Vag-Like Plastic Coin Holders
- November 10th, 2008 10:08 am
On Twitter last week, I randomly thought about those plastic vagina shaped/like coin holders that banks and other businesses used to give out. I’ve been told they are called squeeze purses. But truthfully, I don’t care what you call them. They look like plastic vaginas to me.
Look at them:
Do you see what I mean?
I can’t imagine carrying my coins around in a plastic vagina. Look at this guy, he’s making it even worse!
How dare he keep buttons and such in his plastic vagina!
My problem is that I just think it would be sort of awkward having to pull out coins in the store and removing them from a plastic vagina.
Truthfully, those things looked like they were pulled right off of a Real Doll. Are they kidnapping Real Doll vaginas and giving them away as corn purses? Oh, the mysteries.
Also, Burgh totally admitted to still carrying her coins around in a plastic vagina.
@ShameleslySassy I still use a Vag-holder to this day. LOVE it because it’s pink with a fun bank logo on it.
Are guilty of this too? Did the banks in your hometown give these out?
I find them semi disturbing.
November 10th, 2008 @ 9:46 pm
Oh, I miss those! We used to call them clams, which is not QUITE as bad as plastic vagina. Then again, I never had a purty pink ‘un like yours!
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November 10th, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
If my hometown bank (the one I work at) were to give these away, they’d be green and gold … which screams “GO TO THE DOCTOR YOUR VAG-LIKE COIN PURSE IS INFECTED!”
I think that’d be funny. I shall be suggesting this at our next meeting. I think my personal banker and I would pee ourselves laughing as we gave them out.
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November 10th, 2008 @ 9:52 pm
I miss them too! My sister and I had several plastic vaginas in varying colors. Some were even on keychains!
Ah, vaginal nostalgia.
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November 10th, 2008 @ 9:52 pm
I kind of collected vag-like plastic coin holders as a kid. I had some weird obsession with them. That might explain a lot.
November 10th, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
I had never seen them until I saw this post.
Obviously Australian banks are cheapskates who never give out any free stuff.
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November 10th, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
I could never get those damn things open! Of course all the slutty girls could, hmmm….
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November 10th, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
My parents used to make me take my milk money to school in those things. I could never figure out why I couldn’t just put my money in my pocket, since it would have taken up a lot less space than the little Pocket Vag (and would have been easier to get the money out).
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, I think.
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November 10th, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
I keep my plastic vaginas where they belong and that’s in the nightstand by my bed.
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November 10th, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
That was funny! I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I never quite thought of them that way. I used to have several of them, either from the gas station or the bank. My friends and I used to pinch each other with them.
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November 10th, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Dude I totally used to pack around one of those. You are right, it does look like a vagina. Weird.
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
I am NOT guilty of this. I’ve never had one. It looks like something my boys would love…and I don’t mean that in a gross way.
They do look like vaginas though, I totally agree. Now I could never ever even think of using one, not that I ever have…
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
I remember those!! I never really thought they looked like vagina’s though, until now…. lol.
November 11th, 2008 @ 12:05 am
I never quite thought of them in *that* way. But as a kid I used to carry one. Didn’t everyone?
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November 11th, 2008 @ 12:20 am
I now know why I never liked those things. Ever.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 2:14 am
Why are there paperclips and buttons in the purple plastic vagina? Who carries that around? MacGyver?
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November 11th, 2008 @ 4:02 am
it is SO funny that you bring these up because i was JUST talking about them with my friend Lindsay, and how i always wanted one, but could never really find one.. elderly white haired men have them ALL the time when they come through my line at work and count out their exact change. but now that you mention it, they are kinda creepy.
November 11th, 2008 @ 4:04 am
I seriously think that an STD clinic needs to pick up on this one as a marketing gimmick. Or maybe not. Fantastic.
Have you seen this pic? http://www.flickr.com/photos/shmoovio/252096269/
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November 11th, 2008 @ 5:17 am
I don’t think I’d ever seen a pink one before, so I’d never made the vag connection.
Ew.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 7:05 am
i remember a bank in our hometown handing those out. i used to think they were so called. mind you, i wouldn’t be carrying around a plastic vagina today, especially since you just pointed out that they look like a vagina. greattt!
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November 11th, 2008 @ 7:05 am
i meant to write “so cool” not “so called”
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November 11th, 2008 @ 7:43 am
Never thought of those things that way before, but now I will never look at them the same way. I actually bought some for my kids in an airport once.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 8:08 am
Just what I need. I never thought of those things in that fashion. Now I will never be able to look at them in the same way again. And, truth be told, I really don’t need more reminders - more ways to be prompted to think about vaginas. And Mons Veneris. And Pubes. And — OH THANKS A LOT!
