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   02/07/2009, 20:14
Jay is not online. Last active: 15/08/2010 19:48:59 Jay

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CA no longer charge for using their online service and in fact have not done so for some considerable time. It used to be 0.50€ to access your account but even then you could have had a free password that would allow you to look at your account but not do transfers etc.  I suggest you contact your branch for a password.

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   08/05/2010, 23:03
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Have tried a search for this, but not come up with much.   Do the banks in France have change bags as they do in UK, or something similar which we can ask for, we have recently emptied our change jars and have around 68 euros in small change which we need to get changed into something sensible or banked into our French a/c.  In UK, I would either bank it or take it to one of those change machines in the supermarket, but haven't seen anything like that here.



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   09/05/2010, 7:40
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CA will supply disposible moulded coin holders. It's like a plastic tube cut down one side, holds an exact number of coins in a column, then then the two halfs (halves?) fold together again. Very efficient.

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   09/05/2010, 8:42
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Our local greengrocer very happily took small change from me, so I then started filling a plastic cash bag, he would count it out and give me the difference between what my veg cost and what was in the bag. He now no longer counts it, just asks how much is in it - I was flummoxed the first time, as I hadn't a clue. So now I take a bag of all the little tiddlers along, tell him what's in it, and we're done. All very amicable, and no purse, pockets or drawers full of tiddlers - and before anyone pipes up, the wooden sort, not fancy pants!  Big Smile [:D] 
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   09/05/2010, 8:54
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I spend my small change as I go. The shopkeepers, stallholders etc are only too pleased when I pay with shrapnel and I don't have to worry about finding tubes, small plastic bags and that ilk.

John

 


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   09/05/2010, 16:26
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deleted.  Oops - I read the original title of this thread then noticed too late that it had changed tack.Woot! [:-))]

Is everybody getting rid of their change at the moment? :

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   09/05/2010, 17:00
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Copper coins mostly go in bag to be given to Les Amis de Chats or other charity.

When we were burgled they took the then bag, there must have been all of €5 in it !


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   09/05/2010, 21:17
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I saved up my loose change for a couple of years and used it to pay the 25% deposit on my house in 1984.

Mind you to achieve this I only spent notes and saved all the change including the £1 coins, so I would use a £5 note to buy a 25p coffee and put £4.75 in the piggy bank.


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   10/05/2010, 13:54
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Back to the original thread.....

Our bank Banque Populaire in Boulogne sur Gesse stopped taking cash over the counter a little while back. To get to the cashier it was via two doors that you had to signal you wanted admittance and they would release the first and, once inside the first the same process for the second - which seemed fairly secure.

Now, you now just enter via the first door and place the cash in an envelope and deposit it in a 'drawer' and this is available from early in the morning to late at night. The longer hours are more convenient.

Paul

 


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