1980's money boxes /USA Biscuit tin

"When I was young in the 1980's my grandfather brought me to the Cork and Limerick Trustee Savings Bank in Ballincollig to open my first bank account. I was given the crow money box on the right that day. Before that bank opened we used to have to rely on a mobile bank which came once a week. It was the size of a small rigid lorry and I remember the excitement of going in on a Tuesday on School holidays each summer. It was such a novelty back then. I don't know when mobile banks were phased out in Ireland. Opening that bank account was my first step in to a grown up world aged seven. Years later we had a school bank in 6th class and two of us used to assist the tellers every 2 weeks - I got the Henry Hippo money box for helping out. Both have been in storage for about 30 years (hence all the dust and were only found last week when a plumber had to repair pipes under the hotpress - i obviously put them there for safe keeping and forgot!). Both still have old currency in them. Most children in Ireland in the eighties had either of these money boxes in their homes and it signaled for many their first independent steps as savers. The USA box on the right is very battered and dates from 1983-84. It has been battered and bashed over the years but seeing this box always heralded the beginning of Christmas in our house. Like many an Irish Home it no longer holds biscuits but my mothers sewing materials (as it has done for the last 33 years). Great memories related to all three objects of an eighties childhood."