - I wonder how much it would have held when full.