Saving up for a nest egg was never this hard! The opportunity to go to South Africa and to get a nest egg came up. Marie, still wealthy thanks to her nest egg, packs up and leaves London. A portion of retirement income often comes from savings; colloquially, "tapping into the Nest Egg". They use the money as a nest egg for their life in Florence. The grand prize is a $100,000 wedding and a $25,000 nest egg. The word "knipl" means roughly "nest egg" or housewife hidden savings in Yiddish.