savings accounts one year to use toward going on vacation. So, whether they would have saved those exact silver dollars or not, in the end they would have been gone regardless. Now, we 3 boys probably would have donated our saving for our vacation. We always went up into Canada and stayed two weeks in a cabin. They were always great vacations and that was the last year one happened as my parents divorced the next year. It was that I was that naïve to believe that exactly what everyone put in their banks--coin-for-coin, was saved by the banks for each customer. I was disappointed to realize they wouldn't be. Bottom-line, I think it was foolish that we put them in the bank, because even then a silver dollar was worth more than just $1.