Remember Mr. Piggy?
By Maria Hill
By all indications, the piggy bank is alive and well, although it may no longer be in the form of a pig.
During last Christmas season, I observed my 46- year-old husband creating a “bank” from a cookie tin.
He had the tin soldered shut with a slot wide enough to admit cash. He is saving, he said, towards shopping during the upcoming summer vacation.
My sister, who is a year older, saves fifty dollar bills in a peanut butter jar, and has accumulated thousands of dollars so far.
Garfield, 37, who lives in Montego Bay, has kept the tradition alive both for himself and his two children – he has a coin jar and a wooden safe.
Mellissa, a 32-year-old mom of North Brookfield, Massachusetts says her six- year-old son has a piggy bank and is saving to buy a farm....