When You Have to Bank On A Pig In A Deckchair

Today's image was taken on another quick dash up to our local shops and rescued me from a blank blip day. This advertising poster outside an electrical store is intended to portray how you can let your piggy bank put its feet (or should that be trotters!) up and take it easy now that you've made some savings by purchasing your goods from this particular retailer.
You know what's coming next you lucky people - yep, some piggy bank history! The earliest pig-shaped money containers date to the 12th Century when a large number of boar shaped piggy banks were discovered at the large archaeological site surrounding Trowulan, a village on the Indonesian island of Java.
The Javenese term celegan - literally "likeness of a wild boar" but also used to mean both "savings" and piggy bank is still in use in modern Indonesian language.
There is some folk etymology regarding the English language term "piggy bank" but in fact there is no clear origin for the phrase. The earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1913, and from 1902 for the variant "pig bank".
It is believed that the popularity of the Western piggy bank originates from Germany, where pigs are revered as symbols of good fortune. So today's image is my symbol of good fortune for blip! :-)