Google, why is a pig the go to animal for saving?
Summary: Someone made a mistake.
Around the fifteenth century, they often constructed pots out of a clay material called pygg. When a merchant would earn an extra dime or two he would throw it in one of these pygg pots, hense, they began to call them pygg banks. (Can you see where this is going yet…?) Over the next few hundred years the meaning of “pygg bank/pyggy bank” as the material was lost (along with the spelling) and people just went on with their daily lives… unscathed… UNTIL one day some boob of a potter was asked to make a “piggy bank” and so he took that request in its most literal form and made a jar in the shape of a pig! Needless to say, the patron was overjoyed and the creation blossomed into a treasured staple for all future home banking needs. : )
:O incredible...
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