4 hours ago, anotheruser said:

 

In that case here it is just for you. You can thank me later...

 

 

Thank you. 

Yes,  I understand now.   12 pages of comments!  

I don't use coins anywhere.  I guess that habit comes from my days in college when I was attending on the G.I. Bill, in the United States, on then, $210.00 a month.   Which money  would run out about 1-2 weeks before my next check would arrive.  I learned to use bills, keep the coins in a jar, and had money to use at the end of the month.  

As to leaving money out, I could use a similar philosophy as I do for locking my residence when I leave it for a while (I lock the doors to keep the honest people honest).   I could lock the money up, to keep the honest maids honest. 

Back to our regularly scheduled thread. 

 

In Chiang Mai, the International Rotary Club accepts donation of coins for their "Change for Children" program.  You can adopt a cute ceramic owl for 200 baht to collect your change and bring the change to the CMIRC members at any of their meetings or catch up with a CMIRC member at a meeting of the CM Expats Club.  All funds collected go directly to the club's  projects to help local children -- Children's Water Safety, Children's Eye Clinics, Burma Children Medical Fund's house in CM, Children's Winter Clothing Collection, etc.

 

I apparently have a ghost in my house. I am in the habit of putting all my change on my computer desk. By the next day it has disappeared. I may have found the culprit. My wife has several of those round bamboo banks full of coins. She manages to get rid of them to various businesses that are happy to change them for paper money.