Praise for primary school kid who saved 4,000 baht to buy her mum a gold ring for her birthday

[webfact]

Sanook Thai Caption: What a child!

 

It was the latest video featuring Thais who have saved money. 

 

This time it went viral on TikTok under the name of zumo4422.

 

It featured a little girl in P4 who went into a gold shop in Serm Thai Complex in Maha Sarakham in the north east of the country, reported Sanook.

 

The girl had saved up 4,000 baht that was neatly packaged in big and small notes. 

 

 

She said she wanted to get a gold ring for her mum's birthday.

 

The shop gave her a special discount and a goody bag to mark her efforts.

 

And told her that if it was the wrong size then her mum could return it within three days. 

 

ASEAN NOW notes that Thais are not renowned for the ability to save money, that may explain the spate of stories recently. 

 

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@zumo4422 เชื่อว่าของขวัญวันเกิดชิ้นนี้คุณแม่ต้องภูมิใจในความตั้งใจในตัวน้อง ขออนุญาตแชร์ความน่าประทับใจแบบนี้ลง Tiktok ค่ะ ????❤️ #เก็บเงินซื้อทองให้แม่ #ห้างทองพุทธศิลป์ช่างทองเสริมไทยคอมเพล็กซ์ #ทองแท้เยาวราช #เด็กกตัญญู #fyp #อย่าปิดกั้นการมองเห็น ♬ เสียงต้นฉบับ - แตงโม คนรักควาย????

[Liverpool Lou]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

ASEAN NOW notes that Thais are not renowned for the ability to save money

They are?

[KannikaP]

Wonder where the money, in Bht 1000 bills, came from.

[JeffersLos]

17 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Wonder where the money, in Bht 1000 bills, came from.

The school printer? 

[ezzra]

I know off many adults who doesn't have that much to their name let alone a kid, hopefully this ring will end up being pawned like most jewelries Thai people own...

[Tropicalevo]

Well done young lady.

The world needs more like you.

[billd766]

So many cynical posts about a young girl who obviously loves her Mum a lot.

 

Good for the young girl.

 

I for one am proud of you.

[BritScot]

I have found that Thai's in general especially girls/women have such respect for their parent's.  I think it is a very commendable trait. My wife who is Thai is exceptionally good at saving and dosent like spending money on herself.

[swm59nj]

It’s a lot of money for a person that age to have.  And I did wonder how she was able to save all that money at her age.  I’m surprised that wasn’t asked when she was interviewed.  But it was on Tic Toc.  
But kudos to her.  The young lady did a very nice gesture.  Buying a ring for her mother. 

[Lopchan]

 

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

So many cynical posts about a young girl who obviously loves her Mum a lot.

 

Good for the young girl.

 

I for one am proud of you.

I agree totally, all these sour, jaded sexpats who have to berate even a nice piece of news every time...hoping Karma will visit them soon in the same horrible, negative way they talk about Thailand and Thais the mag@ots.

[bangon04]

"ASEAN NOW notes that Thais are not renowned for the ability to save money, that may explain the spate of stories recently. "

 

Are Piggy Banks a thing in Thailand?   or only in Temples.......?  

[PETERTHEEATER]

4 hours ago, BritScot said:

I have found that Thai's in general especially girls/women have such respect for their parent's.  I think it is a very commendable trait. My wife who is Thai is exceptionally good at saving and dosent like spending money on herself.

Fancy a swap?

[gomangosteen]

1 hour ago, bangon04 said:

Are Piggy Banks a thing in Thailand?   or only in Temples.......?  

OmSin bank gives them out on kids' birthdays.

Daughter #2 is an absolute Scrooge and has over 83,000 in her bank account now, plus whatever there is in her neatly organised row of piggy banks - one for each denomination coin, one for notes.

For years we've given her whatever coin change we've had at day's end, sure mounts up, when she has 1000 it gets banked.

Note: mother an accountant, is saving hereditary?

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

hopefully this ring will end up being pawned like most jewelries Thai people own...

Why would you hope that her mother pawns her birthday gift from her daughter?

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Wonder where the money, in Bht 1000 bills, came from.

Perhaps it used to be 20s that she changed.   

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, swm59nj said:

I did wonder how she was able to save all that money at her age.

Why the gratuitous cynicism; perhaps she saved it over a long period of time?

[Adumbration]

This story is propaganda nonsense, but the math does check out.

 

Thai gold is sold by the baht weight.

 

But each baht weight consists of 4 salungs each weighing 3.81 grams.

 

I see the shop keeper weighed the ring and it the scale registered 1.9 grams so one half of a salung or 1/8 of a baht.

 

1/8 as a decimal is 0.125.

 

If you multiply 0.125 by the current price of 1 baht of thai gold you get (roughly) a 4KTHB sales price.

 

However the shop keepers scales indicated that the ring was just under a proper half salung so short changed the kid it would seem.

 

As an afterthough when rewatching the clip...the ring must also be hollow...it is quite big...and so could never weigh in at 1.9 grams if it was solid gold.

[hotchilli]

16 hours ago, billd766 said:

So many cynical posts about a young girl who obviously loves her Mum a lot.

 

Good for the young girl.

 

I for one am proud of you.

She gets my vote too... bless the young girl.

[billd766]

16 hours ago, Adumbration said:

This story is propaganda nonsense, but the math does check out.

 

Thai gold is sold by the baht weight.

 

But each baht weight consists of 4 salungs each weighing 3.81 grams.

 

I see the shop keeper weighed the ring and it the scale registered 1.9 grams so one half of a salung or 1/8 of a baht.

 

1/8 as a decimal is 0.125.

 

If you multiply 0.125 by the current price of 1 baht of thai gold you get (roughly) a 4KTHB sales price.

 

However the shop keepers scales indicated that the ring was just under a proper half salung so short changed the kid it would seem.

 

As an afterthough when rewatching the clip...the ring must also be hollow...it is quite big...and so could never weigh in at 1.9 grams if it was solid gold.

Just another cynic who cannot believe in a good luck story about Thais when one comes along.

 

Many decades ago my Mum told me that if I  can find nothing good to say about something, it is best to say nothing.

 

Looking at some of these comments, she was right, yours among them.