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Nah, Krabo just started my thread a lot longer ago.

That avatar of yours looks like a moomin piggy bank. I wonder if they have those things.

Makes for a curious dilemma: presumably you'd buy it for someone who likes moomins ... but then who'd want to smash such a thing?

Hey Murihiku,

Are you deliberately ignoring the 'we love Murihiku thread??

I guess you would make it one of those piggy banks that have a plastic stopper in the bottom. Then you can get your money out without smashing it. You can always see the marks on the stopper once you have used a knife to get it out though, so there is no hiding the fact that you have broken into your savings.

Hello!

Piggy banks with stoppers at the bottom ... that's cheating! Practical, but still ...

And no, I'm not avoiding that thread. I only found out about it this morning. I have a bunch of tabs open that I'm working through. And then I keep getting sidetracked by responses in other threads and with other sites. I'll get 'em done eventually, in the course of the morning.

Hello Drawyer,

I haven't met you yet. You must be new(ish) around here. Welcome.


Murihiku - that's the only kind I ever had. Maybe my dad realised I would be distraught if I had to finally break my beloved piggy bank. I had a Snoopy lying on his kennel. It was part of a Young Saver account at the local bank. I had a deposit book with Snoopy in too. Maybe that's where I learned my love of saving. You can't let Snoopy down.

^ Yeah, I thought having a kids savings account was the best thing ever back then. I didn't have a piggy bank, though. My account was organised through school, and every week I'd hand in money with my account book. Plus my parents and relatives would put money directly in there, too. Not that my account book had Snoopy in it, though – that would've been cool, or a Ninja Turtles one.

I remember later in primary school when my parents wanted to buy me a computer. They were going to get a normal white one, but I gave them $300 from my kids savings account and asked if I could get a better one – an Acer Aspire (Emerald Green), which I thought was the coolest computer in the world back then. I felt so proud of myself when they said I could get that one.

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And that photo from Theta is really cute.

Lol, amd when you look at the memory those old computers had, and what they could do, it's just hilarious.

Yeah, that Acer Aspire had an 850 MB hard drive. Not even one gigabyte – for the entire computer. Plus I think it had 8 MB of RAM.

I do miss it though, along with Windows 95 and all the CD games and programs it had (anyone remember Encarta?). I thought it was so cool, and it lasted right through to the end of high school.

(PS: Good grief, I even found an old ad for it. I'm on such a nostalgia trip right now.)

Did you play Doom?

Sure did , along with a whole host of 90s games that I miss right now.

You?

My first computer had about 50 megabytes of hard drive--that's 0.050 gigabytes. That was in 1997, when I started Internet.

The RAM was probably on the order of 10 MB or so.

Huh. I thought most piggy banks had a locked opening underneath so one could take the money out without smashing it. At least all the ones I had did.

Never had a piggy bank. Once had a Tootsie Roll canister to keep my coins in.

I had a turtle piggy bank but I never used it as such, I got it when I was 7, just because I fell for it
but when I was in daycare age I had a piggy bank shaped like an apple, with a worm that came to take the coins, and some years later I used a house piggy bank I inherited from my mother, although I played with it more than I used it.

I never played Doom, as I was born too late for that.
However, I played Riven.