Save your pennies with an exploding piggy bank

TOMY Co has come up with a foolproof way to make people save money. No it’s not a standing order, it’s an exploding piggy bank, but of course.

The piggy bank needs to be fed a certain amount of money regularly. Otherwise, like an alarm clock on snooze, it vibrates and beeps every hour until eventually, if it isn’t sedated with your hard earned cash, it bursts open.

It’s less exciting than we thought originally. It’s more like a cauldron shape which has a hatch that releases the money onto the floor or desk. They clearly thought of the pyromaniacs who would buy it just to see it explode.

The plus side of this is that when it does burst open, you have tons of money to blow on silly things like Haribo and we said it was foolproof, and it is, unless you remove the batteries.

So far, we don’t think it’s nearly as cool as the piggy bank based on a comic book character that grew older when you put money in it. Unless of course you took it to mean that an absence of money was the secret to eternal youth and you ended up broke and living on the side of the road, washing homeless people for money, which isn’t really the desired effect of owning a piggy bank.