I have this habit of saving my money on a piggy bank. Whether it's a coin or paper I will put it on my piggy.
So if this emergency like this happens to me then I will break my piggy then.
thats a good saving methods, used to do the same when i was a kid. but now, its hard to save on piggy bank, since almost all loose change/coins are always end up with the beggars/homeless on the streets.
you drive along EDSA, maybe somewhere Quezon avenue?
i sometimes watch those kids knocks car windows, they'd just play cards and gamble if you give them coins, give them food instead.
the rest of us perhaps hold some altcoins in hopes for its price to go up later. like me, if i needed the money, i just sell them to btc.