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I use a little brown pot with a lid
It needs to be something that won't collect water - hence the lid and if you're worried about peoples honesty then maybe a moneybox (to make it easy to put money in but not so easy to take it out)
I use a little brown pot with a lid
It needs to be something that won't collect water - hence the lid and if you're worried about peoples honesty then maybe a moneybox (to make it easy to put money in but not so easy to take it out)
But if people are determined to steal they would probably take the whole box/pot/moneybox anyway.
I once bough 'Horse carrots' at the side of the road - I guess the owners must have had money stolen, as they had attached a plastic drainpipe to the fence, leading down to a money box under ground. Customers just put their money in the top of the pipe, and it's gone!
All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.
What a bril idea! I have visions of an underground bank with lots of little folk collecting the money or a network of pipes leading to a vault!!
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown
I've never once had money taken I just have a ceramic puppy water bowl inside my polystyrene box.
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If theft is a concern another option would be to have a box (tupperware? an wooden wine box? a magazine file stuck under the table?) with envelopes in it so people can drop the money through your letter box (assuming it's not a long walk from the pavement/road) - that's something I've been thinking about doing around here as I have a feeling a money box would grow legs.
Of course, people can't make change if everything is dropped through your letter box or down a pipe as described by G4.
Other possibilities are those metal biscuit/chocolate/sweet tins like Quality street come in.
A good combination for an area with an abundance of sticky-fingered sods might be a pipe to an underground box and a note to knock on your door if they need change and if nobody is in to drop the money in another time.
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