Coinstar

I first noticed coinstar in Asda and had no idea what it was, it just looked sort of like an instore atm to me. Until one day I was chatting with a friend about what she did with all her 1p's and 2p's, she introduced me to coinstar. So I collected the familys savings, we have a big jar that throughout the year we all stick any loose change in and then give to charity at christmas (we do give to charity throughout the year). We never bother to count how much. So off I went to Tesco, the machine is hidden away in our Tesco and you would not know it was there unless you were specifically looking for it. It sort of looks like a noisy atm, you can hear ...  Read the complete review

COINSTAR Ive got a large bottle think that years ago it used to belong to my grandfather, think that at some point in its life time it did contain Whiskey. But the neck of it is large enough to house all my looses change, so everytime ive been out shopping, or anywhere in general, i place my loose change inside this botle, being three quarters full, it weighs a ton, but its a handy way to make sure that i save up all my loose pennies, five pences, it even fits £1.00 coins in it and ten pences, dont think that there are too many £1.00 coins in there though, it will not take Two pound coins anyway. The ...  Read the complete review

Coinstar. Ive been saving up for special occassions and also for that holiday and for christmas, as its always been hard finding all that money nowadays, as i cant work at the moment and have a little baby girl to take care, of along with the rest of my family. I had a large cookie jar and as it wasnt being used me and my partner just got into the habit of throwing all loose change into this, and its suprising just how quickly it all mounts up. They had a coinstar machine in our town supermarket, as most of these supermarkets do have and we took our money their. The Machine gives you really simple instructions on how to ...  Read the complete review

Coinstar a really simple concept that I'm surprised hasn't been around for longer. I used to see the Coinstar machine in Asda by the door and saw people putting in change and for some reason after seeing the receipt that came out, I presumed you then spent the money/voucher in store. After discovering a large bag of 1p's, 2p's, 5p's, 10p's and 20p's at work a colleague and I decided the best way to change it in to proper (notes) money would be to visit a Coinstar machine, so we went to our local Tesco's after going online to confirm that you can indeed change the voucher for cash at the customer service desk. Off we went to the local Tesco, when we ...  Read the complete review

Coinstar machines are something I had avoided for many years- my impression was you have to cart all your change from your change jar to the supermarket, probably queue with other poor people to empty it all into the machine in full view of all the rich shoppers and then the machine would rip you off and take a percentage for its maintance and upkeep (and the new cogs and coat of paint it is saving up for ), then you would have to queue again with your coupon at the enquiries desk with a load of disgruntled people who were returning cans of cat food their cat turned its nose up at and shouting... all for the sake of a £2 return..... Fortunately I was quite ...  Read the complete review