anyone ever buy stuff using only change?

[ericlee]

I've got about 300 bucks in change that I'm wanting to get rid of so for the past week and continuing on through this week, I'm using nothing but change. Oh man, the look on the cashier's face, hahaha!! Right now, I've been just using dimes. Been buying things that are like 15 bucks and using only dimes...

Next will be the nickles. I'm not sure about pennies though. Not even I want to spend 20 mins counting out some damn pennies.

[abcdefz]

I use change, but rarely make purchases of that size with just change.

Maybe if it's already rolled I will, but I usually spend change as I go along, except for laundry quarters.

Dude, the people in line behind you must hate your guts.

[ericlee]

I use change, but rarely make purchases of that size with just change.

Maybe if it's already rolled I will, but I usually spend change as I go along, except for laundry quarters.

Dude, the people in line behind you must hate your guts.

Oh no. I tell them to get in front of me unless they want to wait a while. The cashiers usually get fed up after counting 2 dollars worth and just end up taking my word that it's all there. Good thing though cause I had some middle eastern fils mixed in with it. I'll never be able to get rid of those unless I do something like this.

[abcdefz]

Oh no. I tell them to get in front of me unless they want to wait a while.




Well done. (y)

[ericlee]

and I don't know why but, there's always damn pubes in my change. I'll be counting it on the counter and flicking pubes away from it at the same time. Nah, that's not embarrasing.

[abcdefz]

I get that, too.

How? They get through the underwear, through the pocket, and into the change? :confused:

[Bob]

now i wanna know if there's pubes in my change...

[abcdefz]

Pubes = much change

[MC Moot]

Our 1 dollar and 2 dollar denominations are coins,so hell yeah....quarters go on laundry....dimes,nickels get rolled once a year for drinks on the plane to wherever,whenever holiday's start....I still can't believe yanks use a 1 dollar bill......I'm actually going to exchange a whack of canada bucks for Uncle sam sawbucks as we're at par for the first time in 30 yrs....very scary implications on our tourist industry.....:eek:

[Bob]

Our 1 dollar and 2 dollar denominations are coins,so hell yeah....quarters go on laundry....dimes,nickels get rolled once a year for drinks on the plane to wherever,whenever holiday's start....I still can't believe yanks use a 1 dollar bill......I'm actually going to exchange a whack of canada bucks for Uncle sam sawbucks as we're at par for the first time in 30 yrs....very scary implications on our tourist industry.....:eek:

i like coins and all but i think paper money's a little more effective overall. it's easier to lose a coin (and i wouldn't want to lose a dollar through clumsiness any more than i already do), and it's cumbersome to carry around a bunch of them. you can't fold coins into a wad

[MC Moot]

i like coins and all but i think paper money's a little more effective overall. it's easier to lose a coin (and i wouldn't want to lose a dollar through clumsiness any more than i already do), and it's cumbersome to carry around a bunch of them. you can't fold coins into a wad

Bob,it's the Masons,that's the only reason the 1 is still in circulation,it actually costs Fort Knox more to make and maintain than it's worth...the freakin mason's I'm tellin ya.......but yes,losing a toonie is weak,but finding one is a wee bonus.....

[Lyman Zerga]

only when i buy a porsche

[Lindsey_1535]

When I was 13ishhhh I saved up all my change untill I had enough to buy a degus thinger. Like a little rodent type animal! It was so cuteeee!
I was about 45 bucks, it was awesome!

And I just bougth a cheap can drink cause I only had 65 cents and no bank card. Grrrrr!

[skra75]

I buy stuff using change all the time, of course, I consider myself to be the most frugal man on the face of the earth. I'm more of an exact change kinda guy.

[paul jones]

I remember times when I've bought cigarrettes using 1 and 2pence pieces

'it's ALL there'

the look on their faces...

(y)

[tracky]

i had to pay for the bus with a $50 tonight so now i've got about $20 in coin + some notes. I've got no problems spending it though. I used to have heaps of loose change in a big jar but i'm pretty scabby and tight these days so it all gets spent before it has a chance to accumulate. I used to bag it up and take it to the bank when it was more than $100, otherwise i'd just take a few bucks a day for lunch til it was gone, the ladies at the deli don't mind and most of the time they actually want the change.

[Loppfessor]

Don't they have those coinstar things where you live?

[tracky]

maybe? what things?

[trailerprincess]

Don't they have those coinstar things where you live?

I love those machines, but they are so noisy. Last time I used it, I got about £20 for my coins which I then used to pay for my groceries. Resultermama!

Tracky - you tip all your coins into a machine and then it sorts and counts them. Then it gives you a voucher which you can exchange for cash for the amount you have put in the machine (less a small fee).

