The piggy bank is full. What to do? On the one hand, it's a pity the piggy bank. On the other hand, there is no other way to remove accumulations from it. How to be I have to break it. But this is in most cases completely optional. In our article, we will talk about options for withdrawing money from a piggy bank and how to open a piggy bank without breaking it.
About the essence of the thing called "piggy bank"
Piggy bank is a great thing. In most cases, this is a beautiful ceramic product, and it’s simply a pity to break it when it is filled with accumulations. And the idea of making a kind of “jam” somewhere in the bottom has no foundation. In this case, the incentive to replenish this very piggy bank is lost. With the same success, you can stack savings somewhere in the corner of the cabinet.
Only now, a solid pile of money has been collected and asks to be spent ahead of time. And with the piggy bank, this option will not work. On the one hand, it’s a pity to spoil the product itself ahead of time, on the other hand, others will know about it. Then ridicule cannot be avoided: "What, patience was not enough? Me too! ” - or something like that.
But in fact there are options for how to open a piggy bank without breaking. We’ll talk about them.
Removing accumulations through the discharge hole
To do this, we need a simple construction knife with a wide and thin blade. As a rule, in the piggy banks a hole for dumping money is at least one and a half times wider than the thickest coin. We will use this.
We insert the knife blade into the hole, tilt it and shake the piggy bank. Coins fall down, and one of them will necessarily lie on the blade. We take out the knife from the hole, one coin is removed. Repeat the process.
The occupation is dreary and long, but if you need to keep the piggy bank intact - it's worth it. Plus, in this case, you don’t have to bother with the question of how to open a piggy bank without breaking it.
Opening a piggy bank with a plaster bottom
As a rule, all curly and colorful piggy banks made in the form of seals, dogs, etc., have a flaw in their basis. In the manufacture of such piggy banks, a large hole is provided through which the manufacture of a figured ceramic product takes place. And since the top should be closed initially and have only a slot for discarding coins, a hole is made below. And it is closed after the piggy bank is made with gypsum mortar.
As we know from physics lessons, gypsum is a loose substance that can also be dissolved in hot water. This is how plaster tires are removed from people who have had fractures. So, how to open a piggy bank without breaking it with hot water?
We collect hot water into the container and immerse the bottom of the piggy bank in it. After a short time, the gypsum in the base begins to soften and with the help of a knife it can be scraped off a little. Add hot water to the container, soak again. Scraping off again. The bottom is thinning out until we make a hole in it at all.
Voila! You can retrieve the contents.
Scratch the bottom with sharp objects
But this is not the only method how to open a piggy bank without breaking it. You can break through to the content without wetting the accumulation. In this case, you need a sharp awl or a knife with a sharp blade. We scratch the quadrangle in the lower gypsum part and, time after time, deepen it around the perimeter with a sharp tip. After some time, the gypsum fragment in the form of a quadrangle will fall out, and it will be possible to withdraw the accumulation.
One of the variations of this technique is well described in the next video.
Conclusion
If the piggy bank is for children, it would be best to smash it, so that the child gets used to the fact that in order to get to the money, you need to sacrifice something. And give him a new one, so that the child can again begin to accumulate.
But if you nevertheless took advantage of our tips on how to open a piggy bank without breaking, and it remained intact, we hasten to inform you that the hole in the gypsum base can also be easily repaired using gypsum mixture. In this case, after the gypsum has hardened, the piggy bank will be again as good as new. But you should not do all these manipulations in front of your child's eyes, otherwise he risks never filling her, constantly soaking, withdrawing funds and closing up his piggy bank with his own hands.
Quick accumulations to you!