Piggy Bank Of Life

So you broke the bank this holiday season splurging on all the fabulous gadgets you thought you deserved, and now you can't pay rent and are on the verge of living in a cardboard box. If only you had Takara Tomy's "The Bank of Life" when you were a kid to teach you the discipline of saving each and every penny.

This twist on the traditional piggy and a Tamagotchy, features an LCD that shows a man who starts off living in a shoebox home and gradually upgrades to a luxury apartment according to the amount of money dumped in the bank.

If you had just kept all your money in this little gizmo, then you would have foreseen your plight in the life of the little man in the LCD when you emptied the bank. Get one for your kids to start them off right for US$40 each. Oh, wait, you don't have another $40, so go back to work.

Piggy bank with a life [Via: Spluch]