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A special credit card to give to your wife. Most stores use a bar code which will catagorise the purchases. A special creidt card is given to the wife on which the husband sets limits. e.g. Food up to $100, clothes up to $50 per week. Then if the wife tries to exceed the limit a message is sent to the
husband's mobile phone to warn him.
He can then aprove the purchase, decline it, or phone the wife for a "discussion".
The card could also be set in "stealth" mode. i.e. branded as an ordinary Visa, and the husband just informed of what goes on.
This might not play well in liberal cultures such as the US and northern Europe, but would go down a storm in macho cultures such as Southern Europe and Arabic countries.
worst - according to the voting! a personal thing.
http://www.halfbake...:n=worst:i=:t=worst
[po, Oct 06 2004]
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Sounds like a great marriage. I'm very happy for you. </sarcasm> |
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bet most of the votes against are from women :-) |
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Debit cards (called bank cards in Europe, I believe) limit spending to what is in the bank account, and it is an easy matter to arrange weekly or monthly bank transfers, making it straightforward to ration someone's spending, whether it be your wife's, your teenager's or your own. |
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But if your relationship with your wife is so bad, I think you guys need counselling, not special credit cards. |
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Replace "wife" with "time-proven-fiscally-irresponsible-spouse" and you *might* have a shot at getting a croissant from someone. Not from me, however. |
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I wonder if this might be more palatable if restructured as a service for those who've experienced financial difficulty as a direct result of poor spending decisions. |
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Jeeze, this stereotype is so old and dumb. |
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manly fishbone from this guy |
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I remember now, one of the reasons for never re-marrying. |
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Some people borrow $50 and you love them, some give you $50 and you hate them. Its all in the presentation. The macho spin here guarantees bones. Delete, revise and repost as a solution to a problem and lets see how this idea does. As noted, this is really a card just for the fiscally irresponsible or unsophisticated. [Curry] points out that spending limits are baked, and so the novel thing here is the category-based limits as well as "stealth mode" Probably the best use would be for teenagers or college students, who need a card but also need supervision. |
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Feels like I've stumbled into Jurassic Park. |
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[carrot] are you married? Just curious. If not, [verfum] may have some sisters... |
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we have a best list. <just spent some time there>. is it time we had a worst list? some ideas just seem destined for it. |
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yes, just searched - it has been discussed before, sorry. |
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It is a known fact that no man with a penis larger than three inches cares about his wife's spending habits... |
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How does one correctly measure that diameter? |
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You don't need accuracy, it's a ballpark figure. |
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[ebbert] Oh, like a Louisville Slugger? |
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// [carrot] are you married? Just curious. // |
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k_sra, you have to ask? Hard to believe neanderthals like this still exist. |
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//Feels like I've stumbled into Jurassic Park//. |
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That'll be a DinosaurEgg card then. Or possibly Caveman Club Gold. |
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Please don't feed the liberal baiters, and [carrot] please try harder.
And on the subject of penis size; it might be short, but it's thin. |
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I'm voting for this, as I wish this had been around when I was married to Cuntzilla. |
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Would've made a great flick, 'The Battle of King Dong and Cuntzilla'. |
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How'd you know my other nic? Oops |
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Didn't think it would play well in a liberal society, but I still wonder if this might be a success in Southern Europe or Muslim countries. It's all a matter of marketing. |
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So you posted it to the Western hemisphere? Clever you. <g> |
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Isn't it a sado- masochist relationship when one party always has to look to the other party for approval ? |
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Maybe that's what's going on with [carrot] and his wife, if this is true then shame on all of you for all of the personal attacks on him. You need to learn to be more tolerant, even of cultures and practices you may not understand. |
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Welcome to the HB, SystemAdmin. |
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Neanderthal-husband-who-sets-grocery-limits-for-the-month: Where's my beer woman? |
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Wife-who-got-smart-and-used-this-against-him: There was only $100.00 on my grocery spending limit. After Slim-Fast, carrot sticks, tofu, alfalfa sprigs and various other healthy foods, I couldn't afford to buy your beer. We're going to have to talk about that, it's a very expensive habit. |
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**perhaps the time-proven-fiscally-irresponsible-spouse thing would have changed my view of the whole situation. That I can relate to.** |
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The stereotype is unfortunate. |
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I note that my idea is now 4th worse on half bakery, which gives me some sort of strange satisfaction. |
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If anyone still reads this topic, I'd be interested in knowing in what sense it's a "bad" idea? |
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i.e. would it not work, would it not make money, is it morraly repugnant? |
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The number of people who took this semi-seriously gives me hope that there may be something in it after all! |
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Actually, [carrot], this could be accomplished with nothing new - many cards offer the ability to monitor charges, balances and payments on line. To snoop on your spouse, son, parent, etc. just pull up the info for your card. |
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After reading some stuff this past weekend about adults with early dementia and their wildly irresponsible spending habits, it occurs to me that a monitoring system like [carrot's] or as described above would be useful to prevent catastrophe. |
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i'd like this so i can moniter myself. and my cat who is always spending more maney than i make. |
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I suggest using my favorite, The American Mistress Card, "Don't leave home with out her..." When I was last in France having esspresso with Jean Paul,,,, I realized that I had been robbed!! They got away with all of my American Mistress Travelers Chicks! But with American Mistress,, my travelers chicks were replaced within two business days! My American Mistress gives great service!! I'll never leave home without her! A truly satisfied customer, ydeRay |
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carrot, what they're (and I'm) saying is, revise the unfortunate stereotype to make it a solution to *a* problem, instead of *such-and-such really-flame-attractant-and-divisive issue*. Thanks. |
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for "really-flame-attractant-and-divisive issue" read
"really-interest-attractant-and-divisive issue" |
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When I read this topic I first thought that there were trading cards for wives. Husbands create cards of their wives including stats on the back. Send them to other guys around the neighbourhood and trade away. Puts more of an adult aspect on a kid hobby. |
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(Just make sure the wife doesn't find out!) |
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Kid aspect on an adult hobby ? |
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I thought it was funny. Nice job on pissing off a bunch of hippies. <highfive> |
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He's available ladies! No pushing in line, please! |
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The USA should give such a card to the president. The results should be published in The Washington Post. |
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[carrot] acquired a user account in the summer of 2003, posted this and one other idea that week, and was never heard from again. |
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I expect we scared her off. |
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