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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 2987629" data-attributes="member: 21843">In Europe we now have coins of 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, 1 euro and 2 euros. This means that if you keep all your change in your wallet, you have a lump in your back pocket that's so big you can't sit down. So about a fortnight after the euro was introduced, I decided that it wasn't worth it and just started throwing my loose change in a bowl and then taking it to the bank after 6 months or a year. The first time I had almost 200 euros, the second time a bit less. Then my wife's brother had a baby, and I decided that I'd put all my coins in a piggy bank and give it to him on his birthday. Again, it came to almost 200 euros. I started again after that, and promised my wife she could have the change at the end of the year, but after six months the piggy bank was full: almost 350 euros.The moral of the story: those fiddly little coins all add up. You might be richer than you thought.</blockquote>