Parents Fund

As I’ve mentioned, my sisters and I are still living with our parents (age range: 34-28).  We are 4 kids, and they financed our education all throughout college.

My parents are no hotshot; my dad had a vocational course in dressmaking and my mom reached highschool.  They had a shop way back ’70s but closed it when RTWs boomed.  Then came what we call sari-sari store (a neighborhood variety store).

Out of this store came 4 college graduates, one being a Certified Public Accountant (ehem).

Now that my father has retired from his regular job (garment factory), the store keeps them busy all the live long day.

Since my parents are not fond of stashing away money for future use, I decided to do it for them, thus, the PARENTS FUND!

It started last August 11, 2008 and I take 50.00 each day from their store sales, put it in a makeshift coin bank (made out of microwavable, transparent circular container) and draw a line on it to represent 1 day.  As of today the coin bank has 17 lines on it, (I haven’t put the 50 for today) multiply by 50.00 per line = 850.00!!!

If I keep this up till December, my Parents Fund will have a little over 7,000.00 for them to use!

Do you still use an old fashioned coin bank?