If you’ve lived here or live here and know then please share. 1 and 5 yen coins are the bane of my existence. 19’s are you there but at least you can spend those relatively quickly. What do some of you do with the little coins? Is there a constant equivalent? Do you just use them as golf ball markers? Please, reveal your secrets!
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Learn math.
Then use them at combinis.
Whenever there’s a counter that accepts coins I just drop all the small one’s in 😂
You use them to pay for things. You have a habit of accumulating them. Break the habit and form a new one where you try to get rid of them when you pay cash.
Drop em lff at the local shrine.
Don’t be like me and collect literal kilograms of each over a few years.
I couldn’t realistically spend them ever at this point.
Yet I still hate digging around for exact change so much that I never do it.
This has been asked so many times. learn math and do strategic overpayment. instead of paying 100 for 97 item, pay 102 and get rid of two 1s and get back a 5.
better yet switch to cashless.
I rarely have lots of coins at the same time. Always spend them whenever I have a chance, but the most often at konbini then 100yen shops
Pay off the odds with them to get whole coins or banknotes?
If I have to pay 952¥ for something I hand out 1002¥ and get a 50¥ coin back.
https://www.pocket-change.jp/ja/where-to-find/
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
You can go to a bank and just exchange them for larger notes.
Or use at 711, as they all have those automatic coin counters now, so you don’t have even need to feel guilty using 78 one yen coins.
Shovel ‘em into yer gob, sharpish
Try to reduce the amount of small change you get by giving them small change when you pay.
When you go shopping, go to self-service and chuck in a load of coins when you pay.
Have a coin purse and overpay so you get back less coins than you give to the person taking the money or dump them into the machines that take your cash at the convenience store or grocery store.
Move to cashless payments if possible.
Coins should not be a problem at all unless you allow them to be a problem by going out of your way to not use them.
Khajiit has wares if you have coins
I unload at 7/11. Esp now since you pay at the machine. I’ll look and make sure it isn’t a line and I drop all that shit in there lol. Use all the loose change I have then pay whatever is left
I don’t get your question. They are used a lot of times items sold with pennies like 132 or 1085. You also can combine them like 10 1 yen = 10.
Get yourself a coin holder and you’ll use them easily without holding the line. And you’ll see people say sugoi!
Look up coin holder on Amazon
I think it’s a hassle to count out coins every time I go to the conbini, so I always pay with bills. Then when I go to the supermarket I dump all my coins from the past few days into the payment machine first to get rid of them and then put in bills to pay the difference.
Many shops/combini have a small charity box by the register. Just pop them in there when you get them as change if you find them a pain.
I use SMBC and dump them in the ATM every few months. takes about 15 minutes… there’s no charge…
Take them to the bank and dump them into your acc – at mine there’s a machine that accepts coins.
Make a habit of carrying 9円 in your pocket at any given time.
Some conbini have machines to handle your money now, buy something, dump ’em all in and accept whatever it gives you back.
I’ll give you an actual solution.
Dropping them in a donation box somewhere won’t help because the problem is that you are accumulating them. Getting rid of them will only solve the symptom, not the root cause. The root cause is that you’re not using them when you pay for things, so you accumulate them. I never have more than 99 yen in 50, 10, 5, and 1 yen coins. Here’s how I do it with guide to help prevent them from accumulating in the first place:
When you go up to the register, put your groceries/merchandize on the counter and immediately pull out all your 1, 5 and 10 yen coins.
**1-yen coins**
* If the total ends with 1 or 6, put down one 1-yen coin.
* If the total ends with 2 or 7, put down two 1-yen coins.
This ensures you never have more than four 1-yen coins at any time because the change will either be given in only 10-yen coins or larger, or a single 5-yen coin instead of 1-yen coins. Example: your total is 1,768 yen. You should use three 1-yen coins.
**5-yen coins**
* If the total ends with 5 through 9, put down one 5-yen coins.
* Caveat: if you don’t have enough 1-yen coins to follow the first rule, put down one 5-yen coin for 1 through 4 too.
This ensures you never have more than one 5-yen coin. Example: your total is 1,768 yen. You should use one 5-yen coin. If you didn’t have three 1-yen coins, put down two 5-yen coins if you have (you shouldn’t if you’re doing it right), otherwise don’t use any 5-yen coin.
**10-yen coins (same logic as 1-yen coins)**
* If the total ends with 1X or 6X, put down one 10-yen coin.
* If the total ends with 2X or 7X, put down two 10-yen coins.
* Caveat: if you can’t make up X with 1 and 5-yen coins, put an additional 10-yen coin in.
Same as 1-yen coins: this ensures you never have more than four 10-yen coins for the same reason. Example: your total is 1,768 yen. If you have 8 yen in 1s and 5s, use one 10-yen coin. If you don’t have 8 yen in 1s and 5s, round up to the nearest 10 (1,770) and use two 10-yen coins.
You could do the same for 50 and 100 yen coins with the same logic as 5 and 10-yen coins.
In this example, you could for example pay 2,023 yen (8 = three 1-yen coins, you didn’t have a 5-yen coin so you couldn’t make it to 8, so you round up 68 to 70 which ends with 7X which means two 10-yen coins). This would give you 255 yen in change. I didn’t know that it would give 255 yen in change off the top of my head, I had to actually calculate it after the fact to find out how much change I would get. But, and here’s the beauty: **I don’t need to know the exact change if I just follow the above listed logic,** I will always end up with a maximum of four 1-yen coins, one 5-yen coin, four 10-yen coins, and one 50-yen coin.
1- Install the game 支払技術検定 on your smartphone.
2- Play until you can easily score 20-30million points.
3- Use the accumulated knowledge to get rid of your coins and impress the combini clerks with your ability to instantly calculate how many coins of each you need to give to receive the least amount of coins in return
1. Actually use them in the store, tax for take-out food is 8% so you most likely gonna able to spend those 1 & 5 coins.
2. Go to an ATM, most of the ATM machines has options to deposit coins during the bank hours.
3. 7-11 convivence store, they have a self cashier machine where you can just dump like a hand full of coins when purchase stuff.
I like daiso coin cases, pretty easy to carry around in a bag or sth