This Little Piggy Cried "Humanitarian" All the Way Home.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNEnhBXrXRf5yVghnvr2DgTNzhEXE5P5jlRAvDMrxolXy3a7Pzb4ESEAjtmfGH1j9ZJYQqdI_CcDstPJ09NqDENDcXA4fRgVdw1fMucX-B6a9A74Zr_Wc2Meo_rK-Eg9UDw6gPx7kXFi8/s1600/piggy_from_behind_Hero.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513160962998172802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNEnhBXrXRf5yVghnvr2DgTNzhEXE5P5jlRAvDMrxolXy3a7Pzb4ESEAjtmfGH1j9ZJYQqdI_CcDstPJ09NqDENDcXA4fRgVdw1fMucX-B6a9A74Zr_Wc2Meo_rK-Eg9UDw6gPx7kXFi8/s400/piggy_from_behind_Hero.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 518px; height: 518px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: A philanthropic Piggy Bank set for children</span></span><br /><br />Michigan-based<a href="http://www.materious.com/"> Materious</a>, in an effort to teach future generations about compassion and to help parents raise future humanitarians (Lord knows, we could use more), has designed a great-looking, fun and educational way to save money and turn your little ones into caring citizens.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLoaPoJC4ZOitKagS6tLVmMliH8aqyNAg5T0788TPBAEiW9iHQgiZ8QOrh0lL9hH61D_EcPYgtanMEHRw6ZpkFL6PT5zvM94BEF7ljZ9y00e2RFq3NJEdEWf1YdT86jwNNHKmH8Sz1lYN/s1600/pink+piggies.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513154757192053154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLoaPoJC4ZOitKagS6tLVmMliH8aqyNAg5T0788TPBAEiW9iHQgiZ8QOrh0lL9hH61D_EcPYgtanMEHRw6ZpkFL6PT5zvM94BEF7ljZ9y00e2RFq3NJEdEWf1YdT86jwNNHKmH8Sz1lYN/s400/pink+piggies.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 520px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: the set shown in glossy pale pink (also available in white)</span></span><br /><br />In an effort to teach their own child about compassion, kindness and caring, Stephanie and Bruce, the talented couple behind the design firm, came up with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Piggy</span>, a set of beautifully designed savings banks, in glossy white or pale pink, that nest together.<br /><br />The larger “Momma” Piggy bank is for a child’s personal savings, and the smaller "Little Piggy" bank is for the child's charitable savings.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UIHtE-TGfP8HSajSrnZdXUDZifM7tIGKseTO3GeXbebh-hNdOihGbbxcnhY2pgIA_AdPjJlMbZNpsnjfNKg7gQNzQiWjmPxs8rKGYnNyOmuznKdmjfAffBx-cOMr5FYk5FQysjtOyXNI/s1600/good-little-piggy-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513150036229742306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UIHtE-TGfP8HSajSrnZdXUDZifM7tIGKseTO3GeXbebh-hNdOihGbbxcnhY2pgIA_AdPjJlMbZNpsnjfNKg7gQNzQiWjmPxs8rKGYnNyOmuznKdmjfAffBx-cOMr5FYk5FQysjtOyXNI/s400/good-little-piggy-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 301px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxcHhLOrgjHEsYDx0bAsx5ifmfpVlILg6sWEVMvf2MnQyQwMO_azjW6DTQacC7P_bZwnKQVdMDQk62QqF0X-gBvmMcbcq0zWhU04POpLgnMi_U-SJRKNgeBObfTcjxqLZmm4MjjoI1p56/s1600/piggy_pink_detail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513150263583485042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxcHhLOrgjHEsYDx0bAsx5ifmfpVlILg6sWEVMvf2MnQyQwMO_azjW6DTQacC7P_bZwnKQVdMDQk62QqF0X-gBvmMcbcq0zWhU04POpLgnMi_U-SJRKNgeBObfTcjxqLZmm4MjjoI1p56/s400/piggy_pink_detail.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 353px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCoZVK8gmH8YK4zQfjl3oMQzTBBHecvPU9a7c6Vb6fPx08FI7NYhLic6MWQ3nOOA-NDAR8kna-3c8p_UzP_C4JHYJNKXG7cilP46tJrjeyCK8l1w7ys1otkMIP5_dHYbF-ghs1-DLSJpb/s1600/piggy_girl_table1_450w_web.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513150480285140962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCoZVK8gmH8YK4zQfjl3oMQzTBBHecvPU9a7c6Vb6fPx08FI7NYhLic6MWQ3nOOA-NDAR8kna-3c8p_UzP_C4JHYJNKXG7cilP46tJrjeyCK8l1w7ys1otkMIP5_dHYbF-ghs1-DLSJpb/s400/piggy_girl_table1_450w_web.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 391px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfiDjATp6A4qL5Tjh4W28SoaIl3tiAmyazRmIn8C_CPc7cw-zcB5ZMm_pl4IcYqCDkIB9xj-l4rbVZPChYjK46i-NqVdghZ7B2QbKudO_4K-GLRxkUKpsxQyRV9yDdMh85-1oG3PZzYJg/s1600/girl_piggy_bottom_plug_450w.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513149941279511906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfiDjATp6A4qL5Tjh4W28SoaIl3tiAmyazRmIn8C_CPc7cw-zcB5ZMm_pl4IcYqCDkIB9xj-l4rbVZPChYjK46i-NqVdghZ7B2QbKudO_4K-GLRxkUKpsxQyRV9yDdMh85-1oG3PZzYJg/s400/girl_piggy_bottom_plug_450w.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 391px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PIGGY FEATURES</span><br />* Hand-cast ceramic<br />* Set of banks: one ‘momma’ and one ‘baby’<br />* Modern, minimal design<br />* Glazed in pale pink or bright white<br />* Small pig nests with the large ‘momma’<br />* Removable bottom plugs on each<br />* Ships safely in fun “quote box”<br /><br />The box in which the adorable nesting Piggies are packaged is covered with great quotes about compassion:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEiXy7v4_Zdg0mpas_EYliFvDpoR4krU9KP0UH5AU0r6UOvaqfHck-fSUT8nAq6k0pwiynR8OZSLN8wIsORQgZxj-cjhg5qQhYvqI2qm8u5ZA2up9Pv8hMgigS-i6eL-p-HUg6JE_WdlL/s1600/piggy_with_package.