50/50 Savings Bank – $19.95

Are you having trouble deciding how much to save for something responsible versus something fun? You need the 50/50 Savings Bank from the NeatoShop. Life is so much more fun when you let fate decide.

The 50/50 Savings Bank is a pachinko-style coin bank with 2 separate coin compartments. It comes with a handy dandy dry erase marker so you can customize and personalize your bank.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more hilarious Money Banks & Storage options.

Link – Thanks for the suggestion John!

Confused by the European Sovereign Debt Crisis? Michael Cembalest, the Chief Investment Officer of J.P. Morgan's private bank enlisted the help of his son Peter (age 9) to illustrate the crisis ... with LEGO minifigs!

Surely you can see that the pig is the crux of the problem (How do I know? Cuz he's not even LEGO! Edit 9/7/11 - Hamm is a LEGO piece! Thanks TW George!)

Link - via GeekDad

The suspect was told by a teller and customer that he had to wait in line for his turn, and to take off his hoodie, police said. The suspect refused to remove his hoodie and left the bank.

He was last seen walking toward F Street, police said.

Police said no one was injured and no weapon was shown. The robbery attempt is under investigation and no arrests have been made, police said.

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(Unrelated image credit: Flickr user Nathan Huth)

Superhero Bust Banks – $15.95

Saving your pennies is hard work. Don’t trust your coins to just any piggy bank. You need a Superhero Bust Bank from the NeatoShop to protect your loose change. These banks mean business.

The Superhero Bust Bank is available in:

• Spider-Man (shown)
• Wolverine
• The Hulk
• Iron Man
• and Captain America

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Superhero items.

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Screen Junkies gives us the greatest bank robbery ever to appear in the movies, which is a supercut, because it takes a lot of robberies to be the best! Some language NSFW. Link -via The Daily What

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Money Bank – $39.95

Attention Ghostbusters fans! Behold the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Money Bank from the NeatoShop.  Who needs a piggy bank when the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Money Bank can protect your precious change!

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Home & Garden fun!

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]]> http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/10/stay-puft-marshmallow-man-money-bank/feed/ 0 http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/01/bank-robbers-dressed-as-nuns/ http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/01/bank-robbers-dressed-as-nuns/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:15:58 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=47048 Two people dressed a nuns robbed the West Englewood branch of TCF bank in Palos Heights, Illinois, Sunday afternoon. It was not the first robbery the branch has seen, according to detective Gerald Wodka.

This time two offenders entered the bank just minutes before closing time at 1:58 p.m., both with weapons, Wodka said.

They jumped over the counter and took control of two employees — a bank teller and the branch manager — ordered them to the vault where their Nike duffel bag was filled with currency, he said.

No shots were fired, and no one was injured. No customers were in the bank at the time. Police are not disclosing how much money was taken.

The robbers were dressed in black nun costumes as depicted in Ben Affleck’s movie, “The Town,” Wodka said.

Police are on the lookout for the suspects and their car, described at the Sun-Times. Link -via Arbroath

That’s what the management of the United Commercial Bank in Shani Shinganapur, Maharashtra, India, thought when they opened the first lockless bank:

"We took note of the general belief and faith of the people. Ever since the most revered temple came into existence several years ago, the village has not witnessed a single crime. In fact, all houses in the entire village have no doors. We took the risk and started the lockless bank a week ago," a senior bank official said. [...]

Gadakh explained that, by and large, it is believed that because of Lord Shani’s power, the village has not witnessed a single theft or robbery in the recent past. "People here fear that if there is a theft or robbery, then the culprit and their family have to bear the wrath of Lord Shani," he said.

Meanwhile, the cops aren’t too happy:

… unhappy local cops said the branch has been started in violation of norms prescribed by the Centre. "In view of increasing bank robberies, the Centre has made it mandatory for all banks to provide state-of-the-art security. If a bank opens a lockless branch, it amounts to a breach of conditions. We will take it up with the DGP and RBI," a senior police official said.

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Police arrested 27-year-old Albert Bailey and an unidentified 16-year-old boy on robbery charges on Tuesday afternoon.

Sgt James Perez said the two Bridgeport residents turned up at the bank about 10 minutes after making the call and were met by police in the bank’s car park.

Sgt Perez told the Connecticut Post that, in his opinion, the suspects were “not too bright”.

Link | Photo: flickr user gcfairch, used under Creative Commons license

This cute Japanese coin bank has a kitten inside with its hand raised just like Maneki Neko! In this case, money does come to him. I wish I knew where to buy this. -via Buzzfeed

Update: You can get one here. -Thanks, Rumpus!

The safest place is keep your money is to stuff it into your mattress. Or, alternatively, this mattress-shaped piggy bank which received no TARP funds and comes complete with a miniature pillow.

Link via Nerd Approved

In a world filled with headlines about CEO’s and executives running their companies to the ground, and holding lavish parties and getaways on taxpayer funded bailouts, here is a refreshingly touching story of one very different individual. 

Leonard Abess Jr., CEO of City National Bank in Florida, sold 83% of his stake in the bank to a Spanish company, and then used the proceeds to reward his very own employees.

At a time when bankers are being pilloried on Capitol Hill as heartless and greedy, Leonard Abess Jr. stands apart.

After selling his bank for a fortune last fall, he quietly handed out $60 million in bonuses from his own pocket — and not just to top executives. In all, 471 employees and retirees, including tellers, clerks and secretaries, were rewarded, receiving an average of about $127,000 each.

“I think everybody was surprised. But knowing Leonard, the type of person he is, I can believe him giving it away,” said retiree William Perry, who spent 43 years at City National Bank of Florida, rising from janitor to vice president. Perry, 78, got $50,000, which he is using to help his son pay for law school.

For his generosity and humility, Abess was singled out for praise by President Barack Obama in his congressional address Tuesday. Abess attended as Obama’s guest.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geekazoid.

The infusion of money may have kept credit from tightening up further, but it certainly didn’t jump-start the economy — banks didn’t resume lending to businesses and consumers. Stock prices never really recovered from their early autumn plunges, and more than half a million jobs vanished just last month. With the benefit of hindsight, lawmakers now express regret about the way the bailout was handled — with few provisions for oversight of the banks or the Bush administration — and the public hates it more than ever. The feeling that money and political capital were squandered even helped endanger the far cheaper and more popular bailout of the auto industry. So what went wrong — and where did all that money go?

A lot of it is, apparently, just sitting in the bank. A Government Accounting Office audit released earlier this month showed the Treasury Department doling out buckets of cash: $15 billion for Bank of America, $45 billion for Citigroup, $3.5 billion to Capital One, nearly $6.6 billion to U.S. Bancorp. The feds were essentially taking out the trash — buying shares in various banks that had gotten themselves into trouble by issuing crappy mortgages using complicated formulas, assuming the cost of many of the mortgage-backed securities that were weighing down the balance sheets of every financial institution in the country. The feds were pumping money into these banks so they would feel free to make more loans — better, simpler, sounder loans. The epidemic of exploding mortgages and failing institutions would ease. But the banks did not start making new loans. They seemed to sit on their federal windfalls.

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This is the point where I would be remiss if I didn’t point out our own T-Shirt on this subject: The $700 Billion T-Shirt