Oh yes! we really need that extra money to make all the fae people come live in front of you, to buy the supplies to run our business etc...
Ever wondered where did the name Piggy bank come from?
What is a Piggy bank? How can a bank be a pig?
*~~Makes us wonder ~~*
In the 15th and 16th century Europe, there were no banks to put your money into. What money people saved had to kept at home. But people earned so little that they wanted to save some money for a rainy day.
The only way they could was to put it in pots and jars. The jars were mostly made of hardened clay as metal was a costly item then and people couldn't afford to buy a metal jar. Pots, pans, jars and other household items were made of an orange-coloured clay known as "pygg".
People would use a jar made of "pygg" to save or "bank" what money they could. When banking started, people realised that what they were saving in "pygg" moneyboxes at home was personal banking! Slowly over time, this "pygg bank" became corrupted to become "pig bank". In the 19th century, potters who had heard the term decided to make a coin-saving moneybox in the shape of a pig.
Pigs, in fact, have always been the poor man's asset. A pig would be fed leftovers and scraps of the table and be fattened for the butcher at the end of the year. In a similar vein, a piggy bank is fed coins left over from the monthly expenses, and at the end smashed to take the saved money out.
Within a short time this figurine caught people's fancy. Fancy pig-shaped money-boxes came into the market in all shapes and sizes, with cute noses, and curly tails. Naturally this caught the attention of the children and the rest is pig-banking history. As you 'sow', so shall you reap, as they say. There hasn't been a better bit of porcine wisdom since.
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Now we know about piggy bank and guess what..all the money..tiny puny coins collected by Triya filled up the piggy bank. One day she walked up to her mom stretching out her tiny arms holding her precious money in her wee piggy bank and said "Here's my savings, I collected to buy some gold. Can you take me to the jewellers and buy me a ring and a necklace".
Who would want to disappoint a wee little heart. Aww the mother used her credit card to buy her little one some gold and kept her little spirit up to save more money. Baby Nora was all ears to this conversation. ♥♥
Very interesting to know about the piggy bank.
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