
Originally Posted by
Snowfly
Just sharing my experience-
When my children were still small like 3yrs.old +, I bought a plastic piggy/bear bank for each one of them. I told them that whenever they see coins nga naka kalat lang dyan, inside or outside the house, they must pick it up and put it in their piggy/bear bank, because big things start from small.
Whenever they receive a cash gift from ninong/ninang or services rendered bec. they helped cleaning their rooms for .50cents, shining their school shoes for .25 cents, watering the plants for .50 cents, run errands, massaging my or their dads legs when tired for .50 cents each legs , arms for .25 cents each hehehe or made extra from their allowances etc.etc. they will put it too.
Ohhh you can see from the glow of their eyes how happy they were looking at their piggy/bear banks and mag contest pa gani sila kon kinsay daghan ug sulod, pag ma puno na we will all go to the bank and deposit it at their junior savings account w/c was still P100 initial deposit before. I taught them how to view their savings at the passbook para ma appreciate nila how it grows.They continued this style till they reached college when I already made a transfer of funds at their individual accounts for their allowances.
Now my children are all working, I don't know how much they have already saved , but am sure they can rely on it during rainy days kay sila man hinuon ang utanganan sa mga office mates. Sometimes they compare each others net worth and we all laughed remembering the good old days hahaha.... Yes, they ended up kuripot, because they learned to value money from hard work.....good or bad,,, that was our style before hehehe