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schrapnel

20 Wednesday Aug 2025

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Today Peter and I put our spare change together and there was a LOT of it. Time to make some schrapnel bags for Nico. I started doing this from time to time a few years ago but (obviously) haven’t made any up for a while. At first Nico didn’t like them until I explained that they were counted out and were exactly 2 euros per bag, so he could just tell them that in any shop, etc, no problem. And I pointed out that they are better than the 1 euro coin I usually give him. Ever since then when I give him a coin he asks “y las chicas??”, so I’ll definitely be stocked up after this. 

bags o’ money

20 Wednesday Feb 2019

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In an attempt to “lighten my load” and also help out a bit, I’ve devised this new way of getting rid of THAT bowl of small change – YOU KNOW THE ONE. I mean, these days if I am going to get 1 or 2 cents back from a purchase I just tell them to keep it, although having a few of these coins helps when you need them – “that’ll be 1.02€ ma’am” –  in order to not get a whack of small change back.

So what I’ve done here is put together a few 2-euro bags of money, with a few 10, 20 and 50 cent coins in each bag, and then topped up with 1, 2 and 5 cent ones. This haul comes to about 15 euros, but you know, it’s just been sitting around for years. So from now on I’ll keep one bag in my purse to hand out to my “usual street guy”, until they are all gone and I can start over again.