Saturday, March 28, 2009

Idea for banks

I would love the ability to create as many virtual savings accounts as I wanted to. I need to save money for dozens of things so when I get paid, I can transfer small amounts of money into these many small virtual accounts.

Let's say I want to save money for a new PC, a new bicycle and a new couch. I would log into my account on the web and create new V-Savings account with names

PC
bicycle
Couch

I could then transfer money from any account into these accounts and vice-versa.

This way I can easily track how much I have saved for each item. I can delete a V-Savings after I transfer all the money to another account. I would still have a primary savings account.

This would make my life easier. Currently I'm saving money for a dozen different things but all the money goes in one account so I have to keep track of how much I've saved for each item.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Thing-a-holic

This rock station I listen to had these ads for becoming a rock-a-holic. They had a parody of an alcoholic anonymous meeting. Instead of a cure, these meetings supplied their addiction. They implied that cure for a rock-a-holic is more rock.

Next I heard this ad for Carl's Jr. for their new Bourbon Burger. These people talked about how they cannot function without a Bourbon Burger saying the things a typical alcoholic might say. Of course the cure was to eat more Bourbon Burgers for these Bourbon Burger-a-holics.

I'm afraid I'll be hearing more companies advertise their products thinking it's funny to talk about addiction to their product and acting like their the drug dealers encouraging their addiction.

I know it's supposed to be funny but I can't help wonder how all these people feel who are addicted to something or who have been addicted to something.

I just feel these ads are stupid and insulting my intelligence. The cure for addiction is not more of the drug.