Planned Savings

Advantages: ICE CREAMS FOR THE GRAND KIDS
Disadvantages: SLIPPED DISCS

Me and my by far better half (Jane WE'VE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 40 YEARS) you know the sort of thing. Well it was August 2nd 1999 and we had just been to visit our new Grand daughter CHOLE ELIZABETH (this pleased Jane as Elizabeth is her middle name) Anyway we were standing at the Bus Stop waiting for the Rainbow 1 (don't they give buses some strange names nowdays). We were sharing cooing noises when I spied a rather dirty PENNY in the gutter. I said ...
...on the floor but because of the value decide it is not worth a slipped disk picking them up. Lets be different I said and picked it up. "What are you going to do with that" says Jane. I HEREBY NAME YOU A CHOLE PENNY I said and I would make use of the TREMAR POTTERY CAT MONEY BOX on our kitchen window that is penniless. So started a career of picking up pennies. 3oth December 2001 along came grandchild number 2, ABIGAIL RIANNE. so we had to amend ... Read review

Advantages: It costs nothing to look
Disadvantages: Some money is very dirty, and run over.

Robert and I also pick up "DIRTY MONEY" and as we have only one granchild Callum it all goes into his savings box. I picked up this year so far, 2 £10 notes. One in the locoal Queensgate Shopping Centre, which I assume alot of people had walked past. Another at a bus stop on my way to the pub. It was dark and Rob and I were walking to the pub and there it was lying in the gutter, dirty. Could have used it to buy a pint but as we had agreed any money ...
...I would say that again over the course of the year £60 is easliy reached. It takes alot of bending, and sometimes you get a very strange look just bending over to pick up the odd penny, but every little helps. We have visions of Callum when older taking his bag of pennies to the Students Union Bar, and buying himself a pint with them and telling people that the drinks a re on Nanna and Grandad. Yammas. ... Read review