Replies: 21
| visibility 783
|
All-In [34486]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 13513
Joined: 8/30/19
|
Somebody mentioned piggy banks earlier
Jan 25, 2021, 12:59 PM
|
|
And I got to thinking that I haven't seen a Piggy Bank since I was a kid.
I got one for my birthday when I was like 3. I was small enough that I could sit on it (there are pictures of me somewhere) like I was riding a horse. It was totes cute.
Anyway, before Mom and Dad got a divorce, they got in a big fight on night. I guess Mama thought she was going to teach my Dad a lesson and busted open my Piggy Bank with a hammer right in front of me and my little brother. My little brother cried, but I was confused why she was stealing my money. Anyway, she used the contents for drinking money that night and threatened to tell the cops that Dad hit her if he tried to take the money away.
What are your piggy bank memories?
|
|
|
|
All-In [40798]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 42893
Joined: 11/30/98
|
no wonder you do drugs
Jan 25, 2021, 1:02 PM
|
|
Did you ever get your money back?
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [34486]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 13513
Joined: 8/30/19
|
Over time, I stole enough Coors Lights and virginia slim
Jan 25, 2021, 1:06 PM
|
|
menthols that mom's investment paid off.
And I learned to squirrel away lunch money in middle school in the top of my closet and act poor at school so the teachers would give me free lunch tickets off the books.
This scam ran well into the 8th grade before I was found out. My mom was rightly embarrassed. Serves her right for getting likkered up on my life savings.
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [79300]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 63195
Joined: 10/30/05
|
My first roommate at Clemson turned me into the RA
Jan 25, 2021, 1:02 PM
|
|
for having beer in the fridge, so I destroyed everything I thought might be sentimental to him. I think there was a piggy bank in the wooden chest his grandfather built him that I chopped up with a machete.
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [78976]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 24862
Joined: 8/29/12
|
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucckk***
Jan 25, 2021, 1:05 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [105164]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 65041
Joined: 12/2/02
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [79300]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 63195
Joined: 10/30/05
|
We used to call that 'Goin hard in da paint'***
Jan 25, 2021, 1:08 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [78976]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 24862
Joined: 8/29/12
|
Man, I had this sweet Mickey Mouse one ant I always
Jan 25, 2021, 1:04 PM
|
|
put my quarters and change into. Sometimes dollar bills if I could fold them tiny enough to get through the slot (lutz). It was rubber though so you could take the money out more than once. There was a little plug on the bottom. I remember the first time I took money out it was to buy a ninja turtle action figure at the store. Man I loved that toy and I'll never forget getting to pay for it with my own money and then taking it back home and getting beat mercilessly by my dad with a set of jumper cables for wasting my money on dolls.
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [105164]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 65041
Joined: 12/2/02
|
Sorry man, that sucks.***
Jan 25, 2021, 1:04 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [34486]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 13513
Joined: 8/30/19
|
Dad made mom crazy and vice versa
Jan 25, 2021, 1:07 PM
|
|
I had an otherwise normal child hood after the divorce.
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [23303]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 11823
Joined: 9/1/14
|
Re: Dad made mom crazy and vice versa
Jan 25, 2021, 2:12 PM
|
|
At least your mom was upfront about it. Probably not your best memory, but we can all get a little crazy at times. The fella from the other thread said he was stealing from his daughter and paying her with the money. I think I'd rather have moment of 'mama went a little crazy one night' stuck in my head than come to the realization that my dad was paying me with money he stole from me. I hope that guy was joking.
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [134869]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 41379
Joined: 8/26/07
|
I’ve got a 1939 World’s Fair glass brick bank
Jan 25, 2021, 1:12 PM
|
|
That was my grandfathers, then my dad’s, and now mine. There are probably a lot of silver dimes and quarters in the bottom. I know there are a bunch of wheat pennies in there. It’s about 2/3s full. Supposedly it will split open when it is full.
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [84470]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 24674
Joined: 5/21/14
|
Just like OPs mom***
Jan 25, 2021, 1:13 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [34486]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 13513
Joined: 8/30/19
|
I got a large vitamin bottle
Jan 25, 2021, 1:14 PM
[ in reply to I’ve got a 1939 World’s Fair glass brick bank ] |
|
slap full of silver dollars, 50 cent pieces, etc.
Probably not worth much, but PawPaw had it for 50 years so maybe could be worth something one day.
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [59723]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 22347
Joined: 5/24/17
|
Yeah man, I actually still have mine
Jan 25, 2021, 1:15 PM
|
|
my Grandmother gave us all one and they stayed at their house. it was a small tiger. So my grandpa and grandma threw change into them all the time. We always went and counted our money when visiting.
I had a really small Clemson football helmet one too. It was wood and the sides were like plexiglass. So you unscrewed the plexiglass to get the money out. Well, once you do that 5-10 times, the screws no longer work and the wood is worn out. So it became just full of money and I finally broke it one day.
Funny and true:
My piggy bank was a tiger - cool, like me (I think) My cousins piggy bank was an elephant - the dude is super overweight and looks like an elephant. Please forgive me. My sisters was a pig - she is the spitting image of a mud rolling hog. Please forgive me. My other sisters was a dog - she is super smart and one of my best friends
Its like we all took on the persona of our piggy banks.
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [4693]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2181
Joined: 5/21/05
|
Thanks to grandparents, my kids' piggy banks are loaded.
Jan 25, 2021, 1:15 PM
|
|
I raid them frequently and tell them I put their money in a savings account.
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [59723]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 22347
Joined: 5/24/17
|
I have definitely snuck a $10
Jan 25, 2021, 1:18 PM
|
|
and bought a 6pack of Mickey's.
I couldn't find my wallet one day, so I knew my little man had some cash, so I borrowed it. Probably should reimburse him.
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [105164]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 65041
Joined: 12/2/02
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [75454]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 108691
Joined: 10/26/03
|
Like good country folk, My dad and I kept our spare change
Jan 25, 2021, 1:17 PM
|
|
in a giant pickle jar. Well, some jokers broke in the close to Thanksgiving 1997. They see the giant pickle jar full of change and go for it. It breaks on them. They then go get a pillow case off my dad's bed and try to put all the coins in there. That must have been about the time I drove up on them so it got dropped.
These effers spent so much time with that #### change jar they left no fewer than 4 firearms untouched.
Had I know these guys were thieves and not somebody working on the house I could have parked my car in such a manner that there was no way their van was going to get out.
My cousin and one of his cousins from the other side just happened to be sighing in their rifles and saw the van scream out of the road. Had they known, they could have at least shot at the fools.
P.S. My mom may have lied to me for 20 years, but she never took any money from me.
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [40656]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 23591
Joined: 1/29/05
|
Oh***
Jan 25, 2021, 1:19 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [46675]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 30633
Joined: 8/11/15
|
a blue crayola crayon piggy bank
Jan 25, 2021, 1:20 PM
|
|
I took care of that ###### for 30 years. Had all kinds of half dollars JFK, wheat pennies ect.
Gave it to my son as a pass down thing. 2 days later it's destroyed.
But before I forget, Pigs of mom?
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [22752]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 16829
Joined: 12/2/00
|
Had a winnie pooh bank
Jan 25, 2021, 2:09 PM
|
|
My older bro drew a ##### on the bowl of honey in its lap. That was the day my folks took me in to open a real bank account.
My kids have two banks each. One for bills, and a separate winding coin dropper one where coins fall into the belly. My youngest is already trying to spend the money. My oldest has no care about the money and often forgets to put his holiday money away.
|
|
|
|
Replies: 21
| visibility 783
|
|
|