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Jamez wrote:Hehehe - I just had a mental image of Gavin going to Sainsburys with an old bag of copper coins, dressed in a tatty old tweed jacket with string around his waist and some old shoes with the ends cut off.

I'll have you know I just bought a fab pair of new shoes after work tonight.

They were an unexpected bargain when I was looking for a travel bag - in Matalan...

Do you know, of all the threads on here I've read, this one may indeed be the saddest ever.

Which must surely be deserving of an award - bottle of Cillit Bang on the way to Hyma.

Gavin Scott wrote:I sat one night with a with a tin of duraglit and polished all my coppers until even the 25 year old ones looked brand new.

Then I felt pathetic.

I'm comforted (yet disturbed) to find out that it's not just me who coin cleans. I cleaned all my coppers by soaking them in a shot glass of Cillit Bang. It was more of a test of the product than to clean the coins really - and it works.

That product, along with the aforementioned Cif, seem to be the two best cleaners around. Most others aren't worth it. You can clean nearly everything with Cif, oh and Vanish Powerspray for the all too often "Coke™ on carpet" stains.

Geez... I don't think I live in a typical student flat after all...

scottishtv wrote:

Gavin Scott wrote:I sat one night with a with a tin of duraglit and polished all my coppers until even the 25 year old ones looked brand new.

Then I felt pathetic.

I'm comforted (yet disturbed) to find out that it's not just me who coin cleans. I cleaned all my coppers by soaking them in a shot glass of Cillit Bang. It was more of a test of the product than to clean the coins really - and it works.

That product, along with the aforementioned Cif, seem to be the two best cleaners around. Most others aren't worth it. You can clean nearly everything with Cif, oh and Vanish Powerspray for the all too often "Coke™ on carpet" stains.

Geez... I don't think I live in a typical student flat after all...

Obviously gay, too!

Am I the only one who thinks cleaning coins sounds like the behaviour of someone with obsessive compulsive disorder?

White vinegar brings them up a treat though.