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Go on, find them at random, in your pocket and around the house. Then type the dates into here

1977 - 1987 - 1998 - 2001 - 2003 - 2003

So that is 28 + 18 + 4 + 7 + 2 + 2 = 51 years of circulation in those coins.

Think of how dirty they are.

Therefore yet again tonight I have, for the second time, done the *BIG HEWITT MONEY CLEAN* evening where I get all the coins from my house and clean them with hot water and CIF.

If we all did this every day our world would be far cleaner.

Personally, I would rather worry about the fact that my kitchen bin fell over just now and about 500 magots rolled out onto the floor. I screamed like a girl and then got my lighter and a can of Lynx and fried the bastards.

Ughh.

I have just taken all the keys out of my keyboard (and put them back again. Obviously. Otherwise I wouldn't be typing this you moron) and found a varied collection of melted chocolate, hair, dried Coca-Cola and generic scum.

I have also Dysoned my bedroom, pushed something I shouldn't have, thereby blowing dust all over the bed instead of sucking up the millions of crawling things as I had intended.

I woke up this morning to find the toilet making the noise it makes when it is refilling, even though nobody had used it for at least two hours. I went downstairs to find the outside of the kitchen window covered in that water, which had dripped down the back of the house and into the garden.

An unhygeneineicicic day for all of us all round really.

OK, I've noticed this too.

Where does all that hair inside the keyboard come from?!?! I'm not a hairy person, and yet there's always tons of it when I clean my keyboard!

I took home three keyboards from school to clean (from my office, not just three random ones) and one of them had a "Designed for windows 95" sticker on the bottom so god knows how long they'd been there.

Anyhoo under the little metal bits for the long keys was obviously the remains of lubrication grease which has turned into pus.

Once I'd Dysoned them, out, washed the keys in hot soapy water and drowned the base in CIF Oxygen before drying it with a hairdryer I then went onto the second one only to find wha appeared to be half a jumper under the keys.

1971, 1971, 1979, 1986, 1991, 2002.

As you said, must be filthy. Or of course you can use:

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.

My keyboard never housed any hair of any kind, until I stupidly shoved it in the box with my Mac when it went for repair several years ago. It came back jammed with bits of crap and hair on the inside of the keyboard. Either they saw my nice clean keyboard and swapped it, or Apple repair men are seriously dirty fuckers.

I avoid coins at all costs, if I have too many I keep saying fuck and putting a coin in the swear box 'til I'm back down to a satisfactory level. So no, I don't polish them. That wasn't the question was it. Tsk.

Ive got hundreds of 2p and 1p coins. I keep meaning to take them all to the bank and and handed a crisp new fiver. lol!

The Sainsbury's along the road has one of those machines which sorts your coins and spits out a voucher redeemable for goods or cash. Its a bit steep at 7p per pound but it usually gives me enough for a decent shop and some ciggies. Its amazing how it builds up. I've got a bag hanging on a hook in the kitchen for emptying my pockets. I like to pepper it with 20p's and 50p's, and you find you have a small fortune when you take it to the shop.

What the hell is this thread about again? Oh yeah, dirty money.

Frankly I'd have a shed load of grotty coins and I'd wear some yellow marigolds if you offered it.

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.