to be annoyed by school's 'silver coins only' charity contribution?

[magaddict]

My DD came home from school on Friday with a money boz she had made and instructions to fill it with 'silver coins ONLY' for their charity week. I am happy to contribute for the charity but think that this is a bit OTT really - surely any donation is worthwhile and a box full of any change can amount to quite a bit if everyone did it. All the children want to take full boxes back to school (they have about two weeks before they are due in) and i feel like the 'rules' around donation are a little dictatorial. AIBU?

Pip , what your DD school did was great , and maybe what this school is doing is good too , just a different tactic . Not worth complaining about until the results are in .

Piprabbit - there are machines that do it for you now.

I couldn't get the committee to agree to the expense of a machine for use twice a year (after all I was the only one going through the pain).

Gave up the role shortly afterwards...

Coinstar charges a fortune though, doesn't it?

I would also read it as no gold rather than no copper.

Coinstar charge 7p in the pound afaik. Well worth it.

those machines take some of your bloody money (well the coinstar ones at the supermarket do) - that's why next January I'll sit and count my £80 odd quid out of coppers and small silvers by hand

Extended - both of DS's schools in recent years have done a "penny trail" to raise money - over 3 figure sums were raised by each school on all occasions (and no they're not huge schools)

Back to the OP - perhaps it's a bad way of saying you don't need to fill it with "gold" coins? Personally I find counting out 5ps MUCH worse than the 1's and 2s

feck that bibbity - 7p in the pound would have swiped £5 of my hard saved coppers if I'd used it earlier this year !