To ask how to stop DH leaving coins everywhere?

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DH has annoying habit of leaving tiny piles of loose change from emptying out his pockets all over the place, Im fed up of scraping coppers into a jam jar which then sits round for eternity looking crap before I have to separate them all out into bags to pay in or find a charity bucket.

any tips on how to stop him from doing it in the first place? It’s a dust magnet and worried about risk of Baby finding a pile once he’s older and putting them in his mouth!

Believe- we had a big, blazing row last night on this very subject

I don't mind the coins so much, it's the little shreds of tissue and pocket fluff in amongst them that boils my piss.

Bowls upstairs and down.

The rest of of us now raid it for coins. The youngest has collected the 2p s to take to the bank.

Ah bad times Brutus I’m guessing that this isn’t the first time you’ve argued about it...? I know my dh falls into bad habits because his mum did everything around the house so it’s ingrained. But he is at least aware of that!

DP used to be guilty of this - he had piles of coins in every single pocket and on every single surface at one point.

I started taking them and spending them - he moaned and said it was his money, and I said well, if you're going to keep leaving them lying around where the dog/cats can eat them, then I'll keep moving them because it's dangerous. If you don't want me taking it, put it away properly!

MY DH has a coin bowl in a kitchen drawer. We all raid it for small change if we're just nipping across to the shop over the road for something and seem to get through it that way

This will be of no use to you yet but my 5 year old collects all the change that his dad leaves lying around and puts it in his piggy bank. (He has his dads permission and he knows only to take his dads change and no pound coins). We opened it just before our holiday and he had just over £100 in it 😳
I think I'll start collecting them now 😂

Why are you scurrying around picking up after him?

Stop it. Surely he would have to pick them up when he does his share of the cleaning?

This.

Please don’t use Supermarket Counstar type machines! Why should they get commission from your painstakingly collected coins?

Take them bagged correctly to the bank.

I got a coin sorter (in a present from dh.) I actually really like it. DH needs £1 coins and 50p for work so he regularly sorts through his change and pops it in machine, instead of leaving piles.
I bag up the dross and take it to the bank.
Adult DS has a bowl he's been trained to use. He was terrible. Little piles of coins all over the place. If he ever tidies his room properly he's probably got a small fortune up there.

My DH does clean but neither of us are particularly tidy.

I drop coins on the floor out of my trouser pockets so we can be both as bad as each other. He picks up coins and now puts them in the bowls.

I did come up with the genius notion of putting bowls out. Although I see this thread shows simultaneous invention..

We have a pretty little box with a lid where dp keeps his wallet and keys, big coins (down to 20ps) go in there. That gets used for the odd bus fare, bits from the corner shop etc.

Everything else gets shoved in the enormous copper jar under the sink and banked when it gets full.

Anything nót in those two places is mine and is usually frittered away in coffee shops

Wow - Cherry pie - that's better than the machine in the supermarket who take a cut from you!

Anyone with lots of foreign currency coins/small notes, or out of date coins - if you have a Fourex.com machine anywhere near, you can turn them into proper money! They take umpteen sorts and even old pesetas, francs, etc.
We rounded up masses of bits ancient and modern, inc. small notes the banks won't take, and came back with £90!
Did the same with all the bits lying around a dd's house and got £60 for her.

Could you donate them to charity? You know, maybe help someone who has real problems.

Can't you just get a money box for the child? Then he goes and pays it into DC's account when its full.

Men don't have purses or handbags. I'm sure this is why many of them are disorganised.

I see anyone who uses cash at all as probably a big disorganised.

Not only do I not have purse or a handbag, I no longer even take a wallet with me when I leave the house. I might take a credit card if I'm expecting to spend money. Even if I'm not expecting to, if I go somewhere in the car, a spare one is kept there.

Not only do I not accumulate coppers, or other coins, I don't even routinely keep notes of any kind.

(The exception is that DW throws a supply of £1 coins my way, which I keep in the car with the spare credit card, and use to pay for parking at the only place I go to that still wants cash for this.)

Based on my life, I see no need to possess cash of any denomination at all.

My DH does thing. I just scrape them straight into my purse and the put them into the self checkout machines when I buy some milk or whatever.

My dh does this but I have now trained him out if it! When I moved in with him and we cleared his flat out I found over £100 in change just scattered on surfaces and on the floor throughout the place!

Those coins would be MINE.

Er spend them?

We have an old wooden chest we use to collect loose change which is used for extra food at Christmas. Contributions are supposed to be voluntary but I have made it clear to DH that any change he leaves out is appropriated for this fund, and goes straight into the box.

DH stopped doing this when DS (5) started collecting them up for him and putting them into a box. After a fortnight he'd collected about £5 in various loose change and insisted he be taken out to spend it. Think DH got a bit of a shock at just how much change he'd been wasting.

Doesn't help you right now with a baby though, sorry.

We have multiple coin stashes around the house.What cured OH of random piles of coins was DS as a toddler collecting them and keeping them. Including a couple of stray £20s that he left on top of the microwave. DS thought of ‘found money as his.
Collect it, bag it, spend it.

Cross post, Ohlook!