As part of my ongoing experiment to see if you can spend a silver £2 coin in everyday places... I "BET" you can't guess where I went to spend it today?
OK that was a bad pun but yes, you guessed it I went to my local bookmakers to try and place some bets using my coin.
First up "the Irish lottery". Pick 3 numbers, match the 3 numbers from a draw of 6 and win £300 for a £0.50 bet. So I took 2 of them. =£1
Next up a little 4 fold footy acca (or a 4 fold football accumulator haha) on the EFL cup. So for you odd folk across the pond, by football I mean soccer. With another £1 bet a possible return of £57.75, but I'm not holding my breath as I went for a few underdogs just to make the bet worthwhile.
Now I'm not a gambling man, I usually like to put my money on sure things such as gold and silver but for the purpose of this experiment I thought why not give it a go.
So if you're a gambling person, which way would you go?? Did they take the silver coin YES or NO??
Well I'll put you out your mystery... The experiment continues, I still have her. The 2 young cashiers working behind the desk were incredible helpful and one of them even knew it was a silver Britannia. Neither of them were sure they could take it and with no managers on site they decided not to accept it, although the one chap did offer me £2 for it... Good try kid!
Like I said I'm not a gambling man and although it's not illegal I always feel wrong after placing a bet so to balance karma out I went a few doors down to my local charity shop - cancer research Wales and left a little donation in the charity box. Plus if I do win I will donate the winnings to them too.
So where next?? Someone suggested a fast food chain, so maybe there.
ah man that kid should have taken it and swapped it for £2 out his pocket to put in the till! :)
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That's exactly what I would do!
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i won you a share in that @steembasicincome thing so you should start getting some small votes from them next week :)
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I bloody love you 💘
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Hahaha how about a pub hahaha Im sure they would have a different reaction to it hahahaha, but you should give that a try
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You tell me 1 place where I can get a pint these days for £2... Hahaha I'll have a go next time I'm out over Christmas
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keep going man, i bet you sooner or later you may just find someone in the steemsilvergold community that works in one of the places you visit, then that person will have a great rest of the day, off course after you leave they will put their fiat in the register and take the coin. At least you lose a coin and make someone really happy
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If anyone in the steemsilvergold community lives by me please hold your hands up 🙋That's my trouble I'm miles away from anyone that wants to grab a pint and talk precious metals/cryptos.
I've already made a deal with @russellbury that if I can't spend it in a few months, I'll give it to a charity shop.
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Loving this series Welsh!! You might have some luck in the new year. You have any chippy vans local?
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The local chippy is on my list. But like you said will be around/in the new year before we have 1
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In McDonald's try to go
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That's on my list of places. Even though I'm a "fatty" Im not a fan of fast food and I'm not going out of my way just to go to one. Next time I'm passing I'll go in and buy 2 ice cream Sundays, caramel ones of course.
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Lol..."so for you odd folk across the pond.." haha, thats me!
Interesting project, you'd think that eventually you'll get that cashier that will snatch that up in a heart beat!
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Eventually I will, this little experiment has actually backfired. The point was to prove you could spend silver as real money.... Not looking good so far.
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Still got it eh, someone will take it eventaully. I'm impressed that they could ID it even.
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The young boy(I say young but early/mid 20's) knew what it was and I'm sure he was thinking "maybe I could accept it and swap it out after" but because there was 2 of them he didn't take it.
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my sister used to work at a bookies and she accepted the £5 coins, i got a couple of them, she would just swap £5 for £5 and give them me for birthday/crimbo prezzy.
You should try a charity shop next, if they accept it at least you know it would most likely help that charity, it would be in their interest to accept it. You could get a pair of 1970's brown slip on shoes, an ornament of a frog sat on a lilly wearing a bowler hat, 475 Cathrine Cookson novels and an unused designer man bag.
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That is an extensive list of items..... Sounds like someone shops at their charity shop on a regular basis?? Lol
I'll make you a promise - if I can't find a shop/store that takes it between now and say march 31st (end of the tax year) I'll go and spend it/donate it in the charity shop
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