money tins are an awesome idea for encouraging kidlets (even the 40 year old ones) to save some money! about six weeks before Christmas DH and i decided to start throwing any stray $2 coins in a money box for when we had a weekend away just before Christmas - in 4 weeks, we had put over $70 in there! we have a mammoth money box that all 5c pieces get thrown in - no idea how much is in there so far, but it really doesn't take much time when you put it all in there!!