Saving money is a wise habit that will help you prepare for unforeseen events, medical emergencies, and potential unemployment.
The truth is that not all of us have the consistency needed to maintain it over a long period of time. However,
this was not the case for a man from Monterrey, Mexico, who for two years continuously topped off the piggy bank and shocked the entire Internet with the outcome.
User @Jesnis_extensiones of TikTok detailed the process of counting the money her father had saved for two years in a series of videos.
She had first had some reservations about her father’s money because she regularly observed him putting coins in the bank.
In the first video, Jes states, ‘He says he has put in about a thousand pesos a week,’ and you can see that the piggy bank is already overflowing.
The user sparked dozens of responses by saying, ‘My dad says that whoever comes closest to the amount of money will receive $500 MXN,’
in an attempt to determine the precise sum. Some computed an approximate $100,000 MXN by multiplying $2,000 MXN every week over two years.
The moment they smash open the piggy bank to find coins and several notes is captured in the video below.
The user said, ‘I wish I could have my father’s level of thriftiness,’ as the entire family gathered around the floor to count the items her dad had amassed over the previous 2.5 years.
‘Wow, that’s a lot! In a third video, the complete family is shown gathered counting money, and she says, ‘I don’t think we’re going to finish soon!’
Such discipline to not spend any money, she exclaimed. There were also dollars and large-denomination bills, as can be seen.
After several hours of counting, they had amassed over 250,000 Mexican pesos in bills alone; but, because it took so much time to separate the coins, they opted to weigh the coins instead.
In the end, the man had saved a total of $324,640 MXN, or about $19,096 USD, after adding the sum of the coins and the amount in bills.
The user admitted that her father is a butcher and that he would spend all the money he had saved to purchase more meat for his company in the final segment of the video.
It is unquestionably admirable to have the perseverance and resolve it takes to be able to regularly save for such a long time. We hope that these videos,
some of which have already received over 44 million views on social media, inspire more individuals to begin the wise practice of saving.