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Post by Jazz on Feb 12, 2011 18:52:41 GMT 1
Thought this might be an interesting theme....a survey of poster's childhood money boxes. Maybe some of us still have them....probably with no money in. The boxes themselves maybe worth money....you can tell I watch "The Antiques Roadshow", can't you! ;D Mine was a 1953 Coronation Crown into which you slipped pennies, halfpennys, threepeny bits etc.....birthdays might produce the odd half crown! Do kids still have them, I doubt it....its all done with "standing orders" etc now!  |
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Post by Ann1 on Feb 12, 2011 19:06:41 GMT 1
Just thinking about this, and I remember one I had as a kid, it was like a pillar box! The money went into where letters would go and it had a thingio to open on the base!  I used to shove a knife into the hole to get the money out!!
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Post by Shadow on Feb 12, 2011 19:12:19 GMT 1
Ive got one of those Lloyds black horse head money boxes-but its plastic. We do still use them-Ive got a china tiger money box which I use to keep pound coins in for the childrens dinner money |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2011 19:22:19 GMT 1
I had a huge Bells Whisky bottle.......................bit like this.  CWL  |
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Post by Ann1 on Feb 12, 2011 19:23:07 GMT 1
Yes, I've got one I use for 10p's, it's a china ladybird. I emptied it a few months ago and there was 55 quid in it!!!  Amazing how it mounts up!! I've got one of those big whiskey bottles, full of 1 and 2p's, it needs emptying, but I'm dreading it, it weighs a bloody ton!!!That's exactly like mine CWL!!!
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Post by Roma on Feb 12, 2011 22:22:00 GMT 1
I have one of the big bottles as well, I've never actually managed to get it full to the top though ;D ;D
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Post by Shadow on Feb 13, 2011 0:13:30 GMT 1
When I was really young I used to find loads of coppers-well I think it was actually old money-sixpences etc lying in the gutters.Picked them up and my mam gave me an old milk bottle to keep em in-even tho I think she thought it a bit mad. Wasnt so mad when the egg woman came round wanting paying and they had to raid my milkbottle-canny amount in there in the end |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2011 7:58:30 GMT 1
I had one were there was a little black guy with his hand out and you put the money into his hand and pulled a lever and it was transfered into his mouth.
Bet something like that's worth a fortune now.
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Post by Fairscup on Feb 13, 2011 8:12:03 GMT 1
I had one were there was a little black guy with his hand out and you put the money into his hand and pulled a lever and it was transfered into his mouth. Bet something like that's worth a fortune now. I had one of those, made of lead and weighed a ton,even when empty. It wouldn't be PC to say what we called it in those days.  |
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Post by Ann1 on Feb 13, 2011 9:54:09 GMT 1
I have one of the big bottles as well, I've never actually managed to get it full to the top though ;D ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2011 12:35:22 GMT 1
You do realise white fivers and farthing are no longer legal tender. ;D
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Post by Ann1 on Feb 13, 2011 13:08:59 GMT 1
They're not? What am I going to do with the ones under the mattress then?? ;D
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Post by Jazz on Feb 13, 2011 16:18:05 GMT 1
White fivers!!!!.....never seen one of them....come to think of it I'm only just getting used to the green/blueish ones!!!!!  ;D They are that colour aren't they, its so long since I've had one! Any spare change, guvner?  I do remember the silver threepenny bits though! |
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I used to shove a knife into the hole to get the money out!!
Amazing how it mounts up!! I've got one of those big whiskey bottles, full of 1 and 2p's, it needs emptying, but I'm dreading it, it weighs a bloody ton!!!
I've seen Newcastle United win silverware!
;D They are that colour aren't they, its so long since I've had one! Any spare change, guvner? 