Woman Who Has Been Saving Every Month Finds Only R220 in Her Piggy Bank
- A young Nigerian lady has expressed sadness over the amount of money she found after breaking her piggy bank
- According to her, she had been putting R37 every day in the piggy bank since August 2021 and decided to make withdrawal from it for an emergency purpose
- The lady who was expecting to see over 30k was shocked to see a psaltry R220 and cried out on social media
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A lady has taken to social media to share her shocking discovery after some weeks of piggy bank saving.
The lady identified on Facebook as Olori Worldbest narrated how she began saving money in the piggy bank after buying the wooden box in August.
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According to Olori, she began depositing R37 per day towards what she tagged Detty December. Olori said she took record of the figures and stopped when it got to R777.
But an unforeseen emergency forced her into breaking the piggy bank. She needed R777 to settle something and was stunned to find only R220 upon breaking the wooden safe box.
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She warned those who want to venture into saving money using the popular wooden box to be extremely careful.
Mixed reactions trail the post
Victoria Aluefua Nze said:
"Hmmm so sorry about that I use to hear about it very well ooo with people experience how their money disappear."
Stan D Saviour reacted:
"Thank you for speaking out. This is reality.
"If u need a piggy bank. Locate a carpenter close to u. His boys will help u construct one.
"Road side sellers own are very diabolical."
Hugo Boss commented:
"Same happened to me.
"Saved up 100plus consciously..broke it and found around 30somtin..since then,I go live money for wallet on Friday I go straight to deposit into mah acc.
"D week wey I no get power to go bank..I use am buy chicken chop..lobatan."
Comedian Sammy Cfr wrote:
"Sorry dear.
"I seriously understand how you will feel right now.
"Why not have a special saving account were you save instead of all this evil demonic kolo sef.
"My suggestion though be strong dear."
Lady finds over R37 000 after breaking her piggy bank
Meanwhile, Briefly News previously reported that a Nigerian lady had found over R37 000 after breaking her piggy bank.
In a video she shared on Facebook, the lady identified as Angela Nwosu said she had got the piggy bank from one Chidinma in the second week of February and started her saving journey.
Angela, in the video broke the box and counted all her savings which happened to be all in dollars.
Explaining why it is so, she said that being one that does most of her transaction cashless she resorted to taking money from her husband's wallet.
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