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title: '"Me and My War Savings Are Just Like This!" They''re Good Things to Have and to Hold'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-me-and-my-war-savings-have-and-to-hold-1939/
description: A winking woman with crossed fingers sits above Dominion of Canada War Savings Certificates and bonds, with the text 'They're good things to have
section: Collection
---

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[!["Me and My War Savings Are Just Like This!" They're Good Things to Have and to Hold, 1939 Canada poster: A winking woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-me-and-my-war-savings-have-and-to-hold-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-me-and-my-war-savings-have-and-to-hold-1939.jpg)

# "Me and My War Savings Are Just Like This!" They're Good Things to Have and to Hold

A winking woman with crossed fingers sits above Dominion of Canada War Savings Certificates and bonds, with the text 'They're good things to have and to hold'. The tell is the wedding-vow phrasing applied to certificates, which offers a virtue-word promise ('good things') in place of terms such as rate or maturity.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"ME AND MY
WAR SAVINGS
ARE JUST LIKE
THIS!"

THEY'RE GOOD THINGS TO
HAVE AND TO HOLD

[signature:] JACK KEAY
[certificates pictured:] DOMINION OF CANADA ... WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATE / CERTIFICAT D'EPARGNE DE GUERRE
```

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