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end the membership card madness!

By on November 19, 2009 in column j

membership cards i don’t carry all my cards in my wallet, frankly, it’s nigh impossible.

the picture you see next door is a select of the cards sitting in my “too much to carry around tray”. i’m sure at some point they were a novel and interesting way to identify yourself or provide information, but do we need all this plastic today? who has a wallet big enough to carry all this around? surely we can use electronic means by way of something you already carry? like a mobile phone for instance.

i beg you. end the the plastic card madness lest we all require sherpas to follow us around to carry our little plastic cards!

  • http://doingwords.com alan jones

    oh boy, i'll second that emotion! i have a folder full of membership cards at home but never carry anything other than drivers licence, medicare and credit/debit cards. i've found they can usually look me up in their POS terminal to credit me my whatever. if they can't, no big loss — in most cases I'm missing out on 1/1000th of a non-transferrable point that i can redeem for things I don't need advertised 20% over their usual street retail price.

  • http://doingwords.com alan jones

    …however, if you want to optimise your madness (rather than end it) you can use http://www.perkler.com!

  • http://www.jonathannguyen.net Jonathan Nguyen

    …or buy on ebay! the most annoying ones are where you NEED to have a a plastic card to do business with them. even hoyts made me get a damn card. hoyts! i just want to rot my brain for 90 minutes with meaningless trash! why do i need a card?!

  • http://mktgbytes.wordpress.com/ Tim Nicholas

    Jonathan, I can feel an iPhone app coming on! :0

  • http://www.jonathannguyen.net Jonathan Nguyen

    damn straight, that's a great idea! the only problem would be in five years time, i see myself blogging “end the iphone app madness!”

  • http://www.jonathannguyen.net Jonathan Nguyen

    damn straight, that's a great idea! the only problem would be in five years time, i see myself blogging “end the iphone app madness!”