How to make a piggy bank/money box
Over on Recycle This today, I’ve asked:
As I say in the post over there, my first project needing a moneybox is to retrospectively pay for the automatic chicken pophole door we bought last week. But I’d also like other piggybanks to set aside money for/from other projects – I find seeing money building up physically in a pot has considerably more motivation impact than when it’s building up symbolically in numbers on a bank statement.
So any suggestions on what I can do?
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My dad used to save all the change of certain denominations (20p and 5p I think) in one piggybank, and coppers in another. When I was really small, there was a nice job every few months in “helping” count it all into piles of £1 each, and then bag it and pay it in at the Post Office.
How useful that is depends how much cash you spend. He used to go to the pub a big, and card usage wasn’t so common then, so probably saved a fair bit. Now-a-days I can easily go a week without using cash.