Money Boxes.

[Georgiesmum]

Do any of you, your children or your grandchildren regularly use money boxes, or something similar as a regular way of saving money indoors, or is that all now a thing of the past?

[dannyk13]

I have a money box given away by Yorkshire Bank over thirty years ago and I use it to save 20p pieces.

[woofgang]

I chuck my change in a beer mug. I use it to top up the purses I keep in my car and handbag which are there to buy parking tickets. When the mug gets full, I count it up, pay it into the bank and spend it.

[ummmm]

I have a money jar in most rooms. My son saves in a money box. The ones you can only get into with a tin opener.

[gness]

Hi, GM.......I have a glass handbag in which I save two pound coins.....
These used to be given to the daughter when she came home from Uni....but no longer....

Think I'm at about £240 now.....x

[catswhiskas]

We have a large pink pig, which we put all small change in, then put into one of those change machines at supermarket.

[237SJ]

I`ve got a large china pig in the bedroom that I put £1 coins in. It got quite a smile at the checkout in the garden centre when I bought it. I`ve also got a metal tin money box which resembles the hotel where I got it. It had freebie sweets in it so I threw them away and kept the tin. When I came out of the union at work, I put what would have been my monthly subscriptions in it and every now and again it gets raided for "treats".

[horseshoes]

I put my loose change in a tin. I use this money for playing cards once a week. I also put my £2 coins in a pot.

[marval]

I have a Tatty Teddy money box. I put loose change in it, copper and silver. It then gets counted up and paid into the bank.

[Stephen_G]

I used to use a plastic jar that had Cadbury's Roses in it, but now I have a 2-foot tall Coke Bottle as a money box. Don't think I ever had a traditional money box.

[Daffy6543]

My 17 year old son has a 'Stiggy Bank', its a piggy bank in the shape of The Stig from Top Gear helmet.
We don't give him pocket money as such but I put money in it regularly for him so he can buy games for his PC or consoles.

[boxtops]

Yes, we have two. One for £2 coins which go in the building society, one for the small loose change under 20p.

[Maydup]

We don't have any anymore and the young teenage grandchildren have allowances from their parents which go into an account with a debit card!

[Garador]

All our 1p, 2p and 5p pieces go into a collection box for the local Hospice, it raises about £50 a year. All other coins, with the exception of £1, go into a tub in the kitchen cupboard, when full we try to buy something we would like, but not necessarily buy. Last year's tub bought us a weekend in London.

By the way catswhiskas, beware of those supermarket machines, I understand they charge you somewhere around 8%.

[mccfluff]

i have whiskey bottle tins that i chuck loose change in, i very rarely use cash anymore so they're not as full as they used to be

[B00]

We have a little wooden beach hut which we chuck our change into. Every summer, I bag what's in there, take it to work, get it changed and then Mini Boo uses it as her spending money on our hols- hence the beach hut ;-)

[shaneystar2]

I've got a Cheltenham & Gloucester Paddington Bear money box in which I save coppers and 5p's and a big blue and white china pig in which I save two pound coins.

[sherrardk]

There's a big plastic coke bottle that change goes into (this is used for a treat) and the kids all have their own money boxes. They get 50p a week for every year of their age and they can spend it on whatever they like. There's also a jam jar in the kitchen where I put the paltry amounts I get from selling bits and bobs on Facebook.

[maggiebee]

I have a very large Hennessey brandy bottle and chuck my change into this (1p, 2p and 5p). 20p pieces go into a "self counting" money jar which I think holds about £300.

[mikey4444]

I put all my small silver ( 5p, 10p and 20p) into a handy little jar thingy, that
I bought in a petrol station last year. It counts the coins as you pop them in.
At the moment, Its about three-quarters full and it contains £102 !

I first started to put small change into jars a few years ago, as a way of saving the trouser pockets on my suits. Although I no longer have to wear suits any more for work, its become a habit. Each year I usually amass about £200-£250 that way.

I am looking for another jar to put copper in, but I can't find a garage that has them anymore. The thing I use is a bit like this :::

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DIGITAL-COIN-COUNTER-LCD-DISPLAY-SAVING-JAR-MONEY-BOX-COUNTERS-COUNTS-COINS-/371147471171?pt=UK_Collectables_Moneyboxes_RL&hash=item566a1cf943

Although I only paid £5 for mine. Very useful little jobbies, that I can recommend to anyone.

[Baldric]

Income goes into the Bank, we draw a set amount of cash on a Friday to cover next weeks outgoings, bigger things like fuel and shopping are on debit cards, anything left over the next Friday is deducted from the amount we withdraw, just a couple of pounds in the cars to cover parking, that's it.