I really love this Country…..The Electronic Counting Piggy Bank

I have a beautiful new granddaughter this year.  So for Christmas I decided to start a new family tradition.  Each time that I see her in my lifetime, I will give her one US “Gold” Dollar coin.  Then as she grows older she can visualize how often her grandfather visited.  All I needed was one thing - a clear Piggy bank, plastic or glass.  So I searched in stores and then on-line.  No clear Piggy banks.  (This search started months ago.)  I got so desperate I even went into a crystal maker’s shop to see if they had or could make one.  No luck.

Then a local  Avon saleslady, showed me a clear pink Piggy bank. The bank stands all of four inches tall, if that.  It has a built in LCD counter – an Electronic Counting Piggy Bank.  When money is deposited, the bank automatically displays the total of the accumulated deposits.  While such sophistication is not my thing for a “tradition”, I had no other choice.  I was just glad to find the bank. 

The bank had the usual set of instructions printed in English and French.  Don’t other nationalities save money?  I  bought a can opener once that had the instructions in 6 languages (but not in French!).

Now while looking at the bank to prepare to wrap it, I came to the following warning:

“NOTE 1: When the bank has totaled a value of 9999.99, FULL will be displayed on LCD (7).  At this point, you should reset the deposit total.”

$ 9000 in a Piggy Bank? Do they really expect to fit $ 9000, no actually $ 9,999,99, of coins in a 4 inch high Piggy Bank?  And where is my granddaughter getting all that change?

I love this Country.  I really do….

So as you struggle with instructions under the Christmas Tree tonight, and worry about where you will get the money to pay off the credit cards after the first of the year, remember, boys and girls, that if you had saved your nickels and dimes all these years you would have been just fine with $ 9999.99 in your Piggy Bank.

Merry Christmas

Michael D’Angelo