Project 2010 : 33 - how do you make a million?

02.21.10

if you collect a million pennies, how big of a space would that take?

@ the Pink Museum, Memphis, TN.

Proj 19 of 365: Piggy Bank

(04.27.09)
saving up through piggy banks was never my forte. it was something I start with excitement and enthusiasm and then the feeling dies a natural death after quite some time. this happens as I either find something I absolutely must buy, or as my dad catches on the mystery of his lost coins and my innocently full-overnight piggybank (this happened in preschool), or as I grew tired thinking how on earth I can manage to carry a heavy bundle towards the money changer (what happened lately with my 10 peso stash).

then, as I was reading a magazine over the weekend, I got an idea from a couple who keep aside every 200 bill they come across with. so I’m doing the same thing – keeping every 200 peso bill that touches my palm. why 200 pesos? first it’s a “rare” bill compared to the easily-found hundred peso. and as it obviously is a bill, it’s not bulky to save up or carry around come I decide to use it to buy something or save at the bank.

for now I don’t know what I’ll do with the bills I’ve yet to save up but I definitely hope it will come in handy in the future. join me as I cross my fingers as I hope to stick with this routine.