Get yourself a 'Mortgage Pig'

dont_want_to_be_in_debt

Hello
Where can I get a big green pig

scorpio_biker

Hi,

Just wanted to add that I've joined in. I got an big orangy yellow pig, called Apollo, who sits on my kitchen table and looks at us as we walk past (just need to do a speech bubble to stick on him). I empty my purse of all coppers and 5p's when I get home so he'll be fed with those, and the odd £15 when we don't order a takeaway but cook some of the copious amounts of food we have in the house instead.

I also got an smaller elephant who sits in my office drawer and looks at me when I open the drawer to get money out for chocolate. He's called Mr Elephant to reflect his status as guardian of both my money and my attempted weight loss.

Whilst I have other debts to clear first Apollo is still known as our mortgage pig.

Thanks to the OP for this great idea.:T

charlie007

wow what a fantastic idea, we have a money saving pot but it has worked its was onto the window to be forgotten about, i will be getting my money bank out of the loft and putting it in the kitchen.

I have a couple of pots full of 1ps and 2ps so i am going to take them to the money machine and get the notes. I have 23years left on my mortgage and hope this will help.

sured

hi, just wanted to say what a great idea this is, i am hunting out my old piggy bank, love the idea of a raffle to give him a name, think may be greedy and charge the kids fifty pence as there's only four of us, i'm new to posting although i have been reading the forums for ages

Quackers

I'm inspired................










.......I'm off to buy a load of pigs to sell on Ebay

aliasojo

dont_want_to_be_in_debt wrote:

Hello
Where can I get a big green pig

No idea.

Sorry....I know that's no help to you at all. I got Herman 2 or 3 years ago during a trip to Edinburgh. (A shop in Cameron Toll shopping centre if I recall correctly.)

I'll try to do some digging and see if I can make any better suggestions in a day or so.

aliasojo

Quackers! You are very bad! :rotfl:

aliasojo

teb wrote:

When do you all count up howm much is in your banks? I think we should leave ours be for a while but partner thinks we should count it monthly. Changed days from not beoing interested. I'm not complaining though.

I don't have a strict routine as such, personally I tend to go by weight sometimes. If Herman feels heavy then I'll count up and pay in, if not then I'll leave him a bit longer.

Slinky

How about this as a collecting thing?

http://www.underafiver.com/pdetail.asp?pid=619

Some other good bargains on that site too.

aliasojo

You could easily use that, slinky. But.............

aliasojo wrote:

It works better if you make it an animal of some kind rather than a box. It's easier to make an attachment to an animal than a 'thing'. So I'm told.

Happy saving.

Of course saving in anything is better than not saving at all.