"Teach kids the improtance of saving" with a stack of prop $100 bills

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/03/teach-kids-the-improtance-of.html

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Fake money will only make them feel improtent.

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Very improtant!

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The Chinese writing on these makes me suspect that this is “hell money” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money

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I’m going to guess that this is how the Trump family teaches fiscal responsibility.

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They’d get a little closer to reality if the piggy bank was shaped like a condo tower in Vancouver.

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I just assumed “US currency from the future.”

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Somehow I seriously doubt that stashing pretend money away is the best way to teach your kids about saving real money in real life.

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Glad someone is training the counterfeiters of tomorrow!

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I am confused. Do we like this or not?

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Yes, the Kanji is perfect for your Cyberpunk/Bladerunner LARPing.

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Just remove that “r” there and you’ll see just how well saving either fake or real money works.

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Yeah, my property assessment came in yesterday and the value is up $43K from last year. So much for falling property values here…

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No, they learn to fish money out of other people’s piggy banks.

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“Ha ha ha, look at this terrible thing on the Internet, here’s an Amazon affiliate link so you can buy it…”

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I want to LARP!

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via Imgflip Meme Generator

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Especially when you spend real money to buy the fake money.

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Uh, yeah. I simply skipped over the middleman and the needless extra expenses, and started my kid an actual bank account for her savings. Then recently, when she started earning money babysitting, I added a minor’s checking account to it.

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Oh this reminds me… want to teach kids about real money with fake money…

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