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513149443818530194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEiXy7v4_Zdg0mpas_EYliFvDpoR4krU9KP0UH5AU0r6UOvaqfHck-fSUT8nAq6k0pwiynR8OZSLN8wIsORQgZxj-cjhg5qQhYvqI2qm8u5ZA2up9Pv8hMgigS-i6eL-p-HUg6JE_WdlL/s400/piggy_with_package.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 375px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quotes that embellish the box:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Dalai Lama</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Winston Churchill</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Maya Angelou</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Albert Einstein</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mahatma Gandhi</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•No one has ever become poor by giving</span>. - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anne Frank</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dalai Lama</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Edward Bulwer-Lytton</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Buddha</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical development.</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Felix Adler</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">•The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. </span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE POWER OF PIGGY</span><br />This simple product, Piggy, can truly make the world a better and more compassionate place. Piggy helps teach kids about charitable giving, with the hopes of inspiring new generations of caring, sharing, philanthropic citizens. With 12,000 children born each day in the US, imagine the social impact if just a fraction of them learned powerful lessons of gratefulness and kindness to others.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">USING PIGGY</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdsP4HBNLx2o5ABikpUGoD8zndltIaYpf9jLgT3RxscmWDWC_0vc8d_O4hiMp-cNQeT2hMu3IHiR7GYex_PwEUBKI-sUZ-R4A1h5FP3EgfFPxiOQ4J3epJyh_FocSQv8tR8mHH3AKDH-O/s1600/child+with+piggy2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513152852944883074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdsP4HBNLx2o5ABikpUGoD8zndltIaYpf9jLgT3RxscmWDWC_0vc8d_O4hiMp-cNQeT2hMu3IHiR7GYex_PwEUBKI-sUZ-R4A1h5FP3EgfFPxiOQ4J3epJyh_FocSQv8tR8mHH3AKDH-O/s400/child+with+piggy2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 286px;" /></a><br />Materious suggests that children learn to set aside 10% of their income to charity. Parents can discuss with their kids about who they would want to help most. When the baby bank is filled, a special event can be planned to deliver the money to the charity, or a trip to the bank and post office to mail a check.<br /><br />The goal is to create positive feelings of doing good will make an indelible mark upon their character and place philanthropy as an important and intrinsic aspect of their life.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpX57n-VBKo36iMXmJdyhMgwNkhPPbKgupoY3R9Gqfye5QVeKtgGxKeA21LRTrDyilCRB2SyyNm5H3nSn8mOBytGudzaWVEFuwGBVSGtrq2oak_nJCoRp8BWbr7o2d6ID6e9muJyod8Xcz/s1600/piggy_logo.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513160643014337250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpX57n-VBKo36iMXmJdyhMgwNkhPPbKgupoY3R9Gqfye5QVeKtgGxKeA21LRTrDyilCRB2SyyNm5H3nSn8mOBytGudzaWVEFuwGBVSGtrq2oak_nJCoRp8BWbr7o2d6ID6e9muJyod8Xcz/s400/piggy_logo.gif" style="cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 65px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.goodlittlepiggy.com/shop.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Buy the Piggy Nesting banks here</a> (They donate 3% of the profits to charity)<br /><br />For resources on possible charities, go to the<a href="http://www.goodlittlepiggy.com/charity.html"> 'Charity' tab of their site.</a><br />The designers want to know your own inspiring story, <a href="mailto:piggy@materious.com">send it to them here.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiqiFojRSNtKG9v29-jkBRfa7qNTPYgX84b48xGtxZsiEYVJq0WjJnnYa8xVgq94l9K0a-vwrvGajTpU4THL4OFtUWNl9MwRQfnbxWxByr8hEDfJIP6pmV4HJvtvgttTcpqXULw0MEMfQ/s1600/stephanie+and+Isla+rey.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513153114927897954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiqiFojRSNtKG9v29-jkBRfa7qNTPYgX84b48xGtxZsiEYVJq0WjJnnYa8xVgq94l9K0a-vwrvGajTpU4THL4OFtUWNl9MwRQfnbxWxByr8hEDfJIP6pmV4HJvtvgttTcpqXULw0MEMfQ/s400/stephanie+and+Isla+rey.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 451px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >above: Stephanie of Materious, with her inspiration.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.materious.com/">Materious</a> is also the company who brought us the fabulous <a href="http://www.samuraiumbrella.com/">Samurai Umbrella.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >all images and info courtesy of <a href="http://www.materious.com/">Materious</a> and special thanks to <a href="http://www.stilsucht.de/09/2010/piggy-gutes-schweinchen/">Stilsucht</a> for bringing this to my attention.</span>

