Change machines....

[Fred]

Has anyone seen on their travels, supermarkets, casinos, nightclubs etc, what I call a change machine?

This strange beast is quite common sight in and around London but I can't find one out here for love nor money.

Before anyone asks, it's a tallish machine that you pour your accummulated copper coins into and they get transformed into something more handy and substantial.

I only ask because Madame Admiral has a pathological dislike of loose change, especially in small denominations, and has been hoarding the damn stuff in over-sized whisky bottles & etc.  Not that we touch the stuff.  Whisky that is...

Not seen any machines, but we also have a large Bells bottle that gets filled up around every 40 years or so. Mrs Fred assures me that she gets little clear plastic trays from the bank and or post office, she can't remember what they are called but they come in different denominations. She fills them up and takes them to the bank where you can put them into your account, and withdraw the cash from the hole in the wall.

On occasion they have given her notes, but usually they want it paid into your account.

Another option could be asking at the Laundromat on the other side of the road to Leclerc if she wants some change, it's called "Blanchiment d'argent"