A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned

In addition to the traditional dinner out for D’s birthday this week, the birthday plans included something really special: the Opening of the Pig.

My sister purchased a beautiful, white ceramic piggy bank either for my baby shower or when D turned one (I’m guessing it was for my baby shower because that’s what Julesie thinks and she usually remembers things better than I do). Ever since D knew what to do with a piggy bank, he’s been squirreling away money but never opening the pig to make a withdrawal. This was a separate savings plan from actually using his savings account at the bank, another method he actively uses. The pig was used for random change and, because he’s smart like that, a twenty dollar bill every now and then.

He decided that he wanted to open up the pig as a part of his birthday celebration, and we were all excited to see how much cash (and other things) would come rolling out of there.

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The paper money he pulled out of that pig was ridiculous. In total, it took about fifteen minutes to empty the pig.

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There wasn’t only American money in there: we found Bahamian money, Euros, Mexican coins, bus tokens, flattened pennies, and even a pop can tab.

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When the pig was empty, all six of us (the Fab Five plus D’s girlfriend) sorted and sorted, and counted and counted. We all made a prediction as to how much money was in there.

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When it was all said and done, that pig had $275.52 in it. Wowzers! Not bad for randomly tossing change (and the occasional bill) into a ceramic farm animal for nearly nineteen years, right?

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