{"id":690,"date":"2008-05-10T23:58:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2008\/05\/2008_05_10_2358.php"},"modified":"2008-05-10T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T15:58:32","slug":"trippin-on-piggybanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/10\/trippin-on-piggybanks","title":{"rendered":"Trippin&#8217; on Piggybanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to get high on <em>piggybanks<\/em> than to bust out the <strong>&#8216;shrooms!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2208\/2480040242_81f82c9330_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"You may click on the image for more details\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2208\/2480040242_4f786fdd40_m.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<!--more-->\n<p>Now that my coins have been building up to ridiculous amounts, I thought that I bought myself a nice piggybank. Then I remember seeing in <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkgeek.com\" title=\"visit site\">ThinkGeek<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play-gadgets.com\/2007\/12\/12\/super-mario-mushroom-bank-mario-saves-too-for-a-rainy-day\" title=\"view product\">Super Mario Mushroom Banks<\/a> a while back. <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkgeek.com\" title=\"visit site\">ThinkGeek<\/a> has stopped carrying these for quite a while, but I was lucky enough to find a store that sells them on the net.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re every bit as awesome as I expected them to be! Well, I thought they&#8217;d be bigger, but as long as they&#8217;re the biggest available I guess it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkgeek.com\/images\/products\/other\/smb_mushroom_banks_embed.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m putting only 5 and 10 peso coins in it. Cris and I agreed to start saving those coins in particular and see how much we can save at the end of each year (who knows maybe enough for an out of town trip within the country)<\/p>\n<p>The 1s get demoted to a regular mug where I collect and group for parking payments and other shit. Now that I think about it, I think I should&#8217;ve gotten three of them and use the other red for the 1s.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the <strong>1-up mushroom<\/strong> (green), while Cris gets the <strong>Super mushroom<\/strong> (red) &#8211; which I think is quite apt (green = La Salle, and red is the closest &#8216;shroom you can get to represent UP&#8217;s maroon)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to get high on piggybanks than to bust out the &#8216;shrooms!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[802,919,1132],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-mushroom-bank","tag-piggybank","tag-super-mario"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}