Loose Change for the Car-boot Sales

 Until the time comes when everybody has their own card-reader, the only way to pay for 'treasure' at boot sales is with good old cash and preferably £1 and 50p coins.

It used to be easy to walk into a bank with a £20 note and ask for a bag of £ coins. Luckily it is still possible in Stowmarket but they have to open a desk which aren't regularly manned (or womaned!), pay the £20 note into your account, put your card into their card reader, tap in your pin number (once you've found your glasses) before they almost reluctantly hand over the coins.

To save having to do this I still use cash - notes from the ATM's - to pay for things in most shops and then hang onto the £1's and 50p coins for the boot sales. The only problem is that I end up with a purse full of much smaller loose change which gets heavy, so I regularly  empty it into my change tin.

But then of course I have to go through the bank rigmarole in reverse to put the change into my account but that's usually just once a year before Christmas. But maybe there wasn't much in the tin last December so I didn't empty it because it's August and the tin was full.

Counting money is never a problem! so that's what I did.

I bagged up £32 which has gone into my account. Some small change that didn't add up to the right amount for the paying in cash bags has gone back into the tin.

Although it was my money in the first place it feels like I've gained £32!

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