{"id":241916,"date":"2025-11-03T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:40:20","slug":"man-empties-piggy-bank-after-10-years-not-ready-for-how-much-hes-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241916\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Empties Piggy Bank After 10 Years\u2014Not Ready for How Much He\u2019s Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Oregon<\/a> man was surprised to discover how much he had saved after emptying the piggy bank he had been putting his loose change into for the past decade.<\/p>\n

Portland<\/a> resident Eli Piatt told Newsweek that over the years he has \u201calways\u201d made a point of putting any coins he collected into his Star Wars-themed piggy back. He had been doing so for \u201ca little over 10 years\u201d until he was recently left with little choice but to cash-in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn’t fit anymore change into it,\u201d he said. Piatt decided to deposit the contents<\/a> into a Coinstar machine, a coin counter kiosk designed to convert loose change into either paper currency, gift cards or charitable donations.<\/p>\n

After a decade of putting any change he had to hand into the piggy bank, Piatt knew he had saved a decent amount. However, even he was caught off guard by the final total. \u201cI was pretty surprised by how much was in there,\u201d Piatt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA penny saved is a penny earned,\u201d the saying goes. But many Americans wouldn\u2019t even bend down to pick up a penny in the street if they saw it. In 2024, a YouGov survey of nearly 3,000 U.S. adults found just 50 percent of respondents would stop to pick a penny up in the street in the event they came across one.<\/p>\n

Piatt\u2019s example could have some reassessing that decision though. Piatt accumulated 801 pennies, 928 nickels, 1,202 dimes, 2,002 quarters, 1 half dollar and 11 dollars over the course of his decade-long coin-saving efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That resulted in a total of $686.61 which, minus a $89.16 processing fee, left Piatt with $597.45 in his pocked.<\/p>\n

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Piatt took to Threads, posting under the handle @jsun4hees<\/a>, to reveal how much he had earned. \u201cIt took 10 years, but I finally filled my Star Wars piggy bank<\/a>. Just cashed it in,\u201d he wrote alongside the post.<\/p>\n

Piatt hadn\u2019t planned on sharing his earnings on such a big platform. \u201cI originally posted it to Facebook to show a few friends, but I forgot my Facebook and Threads are connected, so I posted there by accident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, it proved a popular post, earning over 1,600 likes and more than 260 comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood choice,\u201d one fellow Threads user commented. \u201cI remember saving my coins and getting $200 but it took me only like six months as I was a server and a lot of people tipped coins\u2026I spent that money<\/a> and was like damn shoulda saved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another joked \u201cit’s just enough to buy a Lego Death Star! Or a week’s worth of food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some suggested Piatt would have been better off taking the money to the bank and avoiding the processing fee.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext time, roll your coins and take it to a bank,\u201d one user said. \u201cYou gave a machine $90 to count your coins for you,\u201d another wrote, with a third adding: \u201cAsk the bank for coin wrappers. They\u2019re free. Roll them yourself. Save $89.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piatt was not all that bothered at the criticism from those pointing this out though. Instead, he\u2019s been too busy putting the money towards his favorite hobby. \u201cI collect vinyl records so I have bought a few of those,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He kept the change too, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oregon man was surprised to discover how much he had saved after emptying the piggy bank he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,2222,21856,4174,4175,14937,224,37423,15873,56,54,55,5793,5919],"class_list":["post-241916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-money","tag-oregon","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-portland","tag-social-media","tag-threads","tag-trending","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}