About Wow Imports
Wow! Imports, a family business, is the premier online store for African fair trade bead & wire art, including beaded animal figurines, piggy banks, beaded key chains, beaded zipper pulls, wire wrapped and beaded serving pieces, beaded Christmas ornaments and recycled plastic bag animals.
We offer the widest selection of styles and languages of handmade sterling silver and 14k gold personalized name jewelry. This includes Carrie necklaces, name necklaces, name rings, name earrings, name bracelets, name anklets, personalized key chains & zipper pulls and personalized cufflinks.
Our master artisans are dedicated to handcrafting the finest wire & bead art, recycled art and name jewelry. Contact us with your custom beaded wire art and personalized jewelry design requests.
We are committed to socially responsible and fair trade practices. Our African crafters are disadvantaged artisans from Zimbabwe and South African townships. They set their own wages and hours and are provided with materials and pleasant work accommodations. We provide them with useful customer feedback to help them create the finest and most marketable designs.
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History of Piggy Banks
After selling
piggy banks for more than a year it suddenly dawned
on me, why are they called
piggy banks? What does a pig have to do with saving
money? A pig would be the last animal you'd associate
with saving! Why not bunny banks or doggy banks and for
that matter, why an animal at all?! Additionally, piggy
bank sounds like it was intended as a child's item as
how many adults would use a piggy bank for collecting
change? To satisfy my curiosity I did some piggy bank
research and have learned some interesting things and
thought I'd share them with you.
more on piggy banks