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November 11th, 2008 @ 8:35 am
You should totally pass them out to male friends. Inside include one of those plastic letter “G”s and on the G put a garage sale circle sticker on it. Haha…
November 11th, 2008 @ 8:50 am
You know…I’d never even thought about how they look like vaginas. But no, I don’t have one. LOL
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November 11th, 2008 @ 8:54 am
nope - never used them…they’re just gross looking.
~K
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November 11th, 2008 @ 9:27 am
I remember them from when I was a kid. They gave them out all the time. But you know, now that I look at it again, I find them very disturbing. I mean, I use to carry around plastic vaginas and I didn’t even know it.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 9:49 am
I had never thought of it that way. I guess they do now that I think about it. Which makes it worse when I think what to what I used to do with them.
I used to squeeze them and pretend talk with them. Now that I’ve read this post. Ewwww!!!
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November 11th, 2008 @ 10:28 am
riiiiiiight…
so that’s the one!!!!!!
I had one of thooooose!
loooong time no see!
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November 11th, 2008 @ 10:29 am
Ahaha! I never thought of that but I remember them!
I haven’t seen one in a really long time..
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November 11th, 2008 @ 10:44 am
OMG that’s FUNNY. I haven’t seen those in years and truthfully the last time I did, I was probably too young to even think that it looked like one but you are SO right.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 10:53 am
My grandmother thought it was funny to bring those to us as children. I actually had my finger stuck in one. It was a “harder than usual” plastic, and it literally got stuck. Guess I shouldn’t have been sticking my finger in it…eh?
BTW< yes this can TOTALLY be taken the wrong way.
November 11th, 2008 @ 11:20 am
i never would of thought that about those. My nonna uses them all the time.
November 11th, 2008 @ 11:34 am
Hmmmm…now that I think about it, your right! I haven’t see those in years where I live, though! Maybe it’s just a male thing? ;oD
Stephanie
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November 11th, 2008 @ 11:56 am
I see a lot of old people using them. Maybe because they don’t remember what a vagina looks like.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
I just snorted my pop out my nose…you are sooooo right….egawd!
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November 11th, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Now I want one.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Don’t hate on the squeeze purses. My grandpa carried one for years….Is that weird?
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November 11th, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
This is the funniest post I’ve read all day!
I’ve never kept my coins or anything else in a plastic vagina…well I mean there was that time in vegas…but you know what they say about vegas.
This always seemed like a stupid invention to me. Not only does it look like a vagina, but it seems like it’s fairly cumbersome and consequently could quickly purge it’s entire contents into your purse/pocket/whatever. This invention is a whole bunch of fail in my eyes, and using it for advertising purposes is horrendous, unless you are planned parenthood, or some organization like that…so it looks like they have the right idea above and that they agree it looks like a vag
Keep up the awesome work,
Jason
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November 11th, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
Love the blog, love this post.
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November 11th, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
Oh my gosh I never even understood what the hell those were for until just now. So thanks!
And they so look like vaginas.
November 11th, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
I had these as a kid, but “vagina” never crossed my mind until now. Hilarious! Even funnier, earlier this week my daughter found one of these in the check-out line at WalMart and asked what it was. (It was red, not pink, which is even more gross!) I started laughing because I remembered seeing this conversation on Twitter. I swear I haven’t seen or thought about these for over 20 years, and now twice in one week!
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November 11th, 2008 @ 11:41 pm
I use to have one of those, and it was so handy. Now I’ll always think of girl parts when I see one. So I’ll totally have to buy one and use it to torment others.
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November 12th, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
I only see old men using the plastic vag coin holders. THAT disturbs me even more! Wrinkly old fingers pokin around in there…
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November 12th, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
OMG! I haven’t seen one of those in AGES!! My Grammy used to have them when I was growing up. I didn’t even know what a vagina was back then, but, yes, they totally do look like one!
Thanks for the flashback
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November 12th, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
no one around here gives them out but I do remember them. I used to torture my brothers with them. While they were sleeping I would attach them to their necks with the opening. I guess given that they remind people of fake vaginas that is pretty gross.
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November 12th, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
My grandpa has one…is that bad?
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November 13th, 2008 @ 12:14 am
When I was a kid I had to take my lunch money to school in a bright green shiny vag-purse. My little hands could barely work it. It was so damn large in my tiny paws - I had a real hard time squeezing it to get the contents out.
True story. I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried.
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November 13th, 2008 @ 1:57 am
I so miss those, they have never engineered something so obscene and useful, well, ok they have, but those things are downright efficient.
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November 13th, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
My Grandmother used to use these all the time.. and now I will never be able to look at one the same again. You have ruined the purity.. lol
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November 19th, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
Oh my….talk about inappropriate laughter at work, you know, while I’m supposed to be working.
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 7:32 am
THESE are vag-coin holders…
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_gallery_3&listing_id=15445565