Loose change is on the move.

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For the first time in ten years in the U.K cash uses has gone up. I think its people getting rid of their copper coins as recession edges closer. Bank branches are closing on the highstreet so for cash fans like me two things are happening. One is I'm still drawing out money from cash machines to support remaining banks so they are there for older and disabled people to use and second is I'm using up my coin jar piggy bank coppers (pennies and two pence) as no point saving them now. For some reason we dont like to carry around our smallest coins so we store them up in jars and tins etc and change them to notes every ten years or so. Well Im using up mine and no longer storing them and its almost like having free money. You feel like you have got a discount on food stuffs if you use these coins,. I'm also doing that because I know I wont be able to change the coins back to notes as all the banks eventually close, the only place to change them to paper.