If you have any paper 20/50 notes hidden under the mattress dig them out..
Legal tender will be withdrawn after the end of September..
There are 7 billion pounds worth of 20 pound bank notes and 10 billion 50 pound notes still in circulation...
My mum (later in life) would fold 5 pound notes into a tiny square shapes and put them into her holiday purse. She would carefully unfold it when it came to spending it on holiday ..She was so happy to treat us all..
Did any of you have a hiding place for cash ..?
I don't have a hiding place, but I do collect £2 coins in a pottery owl :grin:
money - isn't that the stuff that brushes our fingers on its way to the government?
Mike
I used to volunteer in a charity shop and was told to check books that were donated and some people hide money in them.
Seems like a daft thing to do but then I discovered that a friend of mine does it!
I have just a found a 20 pound note in a drawer.. It's one of the old ones.. Need to get rid of it...
I had a couple in my wallet from pre lockdown. I haven't really used any cash since then. I noticed them when swapping over to just a phone case with space for cards and notes rather than a separate wallet and spent them in a self serve supermarket checkout.
I still have a couple of old pound coins. I use them in supermarket trolleys there is one (B&M I think) that they won't work in.
Quote from: Scrumpy on April 01, 2022, 11:18:05 AM
I have just a found a 20 pound note in a drawer.. It's one of the old ones.. Need to get rid of it...
Years ago, when I worked in a bank, we were told that customers could pay out of date notes into their account but we were not allowed to just change them.
I'll keep Tracey occupied then off load it on her..
Quote from: Alex on April 01, 2022, 10:05:12 AM
I don't have a hiding place, but I do collect £2 coins in a pottery owl :grin:
I saved £2 coins in a terramundi. Over £400 when I opened it. Paid for my break a few weeks ago. :clap:
Well done GrannyMac... I seldom have cash in my hand.. Less so since covid..
Same here Scrumpy. Most of those savings were pre Covid. I sold an old silver teapot the other day. Just decluttering, but that money has almost paid for a short break we've booked in June.
OH ! to have a silver teapot... :clap:
You could have bought Mac's :grin:
:grin:
There was a sugar & cream too. It came from my parents' home. My mum said it was plated, but I looked at the marks and realised it wasn't. Only got scrap value, but that's fine.
i bought an old silver tea service about forty years ago...
i wonder if she still has it :?:
Years ago when I lived in Wealdstone. There was a house I passed on my way to the High Street. looked derelict, overgrown front garden, blackened windows with ragged curtains, you would never have thought anyone lived there, but I found out later someone did. The old chap died and when they went in to clear the house, I was told that there were piles of cash in hiding places all over the house, even cash in the oven, it all came to quite a large sum apparently, fancy living like that and having savings?
That is so interesting..
Have read a few stories of people living alone.. No sign of wealth or comfort..
Only to find they are indeed wealthy.. Usually some long distant relative who never knew she had a great aunt Mabel will inherit thousands..
Great. I don't know about any great aunt Mabel. When do you reckon my cheque will arrive? :smiley:
Cheque.!!! Who does cheques any more..!!
I do - although nothing like as often as used to be the case
Mike
I don't if I can help it but should one turn up for a few hundred thousand I'd likely get of my butt and take it into town....
If you have a few you CBA with Scrumpy countersign and post them to me. I'll do a bank transfer. For the stamp.