Talk:Piggy bank

message: How many modern piggy banks have to be broken open? Mine has a removable flap on the pig's belly, so money can be retrieved easily. Joyous! | Talk 16:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why isn't there anything in the article about breaking open the banks? "breaking the bank"? Not all have ready access and aren't some designed to be broken open once full? I thought that was half the fun? Candleabracadabra (talk) 00:37, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the unreferenced mention of breaking a piggy bank. It is very easy to extract any coins with a knife and any notes with tweezers, but I don't have a RS for that (just a YouTube video). Shantavira|feed me 18:57, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  I used to get money out of my piggy bank with a knife as well, but that doesn't make the claim wrong that they were intended to be broken.  It is referred to so frequenctly in so many different places that it would be astonishing if it were wrong. SpinningSpark 12:15, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You can buy Piggy banks without holes that you have to break. Makes you think twice before you make a withdrawal. PrisonerB (talk) 12:30, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  They cost way more than was ever contained in mine.  It probably isn't possible to get that much money in them in old Lsd coins. SpinningSpark 13:01, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breaking the piggy bank? 

message: The "Famous Piggy Banks" section consists of a few American examples of where images of a piggy bank are used as icons. Is it really noteworthy that a couple of US TV game shows (none of which anyone outside of America will have heard of) make use of piggy banks in some of their rounds? The piggy bank is widely used as an icon throughout the world to signify anything to do with money or saving. It seems pointless to pick on a few obscure examples. 86.185.44.170 (talk) 22:13, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see how including famous American examples in any way detracts from the piggy bank's use in other countries. Even if America weren't a large, notable country, I can assure you that people outside the US have heard of Toy Story, The Price is Right, and Let's Make a Deal. 71.223.242.78 (talk) 18:10, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous Piggy Banks? 

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message: "Piggy bank (sometimes penny bank or money box) is the traditional name (…)"; then, in Origins / Pig-shaped money box: "There are a number of folk etymologies regarding the English language term "piggy bank," but in fact, there is no clear origin for the phrase, which dates only to the 1940s." So is it traditional or relatively new?
Then: "The use of the name 'piggy bank' gave rise to its widely recognized 'pig' shape (…)" – this is at least counterintuitive, are there any sources explaining how it wasn't the converse? 89.64.80.240 (talk) 19:15, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed "The use of the name 'piggy bank' gave rise to its widely recognized 'pig' shape", since it seems that the shape predates the name. I think the use of the term "traditional" is not a huge problem: in that context, I tend to interpret "traditional name" more as "folk name" than as "old name". It would probably be better to change the wording and, e.g, to write "folk name"; but as English is not my native language I do not feel confident enough that this would be an improvement to do it. Malparti (talk) 13:11, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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