The "Pa-Doink" Principle of Personal Savings
Posted August 13, 2008 - 08:52 by Sarah Winfrey
"Pa-doink" is the sound you hear when something small and heavy hits water. Think about a child throwing a coin into the fountain at a shopping mall: a toss and a pa-doink later, there's one more wish waiting to be granted and one more coin collecting at the bottom of the pool. I heard a story once about a man whose job it was to clean those coins out of the fountain. Twelve years later, the change from the bottom of the mall's fountain put his daughter through college.
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