Poll: How do you deal with your SATANG coins?

[Jingthing]

Please pick the choice in the poll that MOST CLOSELY reflects your personal truth.

Satang coins.

Who needs them?

NOT ME!

How many satang does it cost to produce a 25 satang coin?

Edited November 24, 2015 by Jingthing

[wooloomooloo]

I save them and once I've got enough then I use them to settle my baht bus fare.

[Gutenberg]

I have never paid with coins here and I cannot even remember where all the coins went which I got back?!

[pgrahmm]

Have a few that dropped onto our concrete driveway......Been a few days and the girls haven't bothered to pick them up.....

Maybe good for bingo cards....

Usually toss all coins in a wooden vase......

[1BADDAT]

I donate them where there is a box on the counter. Most recently at McDonalds. Most of the time otherwise I just give them back to the cashier.

[NoshowJones]

I save them up and put them in a little pouch, then just give them to the wife.

Then she can't say I don't give her any money.

[pgrahmm]

Have a few that dropped onto our concrete driveway......Been a few days and the girls haven't bothered to pick them up.....

Maybe good for bingo cards....

Usually toss all coins in a wooden vase......

Forgot about the donation boxes....If small change that's where it goes....

[KhunBENQ]

I collect them and have a bag of coins in my pouch.

I use them to pay and avoid too much return in coins.

Thais are amused to see someone pay the exact sum.

Strange these farangs

[i claudius]

the wife keeps them and if there is a bill just gives them to me so they get used up ,either that or put them in a donation box if one is close to the till

[Langsuan Man]

They are for my Kathong aren't they ?

[BuaBS]

Money is money , whether it's 25 satang or a 10 B coin. If I have too many , I tape them into 10 B rolls , and pay with them.

[Jingthing]

Money is money , whether it's 25 satang or a 10 B coin. If I have too many , I tape them into 10 B rolls , and pay with them.

Let me confirm this. You tape SATANG coins into 10 baht rolls? Really? I find that very hard to believe. I have never seen that. Either someone paying and I certainly wouldn't accept that in change. Now 10 1 baht coins in a roll, yes, that is very common.

Seriously, why does Thailand have them at all?

I recently saw an item about U.S. pennies. One cent coins. 1/100 of a dollar. They cost a lot more than one cent to even produce and the majority of them end of not circulating. Tossed in jars and not touched. Such a stupid waste, of, yes, MONEY.

Edited November 25, 2015 by Jingthing

[SoiBiker]

I wait until I have a good handful, then go down to the Tesco Lotus food court at On Nut. I shout 'Scramble!' and scatter the lot across the floor. It's the most exercise those old farangs get all week.

[Aforek]

I answer " When the charge is 46.75 I actually pay the .75 with 50 and 25 satang coins (so you're the one!) (5 votes [45.45%])"

strange question for a poll; my turn to ask you : you never go to Big C, Lotus, 7/11? are you in Thailand ? many many items with 25 or 50 satangs

[Jingthing]

I answer " When the charge is 46.75 I actually pay the .75 with 50 and 25 satang coins (so you're the one!) (5 votes [45.45%])"

strange question for a poll; my turn to ask you : you never go to Big C, Lotus, 7/11? are you in Thailand ? many many items with 25 or 50 satangs

You misunderstood me. I never meant to imply that final bills aren't often using satang. I meant most people don't actually pay with satangs. For example, with 46.75 people pay with paper and just take the change.

[1BADDAT]

Money is money , whether it's 25 satang or a 10 B coin. If I have too many , I tape them into 10 B rolls , and pay with them.

Let me confirm this. You tape SATANG coins into 10 baht rolls? Really? I find that very hard to believe. I have never seen that. Either someone paying and I certainly wouldn't accept that in change. Now 10 1 baht coins in a roll, yes, that is very common.

Seriously, why does Thailand have them at all?

I recently saw an item about U.S. pennies. One cent coins. 1/100 of a dollar. They cost a lot more than one cent to even produce and the majority of them end of not circulating. Tossed in jars and not touched. Such a stupid waste, of, yes, MONEY.

There is a theory which I agree with that if they collected all the U.S. Pennies it would help to solve the national debt. They are millions of tons of pennies being driven around wasting fuel and efficiency at checkouts...etc

[Jingthing]

I've notice some places round satang items, either down or up. So the price might have satang but the total bill doesn't. I like that. It's defacto satang banishment.

Most of mine end up right on the cashier's counter unless it feels like that would be rude. To carry them anymore ... no point.

Some make it home to my jar. Never touched. Never will.

I know it's irrational but I am not comfortable trashing them. I know it's money and I respect money.

Edited November 25, 2015 by Jingthing

[Crossy]

They are for my Kathong aren't they ?

Although I ticked the 'jar never to be touched' option I suspect quite a few of them had a nice river trip last night. Much to the chagrin of those collecting the kratong cash.

[BuaBS]

Money is money , whether it's 25 satang or a 10 B coin. If I have too many , I tape them into 10 B rolls , and pay with them.

Let me confirm this. You tape SATANG coins into 10 baht rolls? Really? I find that very hard to believe. I have never seen that. Either someone paying and I certainly wouldn't accept that in change. Now 10 1 baht coins in a roll, yes, that is very common.

Seriously, why does Thailand have them at all?

I recently saw an item about U.S. pennies. One cent coins. 1/100 of a dollar. They cost a lot more than one cent to even produce and the majority of them end of not circulating. Tossed in jars and not touched. Such a stupid waste, of, yes, MONEY.

The 50 sat in 10 B rolls , the 25 sat in 5B rolls. If I don't tape them too much , the girls at bigc or lotus love them. Spare change is always welcome.

Now you mentioned foreign money : some countries in the EU want the 1 and 2 eurocents out ! Just ridiculous. If they want to abolish something , abolish the euro.

But no worries , the world is going to be forced into only electronic money . Governments & central banks want to abolish cash . A terrible idea.

[1BADDAT]

Money is money , whether it's 25 satang or a 10 B coin. If I have too many , I tape them into 10 B rolls , and pay with them.

Let me confirm this. You tape SATANG coins into 10 baht rolls? Really? I find that very hard to believe. I have never seen that. Either someone paying and I certainly wouldn't accept that in change. Now 10 1 baht coins in a roll, yes, that is very common.

Seriously, why does Thailand have them at all?

I recently saw an item about U.S. pennies. One cent coins. 1/100 of a dollar. They cost a lot more than one cent to even produce and the majority of them end of not circulating. Tossed in jars and not touched. Such a stupid waste, of, yes, MONEY.

There is a theory which I agree with that if they collected all the U.S. Pennies it would help to solve the national debt. They are millions of tons of pennies being driven around wasting fuel and efficiency at checkouts...etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_debate_in_the_United_States

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/get-rid-of-the-penny_n_4719984.html