We finally emptied the kids piggy banks and opened each of them a savings account. The kids got excited to see all their money. It was kind of funny. In the process of emptying Mady's we found monopoly money, barbie money and even some plastic coins that may be stuck in there forever because I can't get them out.:) So Mady has had her piggy bank for almost 3 years and she had $234.50 and Noah has had his for not quite a year and a half and he had $94.81. Not too bad for a couple of toddlers. We try to give them money on the holidays and whenever we have a little extra. They get ALL of our change and whenever grandparents or anyone send them money we put some or all of it in there. The get super excited to 'feed their piggies'. My mom adds to it quite often too and they love it. In fact this morning my mom left a $20 bill on the counter for Adam to go get us all breakfast, and when she turned around it was gone. They looked everywhere for it and finally Adam asked mady and she said she fed her pig. Sure enough, she'd found the money on the counter and thought, Yippee and shoved it in her bank! So we can't really leave money laying around. It will disappear. Anyhow I thought it was a good experience and they were excited to see the lady at the bank dump all their coins in the machine. Now we have empty piggies to feed!
We opened savings accounts for both kids when they were born and a small part of Kevin's check goes to their accounts every month. Logan now has more money that we EVER do in our checking accounts.
ReplyDeleteKudos to you guys!