It Grows on Trees

Metamorphosis is what happens when you deposit money in your savings account and watch it transform itself into bank profits.

That's because, currently, you get less than 20c interest per annum on every $100 in the account while bank fees spiral higher and higher.

You don't believe it? Take a closer look at your savings account.

So what do you do with it?

You can't put it under your bed because, as Bob Hawke once remarked, "the commies are under the bed." You can't bury it in the garden . . .

Or can you?

Entrepreneur Santo Peccadillo of Castlereagh has come up with a great investment idea—money trees.

At this time of the year there is a guaranteed demand for small pine trees to fill the home with the fragrance of Christmas and Mr Peccadillo offers to sell you inexpensive seedlings. Plant them in the back yard and nurture them for just twelve months before reaping your profit.

Unsold trees should be allowed to grow into pine forests for chipping, although unit dwellers might expect some hostility from unsympathetic bodies corporate.

Merry Christmas.