Put your money where your bank is

For some reason in our house piggy banks just don't seem to last more them a few months. Lovely lady #1 is constantly counting her coins and keeping logs of how much money she has on each day. Which I LOVE that she does, however she has extremely clumsy hands! She drops almost everything she touches.  My mom got her a snow globe one year for Christmas. My mom is telling Cecilia to be very careful with it because it could break easily, and as the words are coming out of her mouth the thing is in the air and on the ground! Shattered everywhere!!!

The same thing happens with almost every piggy bank! I believe lovely lady #1 has been through seven in seven years! So my hubby comes home from work on Saturday morning and tells the kids to hop in the car for a Lowe's trip.  He has this grand idea that he wants to make piggy banks....

??? I had no idea how he was planning on doing this.  Paper mache was all I could think of! Then he says something about picking up glass...so at this point I'm lost. So I just let them do their thing and I didn't ask a single question. 

I get home later that day and there are two pieces of wood nailed to lovely lady #2's wall!! That's it two horribly ugly pieces of skinny wood.  My first reaction was to be extremely upset that he just drilled into our newly painted walls, but I took a deep breath, walked away, and didn't say a thing! Until Sunday morning at 7am when I hear a table saw in my back yard!!! (My neighbors are probably cursing us!!) I kindly remind him that it is much too early on a Sunday to be making all that noise. So he comes in and goes about whatever it is he is doing.....

Then 20 minutes later......


VOILA

 the most awesome "piggy" bank I think I have ever seen!! This can no be dropped and more importantly its a little tougher to break into when you are just dying to have that candy bar! College is already starting to look more promising! :)

I'd like to pretty it up a little bit, maybe with some fabric or scrapbook paper around the border to cover up the nail...but I thought this thing was pretty stinking cute!! :)

Put not your trust in money,
but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes