are we being embarrassed into not taking our change?

^ LOL

I dont really care about 1-5p

However what I do find myself doing is breaking a £10, £20 or £5 when buying smaller items so I end up with 50ps and pound coins. They go in a big 5L water bottle and every time its full I divide it out. Got about £200+ out of it last time which either goes on something nice or thrown into the bank in the little plastic drug bags they so kindly offer.

Not free money but missing out on £10 of change a week is a good extra saving measure.
 
Abroad this is just normal practice though isnt it, i was over in poland at the weekend and everything gets rounded up because anything less than 1 zloty isn't exactly a lot of money anyway is it

Its only the opposite of suddenly needing a £2 coin surely and getting rid of the £1 note, inflation erodes the currencies purchasing power to the point where 1p no longer actually buys you anything, we are just not up the point where its acceptable to round things up all the time yet.

I started using my credit cards for everything all the time about 5 years ago to get free airmiles and cashback which i then just pay off as soon as i get on my online banking, any change i do end up with ends up in self service machines because its just easy lol
 
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Rikki said:
Thought it was that psychological barrier thing like £999 instead of £1,000
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If you went into a shop and bought a £99.99 item, there's much less chance that the cashier would be tempted to shove the hundred quid in his pocket that if it were £100. Of course thieves will be thieves but if it's physically rung into a till it will show much sooner than a stocktake. That's how I've always though of it anyway
 
What gets my goat is when at restaurants, waiters/waitresses assume the money you've given them includes a tip and don't put the billing plate back on your table. In their defence, I've never actually disputed it because I've never been anywhere with appalling enough service or quality of food when it does happen to bother asking for my change back, but hey-ho.
 
I bet most people who wait for their change are the type who refuse to pay the extra penny when they fail at filling fuel to a round figure too ;)
 
d_brennen said:
If you went into a shop and bought a £99.99 item, there's much less chance that the cashier would be tempted to shove the hundred quid in his pocket that if it were £100. Of course thieves will be thieves but if it's physically rung into a till it will show much sooner than a stocktake. That's how I've always though of it anyway
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Yes i think its probbably all 3 things, i went to damons restaurant the other week and all the drinks were some stupid price like £2.89 because all the bar staff were pocketing £100's of pounds in change! Buts its just as much psychological and the effect of inflation
 
There is a petrol station near my work that has big bags of M&Ms and such for £2.42

Not £2.49, £2.40 or even £2.45. £2.42... I don't even like that kind of sweet and never buy them but it really gets my goat for some reason
 
d_brennen said:
If you went into a shop and bought a £99.99 item, there's much less chance that the cashier would be tempted to shove the hundred quid in his pocket that if it were £100. Of course thieves will be thieves but if it's physically rung into a till it will show much sooner than a stocktake. That's how I've always though of it anyway
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7522426.stm
 
If it's under, say, 10p I almost always let the shopkeeper have it. I just can't be bothered to wait for the change which will only go home and fill up a change jar which will sit in the cupboard for years.
 
Ever tried to give the right ammount of change? For eample of you want is the paper and just put the exact change on the side of the till skipping the que? If looks could kill... People always used to do this but with advent of swipe cards and fancy tills it all but stopped.
 
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