The first thing to come out of the hole in the bottom of the pink piggy bank is a white plastic bag with red print. Knotted to it is another, and another after that. “They’re, like, tied together,” says the thrifter behind @miles8katrina, pulling the chain out by hand. “It sounds like plastic inside.”

The video, posted on December 3, 2025, carries one line of on screen text: “I spent $10.99 & found $2,028 At goodwill.” The unpacking happens in a car, with the bank tipped over on the seat so the round opening on its underside, between the feet, faces the camera.

Once the bags are out, the camera looks straight into the opening, then a hand comes up holding a tight roll of bills with a black band around it. “Do you see that? Do you see that?” the thrifter says. “I’m, like, shaking right now.” Then the correction to the earlier guess: “Not plastic. It’s wads of money.” A second look into the bank follows, with the words, “There’s more in there.”

The video cuts to a dark tabletop. The bank lies on its side and the cash is spread out in front of it in folded wads and rolls, the purple numeral of a five dollar bill showing on one stack. “I am in shock right now,” the thrifter says. “I just counted all of this money, and there’s $2,028 that was inside this piggy bank filled with plastic bags all tied to each other.”

The price is on camera too. A blue tag reading $10.99 is still stuck to the bank’s back, in the middle of a raised design of white and orange flowers and green leaves. “I paid $10.99 for this piggy bank, you guys,” the thrifter says. The last shot takes in the pig’s painted face, its eyes turned upward, next to the money.

The count is the thrifter’s own, made off camera, and the video ends without saying what happens to the money next.

Checking a Secondhand Bank Before and After the Register

The clue in this video was sound. A bank full of coins rattles. This one rustled, and the thrifter’s first read was “plastic inside.” In the store aisle, pick a bank up and tip it from end to end. A soft shifting noise, or weight with no rattle at all, is the reason to look closer.

Next, find the opening. On this bank it is a round hole on the underside, and everything inside came out through it without breaking anything. Turn the piece over, pull the stopper if there is one, and shine a phone light in. Bags wrapped around the contents, as they were here, can hide them from a glance through the coin slot.

If something is in there after you have paid, record the way this thrifter did. Start filming before anything comes out, keep the price tag on the piece and get it in the shot, and lay everything out on a clear surface before counting. The $10.99 tag on the pig’s back is what puts the purchase price on record in this footage.

Keep the receipt with the packaging. In this case that means the knotted bags with the red print and the band around the roll. If you take the find back to the store to ask about the donor, those and the date on the receipt are the only details anyone could use to match it to a person.

The same check works in reverse for anyone clearing out a relative’s house. Before a bank, tin or jar goes in the donation box, open it and reach inside, because the bags in this one meant no coins rattled to give it away.