'Prep Jar'

[Triple_sod]

I suppose you could say saving spare change as opposed to fluttering it away counts as prepping in itself, but over the last few weeks I've also designated a jar just for 'prep stuff''.

The way I look at it when you’re spending ‘normal money’ on prepping it almost always feels like a luxury, which is sometimes hard to justify in the face of other necessities. Whereas if I have some set aside specifically for that purpose, I’m a lot freer to spend it.

[hobo]

Think I might have mentioned before....every time we get a £2 coin, it goes into an old 35mm camera film case. The case fits 17 coins = £34. We're now on to our 6th case in 2 years - that's more than what's in our bank account!

Hobo

[jansman]

I suppose you could say saving spare change as opposed to fluttering it away counts as prepping in itself, but over the last few weeks I've also designated a jar just for 'prep stuff''.

The way I look at it when you’re spending ‘normal money’ on prepping it almost always feels like a luxury, which is sometimes hard to justify in the face of other necessities. Whereas if I have some set aside specifically for that purpose, I’m a lot freer to spend it.

It's exactly what I do!

[janso]

Think I might have mentioned before....every time we get a £2 coin, it goes into an old 35mm camera film case. The case fits 17 coins = £34. We're now on to our 6th case in 2 years - that's more than what's in our bank account!

Hobo

Glad someone else is in the same boat!!

[smileyt]

I have a penny tin. I pick up money off the street and put that in there, as well as all my coppers. It's surprising how it mounts up. I long ago stopped being embarrassed about bending down to pick pennies up off the street, needs must, waste not want not and all that!

[jean405]

I long ago stopped being embarrassed about bending down to pick pennies up off the street, needs must, waste not want not and all that!

Glad to see someone else does this, I get off my bicycle and pick up coins on the road, I don't care who sees me do it. My work mate had a good laugh the first time she saw me do it, and now we joke about it.

Jean

[Ian]

I have a jar with a counter thingy on the top as you put a coin into the jar it adds it tto the total so you know how much is in the jar.

I empty my pockets of change every night replacing the one and two pound coins and the rest goes into the jar. It is surprising how quickly it adds up.

My bank has a free coin sorter swipe your card pour the money in and it counts it and adds it to your account. Take care, some coin sorters take 8% as their fee, extortionate.

[theboss2010]

I always put my 1p's, 2p's. 5p's and 10p's in a jar. Once its full, I count it! I Got £61 plus, when sorted it out last week, just got to take it to the bank. That money is going towards my frontier stove which am after!

[diamond lil]

Great idea, well done In this house not a penny gets past the walking prep jar that is my OH. But his idea of preps is a new back tyre for his bike...

[damar2000]

I have a penny tin. I pick up money off the street and put that in there, as well as all my coppers. It's surprising how it mounts up. I long ago stopped being embarrassed about bending down to pick pennies up off the street, needs must, waste not want not and all that!

Keep your pre-1991 coppers as they are made of real copper and worth more than the face value of the coin. With copper increasing in value with inflation a bag full of real coppers might be worth more than you think.
After 1991 (or was it 1992) brass in copper coins was replaced with cheaper steel.
To find out which coins are real brass/copper you can do the magnet test (they aren't magnetic steel ones are) or the ring test (put one on the end of your finger and tap it with another one - a copper coin should give a nice ring sound, a steel coin a dead sounding metallic thud).