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savings

On-Yomi: チョ — Kun-Yomi: た.める、たくわ.える

Elements:

savings, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, house, street, nail, spike

Heisig story:

To avoid confusing this frame with the last one, try to think of savings as actual money. The only difference is that our currency is not paper bills but shells, a not uncommon unit of exchange in older civilizations. The nail under the roof of the house points to a hiding place in the rafters on which one strings up one's shells for safekeeping.

Koohii stories:

1) [pmbeddall] 9-10-2007(158): It takes a lot more than one clam of savings to buy a house on a street.

2) [Danieru] 17-6-2008(68): My SAVINGS plan - I nail my moneybags up in the rafters below my roof. I'm very secretive about it, and I wear a disguise with a big mustache (another meaning of this kanji) while I stash my loot.

3) [trurlo] 14-2-2011(56): savings = money kept under the roof rather than spent on the street.

4) [CountPacula] 18-4-2008(53): Savings are the clams you have nailed down under your roof.

5) [dihutenosa] 27-8-2007(14): A slightly smarter guy has all of his SAVINGS - in the form of shells - nailed up just under the eaves of the floating roof.

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