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AIBU?

to think DH was being ridiculous not wanting to go in the shop with ...

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TotorosOcarnina · 09/12/2010 08:50

< < shock / horror > > .....change?!?

We ran out of bread last night so asked him to stop at the shop and get a loaf so I can have brekkie (can only eat toast in morning)

He had 3 10ps a 20p and a 5p.

I had nothing on me except an emergency £20 not for gas/electric.

So raided the penny tup and got another £1 in 5ps.

He looked at me like I was mad and asked if I couldn't wait till he got back and we'd go to the vilage shops (a 20 min walk) with the card.

Which means I wouldn't get brekkie till lunch time as we have shopping to do!!
Its change FGS the shop would probably be grateful for it!!

I said its not like your going in there with a palm full of apple pips trying to swap them for a loaf!!

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bruxeur · 09/12/2010 08:51

Not at all. I love getting rid of change.

Louii · 09/12/2010 08:54

Must be a man thing, I always count out the change but DP will use a note, drives me mad!

marriednotmulled · 09/12/2010 08:55

It's ok for you to look like you've raided the penny jar, but for a bloke it's a no no. So says DH

TragicallyHip · 09/12/2010 08:56

No he is mad! Could you not have gone tho?

TotorosOcarnina · 09/12/2010 08:56

Whats wrong with swiping the penny jar though Mr Married??
OK if I gave him a pag of pennies then I can see his point (almost) but nice shiney 5ps?? surely not?!

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stickersarecurrency · 09/12/2010 08:56

As long as he wasn't planning to stand at the front of a long queue and spend ten minutes rifling through his wallet mumbling about how he's sure there's another 2p in there somewhere - no problem.

GrimmaTheNome · 09/12/2010 08:57

YANBU.

He'd rather have a hungry wife than (possibly) have a shopkeeper think 'ooh, he's had to raid the change pot'

TotorosOcarnina · 09/12/2010 08:57

Tragicallyhip he is dropping the kids off at school and walks past the sjhops.

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mumof2teenboys · 09/12/2010 09:03

My oh did this a while ago in boots, the thing we needed was 99p, so I gave them the correct change. He asked me if we were poor

TragicallyHip · 09/12/2010 09:03

Oh I see, tell him he is a sod!

Most shops welcome change anyway, saves them going to the bank to get it

thumbplumpuddingwitch · 09/12/2010 09:06

Don't see the problem. DH has a "thing" about using all his loose and small change rather than paying with a note and getting any more change - so he'll happily stand in a queue counting out the small silver rather than handing over a fiver and getting on with it. That's just as annoying, tbh, if I'm with him at the time.

thesecondcoming · 09/12/2010 09:09

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LittleMissHoHoHoFit · 09/12/2010 09:10

Kill him.

thumbplumpuddingwitch · 09/12/2010 09:10

Sorry - when I said "don't see the problem" I meant I don't see HIS problem, not the OP's! I can see the OP's problem all too clearly - her DH was having a knob moment!

craftynclothy · 09/12/2010 09:16

My dh will quite willingly pay with all the change. I'm the one that doesn't like it...I worry that the price will have gone up 5p since I was last in and I won't have enough

LadyintheRadiator · 09/12/2010 09:20

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NigellaPleaseComeDineWithMe · 09/12/2010 09:23

There are legal limits of coins -if its 5ps OK but less the shop could refuse the money!

I doubt any shops would and your OH should just use up the change.

ANK OF ENGLAND NOTES:

In England and Wales the £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are legal tender for payment of any amount. However, they are not legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
COINS:

Coins are legal tender throughout the United Kingdom for the following amount:

£5 (Crown) - for any amount

£2 - for any amount

£1 - for any amount

50p - for any amount not exceeding £10

25p (Crown) - for any amount not exceeding £10

20p - for any amount not exceeding £10

10p - for any amount not exceeding £5

5p - for any amount not exceeding £5

2p - for any amount not exceeding 20p

1p - for any amount not exceeding 20p

kreecherlivesupstairs · 09/12/2010 10:08

Of course YANBU, he was. I do drive my dH demented by trying to use the right money rather than have a kilo of shrapnel in my purse.
He, on the other hand, will use whatever paper money he has then dump the coins somewhere for DD to get her grubby little mitts on. She is really sticky fingered and had about 14 euros of coins in ridiculously small denominations. And she knew to the cent how much there was.

marriednotmulled · 09/12/2010 10:30

It's the judgey pants factor- ooh, only got shrapnel, you must be really broke.

A penny pinching man is somehow seen as worse than a female 'being careful' in a blokes opinion apparently.

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