Making your children save money or indeed saving yourself can be hard, but now there is a fun way to save with the Mechanical Kitty Coin Bank. This delightful money bank is imported from Japan and is styled like an ordinary cardboard box with Japanese characters on it.

What’s great about this money bank is that if you put a coin into the food tray on the top, a mischievous kitty will pop up and steal it, meowing as it goes. It’s great to watch and you will get addicted to it, thus saving you lots of money without you realising it.

The Mechanical Kitty Coin Bank is available with a brown or white kitty inside and requires two AA batteries (not supplied). It is available from Think Geek now for $29.99.