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Idiom: Burn a hole in your pocket
Remember your childhood when a few small coins burned a hole in your pocket until you went to the local corner store and spent them on some sweets?
Those are warm and fuzzy memories, aren’t they?
Come to think of it, sometimes the candies were fuzzy too.
If I remember correctly, I often put candies in my pocket and forgot about them.
By the time I found them again, they were covered in pocket lint.
You know what?
I probably still ate them.
Anyway, that’s beside the point.
Today’s phrase is burn a hole in your pocket, and it’s used when a person has money and wants to spend it all very quickly.
I’ve already done the proverb a fool, and his money are soon parted back in October 2017.
To put the two phrases together, a fool and his money are soon parted because a fool allows his money to burn a hole in his pocket.
In Japan, giving children a small monetary gift for New Year’s is common.
If that were the practice in Canada, many mothers would warn their children not to let the money burn a hole in their pocket.
The little children would be marched down to the local bank to open a savings account.
It may only be a drop in the bucket, but university education is expensive these days, and every little bit helps.
The same advice could be applied to us adults, too.
Don’t let that loose change burn a hole in your pocket.
Put it in a jar and save it for a rainy day.
Yes, you may feel that after a hard day at work, you deserve a ￥120 can of coffee, but a penny saved is a penny earned.
Who knows when you’ll have to dip into your rainy day fund?
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