15 things to use your spare coins for

Do you have piles, purses and pockets of change? Here are fifteen things you can do with coins besides spending them:

1. Scratch lottery tickets

2. Decide – ‘heads and tails’

3. Use as a golf or bocce ball marker

4. Create jewellery

5. Make a wishing well sacrifice

6. Collect coins as a hobby

7. Do magic tricks, like the coin behind the ear favourite

8. Wear one in your shoe for good luck (or blisters)

9. Use one as an impromptu screwdriver for coin-struction toys

10. Use in sanbags to weigh down signs and flags.

11. Use in a container as a rattle/musical instrument.

12. Cover your eyes with them as a party trick

13. Spin them (cheap entertainment for young children and twits)

14. Put them in a Christmas pudding

15. Stick one up your nose to get the close attention of the cute doctor at DEM.
 
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