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Penny saved is a penny earned -- and spent on your mortgage

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(KYTX) - The saying goes a penny saved is a penny earned.

And no one has followed that life lesson more than one man from Massachusetts.

35 years ago, business owner Thomas Daigle was leaving the bank after getting a new mortgage on his home when he saw a penny just laying in the parking lot, and that's where it all started.

This spring, Daigle showed up to his bank with two large metal boxes full off rolled pennies, 62,000 of them.

"I roll pennies. It would be 3 or 4 rolls or 5 rolls and I put them down in a box under my work shop.

It's teaching the value of a penny teaching discipline. Young couples, young people today need to learn to save," says Daigle.

The two steel boxes weighed more than 200 pounds each.

Daigle says he's glad to have the coins out of his house.

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