[jabumbo]

the most i ever did was going to the amusement park, i had 2 rolls of quarters/ ticket was 15, so i plopped em down and the cashier had know idea what to do. i had to explain to her that it was indeed real money, and that she should give me my ticket and the 5 dollars in change and let me be on my way.


back in march/april, i rolled my change form my piggy bank at home and had close to $500. it was well worth the effort

[hellojello]

Well one time I collected all my 5c pieces and decided to use them for a bus fare which was about $1.70c . There were a few 10c pieces in amongst there too. Anyhow, I hop on the bus, which happens to be empty and the driver starts on his way again while asking me what sort of ticket I want. I tell him then I try to exchange the money. Bad idea, the driver flips it and says, ''you can't pay me in that'' I say ''it's all there you can count it if you want'' and he's like ''piss off that's bullshit, and pulls over the bus, NOT at a stop, but along the side of the road where an old jail used to stand and now is pretty much vacant land, there was no people about and this guy is just yelling at me like a psycho about paying him in 5c pieces. I was so scared cause I was trapped on the bus with this crazy man I was just like sorry and ran up to the back of the bus. When I went to hop off I really wanted to tell the driver to get fucked up instead, I said, thanks because I always do when I hop off a bus cause that's just the sort of person I am...but because I was exiting from the rear door he didnt' really hear me and yelled 'what did you say' really angrily. I just walked away. Really quickly.

[abcdefz]

:confused:


That's nuts. Buses I've been on have always had coin boxes. You just dump your change in, it shows the driver the total, and he or she
waves you on.

[hellojello]

^^ The buses here, at least the one's Ive been one, don't have those. But still he was nuts it was only $1.70 which actually makes it what, 34 coins, not even...his reaction made me think he couldn't count that high or something.

[TurdBerglar]

imagine being stuck in traffic for 9 hours a day in a massive vehicle having to deal with customers. you're bound to have some bad days.

[hellojello]

I can't imagine it. I never drive anywhere. In anything.

[TurdBerglar]

well imagine walking through a very crowded very busy market and you're 150pounds over weight and you need to deal with customers

[DIGI]

Coinstar, dude. Hopefully they have one at your local grocery store. It charges 8 cents on the dollar and gives you cash back.

[abcdefz]

^^ The buses here, at least the one's Ive been one, don't have those. But still he was nuts it was only $1.70 which actually makes it what, 34 coins, not even...his reaction made me think he couldn't count that high or something.




....so.... you pay the driver and the driver carries everyone's cash?

[MC Moot]

Coinstar, dude. Hopefully they have one at your local grocery store. It charges 8 cents on the dollar and gives you cash back.


We have something similar to that at our big supermarkets it counts/divides the change,the money goes to the United Way and the machine provides you with a tax deductible receipt....I love feeding it my penny's.....(y)

[mikizee]

....so.... you pay the driver and the driver carries everyone's cash?

Typically you buy an ticket prior that you just stick in a machine as soon as you get on. You can buy an individual trip off the driver though if you don't have a ticket. He has a coin/change dispensing thing bolted infront of him, you just put the change on top of the box, he presses some levers and it spits out your change. (if you need any)

Being a bus driver would be one of the last jobs in the world I would take.

[TurdBerglar]

are the busses privately owned?

[ericlee]

There's no coinstars in my area. It's ok though. Having this change around is good for some occasions and it's always there. If it's in paper form and being that it's already declared as spending money, it will be spent alot quicker.

Paper money just doesn't accumulate too many pubes either. It's not as fun. I can however use leg wax, smear it on the paper money and paste some pubes to it.

[mikizee]

are the busses privately owned?

Here they used to be government owned until they got privatised just like every other service in the city.

[Yetra Flam]

hooray for privatisation, eh?

[tracky]

yeah hoo-fucking-ray...whatever, can't fight it.

anyway, yeah, as mikizee said you just pay the driver and he gives you a ticket which you've then gotta stick in a machine that goes bzzztbztbtbztzz and prints the time and date on the ticket. That costs $4.10 peak and $2.50 off peak and you can use it on any public service for 2 hours after you first validate it. Multitrips have 10 trips and cost $26.90. Everything you ever wanted to know about adelaide bus fares, right there :p

The other night I was sitting at the bus stop and a bus rocks up, not mine so I stay seated. This woman gets off and kinda walks off towards me looking at her watch. She hands me her ticket and says here I think this one's still got 5 minutes left. It was sweet (y) ticket didn't work but it was a cool gesture. If ever I see someone sitting at a bus stop that I get off at I'll do the same cause mine usually have at least an hour left.

[TurdBerglar]

here it's a dollar to get on and 25 cents for a trasfer. you just drop the change into the change thing right next to the driver or insert a dollar like for a vernding machine. transfers are just these tickets that have a magnetic strip on them. the change machine dispenses them with the information of what bus you got it from and at what time it was dispensed. i think you have upwards of 2 hours to use it. when you get to the other bus you want to transfer to, you insert the ticket into the transfer slot on the change machine. you can only use transfers once.