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To be completely honest, $10/year seems a perfectly reasonable price to avoid the nuisance of having pennies in my pocket, or bothering to collect them all up a

• dspillett 15y ago
  I chuck 1p, 2p and 5p coins in a pot at home rather than ever carrying them around with me once they've got as far as home. There is a machine at my bank that you can poor any coins into and it will count them into your account with no charge. I do this once a year, it is only a ~10 minute detour on a trip when I was walking into town for something else anyway, and it usually works out at one 70cl bottle of Smirnoff Red plus a pound or so. So I'm happy to keep the small change. I consider it to be a free drink or few, in exchange for some minutes of my time. There are similar machines in supermarkets that give you a voucher to use at the till when paying for your shop, though they tend to charge (as much as 15%). They do usually have the option of giving the rest to charity though, if you are so inclined (but you could do the same at the bank and donate without some other entity lifting off up to 15%).