Comments on: Get a Savings Account that Offers Better Interest (49/365)

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:21:37 +0000

to #11
I would deliberately have repeated ‘reasonably competitive interest rate’, which is the topic in question. I think there are some words/phrases used in every post which could really use a change-up, but this doesn’t seem like an example of a problem.

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:58:04 +0000

@12: Several commenters are reacting to the unusual nature of the photo that accompanies the post, which demonstrates that the photo is a distraction (rather than an enhancement) to the post.

By: pollyanna

pollyanna — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:34:46 +0000

the only comment that even touched on the subject here was ChrisD. i really hate reading through all the article critic to get to some real talk about the subject.

By: deRuiter

deRuiter — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:49:28 +0000

“…the bank offers a reasonably competitive interest rate for the moment which means there’s a reasonable likelihood that it will continue to have a reasonably competitive interest rate.: If I had a passion for writing there’s a reasonable chance I would invest in a copy of Roget’s thesaurus for easy access to synonyms which would improve the quality of my writing considerably.

By: Robin S

Robin S — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:48:50 +0000

Didn’t we skip number 2? I’m so confused.

By: ChrisD

ChrisD — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:19:06 +0000

In the UK if a bank offers an interest rate, it is guaranteed for a year. After that of course it drops down to 0.5%. So to get back to 2.5-3% (we seem to get somewhat higher rates) you have to put in a bit of work every year (this refers to a savings accounts, checking pays nothing, even before 2008). One bank offered me a ‘new’ account at the end of the year (basically I had to phone up and say ‘please give me a new account with the good rates’) this rate was not the best anymore, but the reduced hassle was well worth the loss of 0.25-0.5% over the next year.

Those graphs/stories that illustrate the power of compound interest by saying you forget $5 in an account and 200 years later you own the earth, really annoy me as the banks make sure that will NEVER happen (the Futurama episode gets a pass as it is a good joke).

By: BD

BD — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:17:25 +0000

Roberta – When I first saw it, I thought it was the letter “m” cut out by a small child. Took me a second to realize it was the number 3.
Either way, the picture is distracting from the article.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:21:57 +0000

It’s not a three-year old Texas sheet cake?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:14:48 +0000

I really think it would do Brittany some good to look at the critiques of her photos and reshoot as much of the series that remains as possible.

I mean, a homemade paper 3 on a pile of green-brown paint really isn’t going to look great in a portfolio.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:30:19 +0000

What it does mean, though, is that the bank offers a reasonably competitive interest rate for the moment which means there’s a reasonable likelihood that it will continue to have a reasonably competitive interest rate.

That sounds reasonable.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:22:57 +0000

I think the numbers are the amount of interest Trent conservatively estimated you could get on your checking or savings account when he first wrote his book. Probably not the best idea for a picture series, though I get that interest is hard to represent in a photo. But even finding an example of the numbers in the wild, so to speak, probably would have worked better.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:10:04 +0000

that would be “number” not “nubmer”

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:08:48 +0000

OK… maybe the nubmer of the topic in this particular genre of frugality ideas, like the series on transportation?

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:06:56 +0000

The pictures…… my first thought on the #1 was that it was a homemade marker colored age number on a chocolate frosted birthday cake…. pretty clever and frugal for a baby who wouldn’t know any better. Then I thought maybe it was supposed to represent the amount of interest you could get on your checking account. Wrong on both counts. OK – I give up. A marker-colored number on a bumpy painted wall? Water colors on mud? Some kind of art statement I’m not clever enough to understand? Please… Trent or Brittany..explain it to us. It’s haunting my dreams…..