This Little Piggy Cried "Humanitarian" All the Way Home.

above: A philanthropic Piggy Bank set for children Michigan-based Materious , in an effort to teach future generations about compassion and...

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8 Pretty Places In Which To Put Those Coins : Modern Piggy banks

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDIZxeabSiOfUc-dkkm-Soq32UyCYByJM7jIl5Pl5gPvpb5BF6eb5EcWsP4BNPeY1QTN-5WIZHIrtKyeox2nj3ddIr7hjjopPRmeOuaVvdQZdT2X7U_RsTtFLphUDHuRQPYGdEVDJmqyv/s1600-h/Picture+20.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249628109751034930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDIZxeabSiOfUc-dkkm-Soq32UyCYByJM7jIl5Pl5gPvpb5BF6eb5EcWsP4BNPeY1QTN-5WIZHIrtKyeox2nj3ddIr7hjjopPRmeOuaVvdQZdT2X7U_RsTtFLphUDHuRQPYGdEVDJmqyv/s400/Picture+20.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 273px;" /></a><br /><div class="tn_post"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="http://www.thisnext.com/list/3F06B89D/Modern-Beautiful-Places-To-Put?u=laurasweet&p=/list/3F06B89D/Modern-Beautiful-Places-To-Put&t=blog" title="Modern & Beautiful Places To Put Your Coins"><img alt="Modern & Beautiful Places To Put Your Coins" height="787" src="http://www.thisnext.com/media/blogit/1AB2A4C6.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(187, 187, 187) rgb(187, 187, 187) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-width: 1px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" width="400" /></a></div><p>If you're not gonna spend it, at least put it in something cool.<br />There's no longer an excuse for keeping pennies in a ... gasp... jar!<br />Here are 8 shiny pretty places in which to put those coins.<br />Click on each image for more info and to purchase.</p><p>See more of my over 39 <a href="http://www.thisnext.com/list/3F06B89D/Modern-Beautiful-Places-To-Put?u=laurasweet&p=/list/3F06B89D/Modern-Beautiful-Places-To-Put&t=blog">Modern & Beautiful Places To Put Your Coins</a> list at ThisNext.</p></div>

8 Pretty Places In Which To Put Those Coins : Modern Piggy banks

If you're not gonna spend it, at least put it in something cool. There's no longer an excuse for keeping pennies in a ... gasp... ja...

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