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pting-pting! it’s a mario block piggy bank!

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Mario Perler Bead Piggy Bank

Here’s another insanely amazing Perler-beaded creation from lostmitten: the question mark block piggy bank! Lostmitten really got the appearance of the block spot-on.

Put coins and even paper bills inside! Or mushrooms and flowers and stars and leaves. Although they look fragile, the blocks are actually held together by contact cement…

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December 3rd, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

game banks make saving fun

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jinsei ginko bank japan yen saving

It’s a good week for saving money while playing games. If Tetris and Breakout aren’t your bag, you might want to try something even simpler, like Bankquest or Jinsei Ginko.

It seems that piggy banks that double as tiny gaming machines are quite the happening trend in Japan these days…

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December 1st, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

tetris and breakout piggy banks help you pinch pennies

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Atari Breakout and Tetris Piggy Banks

Remember when it cost just a quarter to play your favorite arcade games? What would you say if I told you that you could play two Atari arcade classics for just one red cent a game.

While these pint-size versions of Breakout and Tetris aren’t totally faithful to their arcade counterparts, they only charge a single shiny copper penny to play…

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November 29th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

hungry piggy bank eats coins for lunch

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Hungry Piggy Bank

Looking for a place to keep all that loose change you’ve been saving up since you gave up on tipping the baristas at the Starbucks? Keep ‘em all in this whimsical piggy bank that chows down on your coinage before it heads deep into its porty, porky belly…

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July 29th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob