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[Spyder Rocket]

After living here 5 months I am starting to accumulate too many 1, 2, and 5 baht coins.

My bank branch doesn't have one of those machines that rolls them for you and I haven't seen one anywhere else.

What do you guys do with your coins when you get too many?

[Torques Hit]

Each day I pass my coinage onto the beggars in the street who more often than not use a Mickey D's cup.

[Spyder Rocket]

Yeah, but Phuket doesn't have beggars like BKK. I guess I could take them to a temple and give them to the monks, but living here full-time it adds up.

I've got a coffee can full of them after five months... I guess I'll hand roll them and take them to the bank.

[KendoUK]

I tend to keep them handy for Songtaew rides and feeding the drinking water dispenser at my condo. 

[Torques Hit]

A coffee can full.......Rolling coins is so painful. Don't do a hernia taking them to the bank.

[jimbo34]

 Funnily enough i can't get enough of 'em! I remember doing my first salary payout at C & Ds - i went to the bank with a list of notes and coins i needed.The teller dutifully counted out the notes, but when it got to the coins section she said "solly, no hab"! WTF?? I remember ranting in the the poor girls face telling her that this is a bank and i expect to get the coinage required. It took a few minutes faffing around in the various tellers coin trays before i finally got what i needed.

 Wiser now, i save my coins so that i don't need that sort of palarver on payday.

[Spyder Rocket]

I tend to keep them handy for Songtaew rides and feeding the drinking water dispenser at my condo.

You sound like a Pattaya guy with that idea, unfortunately Phuket's Tuk Tuks are a little more expensive than that. I'm pretty sure of the reaction I would get trying to pay for a 400 Baht Tuk Tuk ride with a giant bag of coins. It might make a good YouTube video though.

The 10 baht coins are useful for water machines and doing laundry, but of course I rarely get those in change.

[Surin Nix]

I accumulate them in a coffee cup on my dresser daily. When the cup gets full, I put them in a plastic Family Mart bag and then select a random beggar, and there are more in Patong than where you are Spyder, and give that person the entire bag. There are some wretched and unfortunate beggars who are elderly or who have terrible birth defects. Then, I repeat the process, accumulating the next cupful on the dresser.