Please lets surrender the coins in our possession. I hate those sweets that are rudely shoved on me by supermarket cashiers.

And why should i surrender? That's my hobby, every evening i empty my wallet of all coins! I love seeing them around they come in hand when "the month bends"

I am coaching my son how to save using the coins. He empties his piggy bank whenever its full (atleast once in 3 months). The trick is I give him all coins that make it to the house to keep. Mimi sita surrender zangu.

People seem to be missing the point here. You don't have to take the coins to CBK. All CBK wants is the coins back in circulation. Next time you need a packet of milk or a loaf of bread, use the coins. You don't have to use all the coins at once. Just make sure they leave your house pole pole. Stop hoarding the coins!!! That's the message.

If your kid is saving the coins, every now and then, take them to the bank, show your kid the deposit slip, explain to him the concept of banking and maybe the two of you can agree where you will be keeping the deposit slips so that he/she can be confirming how much he/she has saved so far. You can even go to the bank with the kid for good measure. That makes more sense unless of course you are planning to hire a lorry when your kid goes to college so that you can transport all his/her savings to go pay fees.

Let's cooperate with C.B.K. They have a point on this. Don't be rebels without a cause.

I despise it when one calls it hoarding. It connotes doing something illegal.

Unless there is a law that compells me to at any one time not to have a certain value and or number of coins in my possession, I will keep mine in a mukebe under my bed, especially those produced before 22 August 1978, in loving memory of when money was mbeca.