Very early on I settled on giving little ceramic banks. After all, I was in the Saving business. Sometimes they were piggy banks, or other animals. Sometimes I would give a football or other theme bank. I tried to make the banks fit the family. Sometimes it was hard to find the perfect bank, and I would settle for what I could find.
The giving of banks has become such a tradition that the moms often wonder what bank they will get from me. Now days if I here that one of our members is expecting, I will begin seeking the right bank long before the baby makes an appearance. I have on a couple of occasions, been able to buy banks in homelands of the mother, who came to the States with her groom. One came from Shanghai and was a monkey, matching the year of the Chinese zodiac in which the child was born. The other was from Belarus and was a figure of a little girl in traditional dress from that country.
I sometimes wish I had kept a list of the names of the children I had given banks at their birth, but I did not. I wonder how long it will be before I am able to present a bank to a child born to a parent that was also a recipient of a bank from me at their birth.
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