Wear your headdress and medals as per norm. Tell people your boy is coming home. Chat up the birds if they're old enough..... ie 50 plus

Definitely seem to get a better response when wearing medals and veterans badge, it seems to draw a few people in for a chat who end up giving perhaps a bit more than they would otherwise. I don’t bother when doing door to door though only when static collecting. Can’t comment on wearing a beret as I haven’t got one any more.

I'm proud to claim the title of 'poppy seller' this year.

~DC

well done,, put a plaster on your finger,,,,saves holes being where there not spoz to be..

the new stick on poppys are good for plastics and leather... DONT even try to put a pin in a leather coat.

hope your tins fill fast and your spot is wind and rain proof.

Since last Monday, there have been two of us stood down at the Gosport Ferry. I'm a mere 40 years old with a measly 5 medals, but the other fella is a 60-odd year old ex 63(SAS)V Sigs bloke, complete with beret, blazer, badges and medal. He had filled 15 boxes by yesterday. He's loving doing it, it's the first time he's done it, and I think he'll struggle with not having something to do after Sunday! He has also remarked how much the public it has restored his faith in human nature. Right, off for my hour before work; if you see me, you know what to do!

Was at Tesco Shoreham yesterday. Usual collectors there with an interesting tale to tell.

At theTtesco car park they have a group of East Europeans doing car cleaning all day every day. One of them is a Pole. He is putting in all his tips. Why? because of the way his family (grandparents) were looked after during the war by the UK. Apparently the amount he'd put in at the point I had the chat with the collectors it was reckoned he'd nearly met all the other donations so far that day.

Oh and this area has been crawling with people wearing poppies for a couple of weeks.

Yep! Did it during the week..and you're both doing a great job be a bit breezy today mind you!

sat was my last day,,, only one asked me what the badge was :(... and he said he had been on this site a few years back..the oaks has as allways proved to be a goldmine, we sold out of stock friday night and had to borrow poppys to sell..

There was an ex-sapper and an ex-crab at Morton Park Morrisons Darlington last week. I stopped for a paper at around 0900, bought a poppy, dropped some cash and had a chat with the guys. The Sapper (who wasn't a day under 80) took great delight in taking the p1ss out of the fact that I was REME. Great to see the banter is still there.

I had to nip in for some milk later (bad admin I know) and they were still there...probably about 1900. Good on you lads.

You guys are great, you volunteer your time for a worthy cause. and have my complete respect

Here in my area of Western Australia poppy sellers are as rare as hens teeth. However, my work colleage and I managed to spot one the other day. He was a Vietnam vet, who gave us a few stories about his time in SE Asia. He ended up getting all my winnings from Tuesday's Melbourne cup and a hug

One thing which has baffled me this weekend. All the sellers are either RAF/RN cadet force or Legion. No reservists or regulars with zero visibilty of the Army.

I'm talking about the Brighton/Worthing area.

In London there have been people in 95s with NI daysacks on the tube network almost every day this week, no idea who they were cos I couldn't get close enough. But they weren't cadets.

we did have a few lads trying to get them into the army.. we did ask 4 of them to hang about the table for a bit to let peeps know we where there.. they said they would but would not help them with there job in hand as the poster we where useing was the coffin...

they did give a few bob in the box and make sure that we had tea..

In town today there were three lads, all very young and with visible disabilities. But they stood there, (some supported) with their medals on show and they looked really proud. So they should be, good on you lads.

Can anyone tell me when the feeling will come back to my toes?! Went out at 10:20 this morning determined not to come home till the last one was sold, took me till 13:30 :O)

Them?

i find a hot toddy with a little lemon,,works well.. thats after a few pints well done for selling up.. now the big count,,, hope you have good ladys who do...

I was out with my OH and son selling Poppies in Salisbury. One young guy (20ish) walked up and stuffed a tenner in the pot, and whispered 'Thanks'. Didn't even want a poppy... Another old boy gave me a small bag of change. "That's my small change from the last two weeks" he said.

It seem now that it's the old and the young who are wearing poppies. The middle aged don't seem to bother so much.

Finished late this afternoon with a collecting tin full almost to the brim.

Nah I think not, I said "people in 95s with NI daysacks" and not "longhaired guys in North Face puffa jackets with Camelbaks and a really good book deal"..

Never seen a stick on poppy in Edinburgh . All of them seem to be plastic stalks which are a bugger to wear since I use a piece of sellotape to stick it on to my jacket which lasts for a about 2 hours before it falls off