Get yourself a 'Mortgage Pig'

gallygirl

pink_fairy wrote:

I think also its the Chinese year of the pig this year (2007) so that's got to be good!!

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Happy New Year to all of you from Peefer and myself!!!!!

comping_cat

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all, hope its a wonderful one for everybody with lots of full piggies!!!!

tr3mor

I don't have a mortgage. But you inspired me to ask Santa for a piggy for Christmas. He's lovely, I named him Martin

[Deleted User]

I just spotted this thread by accident, and it reminded me of years ago in 1960 when I had a little pig called Albert on my desk at work.I used him to save for my first ever holiday abroad. It cost me £35.00 for 10 days on a coach trip. I was 17 and no one in my family, apart from my Dad during WW2 had ever been to Europe.
I went to France ,Belgium,Luxenburg, Germany and stayed in Brunnen in Switzerland for a week .In those days you were only allowed to take a small amout of money out of the country anyway, and there were all different currancies as well to cope with.
I remember putting them in different envelopes so they wouldn't get muddled up.
I used to walk part of the way to work, and made my own sarnies to save a few extra pennies .In those days along with my wages of £5.2s.6d.I had 3/- Luncheon Vouchers .So I would save them up and sell them for 2/- each to other girls who I knew didn't get them from their firms.
My little blue Albert stayed with me for nearly 35 years until in 1995 when I moved house he got broken in the move .I am lucky that as we had downsized our house I no longer have a mortgage but seeing this thread I think I will see if I can put a piggy on my birthday pressie list (February). I would like to be able to go at some point to the U.S. for a holiday and think that a little piggy may focus me on saving a bit more. I do save in a building socety and have an ISA ,but as a previous poster has said it's a bit boring as you can't actually see the money. It's quite a shock sometime to think how easily money just dribbles away like water without anything particular to show for it.:eek:
Happy New Year to everyone and I shall hopefully get my trip to America :j

susieb

Can I join you as well. Weve just bought a new house and mortgaged for 25 years, fixed for 10 years so am hoping to overpay during this time and reduce it to 15 years.

clarew

welcome suzieb and your "pig"! :j

A happy and prosperous new year to all the piggers!:beer:

Gettin_me_own_back

I was telling my mum about this mortgage pig idea and asked her if she still had the large pink plastic pig that I had when I was a little girl. She admitted that it had long gone. However on christmas day I recived a large package with fragile open this way all over it. Inside was a large pink metalic pig from my mum, inside she had put a load of coins (£48.56) in all to start me off.
The only downside is, came downstairs in the dark last night and this thing glows like it has been nuked. Gave me and hubby a real fright.
Thanks Mum.
Happy Money saving new year to all and many thanks to everyone.

tiff

Aww, what a nice thing for your Mum to do.

comping_cat

Gettin_me_own_back wrote:

I was telling my mum about this mortgage pig idea and asked her if she still had the large pink plastic pig that I had when I was a little girl. She admitted that it had long gone. However on christmas day I recived a large package with fragile open this way all over it. Inside was a large pink metalic pig from my mum, inside she had put a load of coins (£48.56) in all to start me off.
The only downside is, came downstairs in the dark last night and this thing glows like it has been nuked. Gave me and hubby a real fright.
Thanks Mum.
Happy Money saving new year to all and many thanks to everyone.

I agree, a lovely thing for your mum to do. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: re the nuked pig tho!!!!!!

greengrass

Hi Have got a lolvely tom and jerry tin, and cant open it without a tin opener, so I will let you all know how much I have got at the end of the year, saving 20p and it quite heavy now.