Collected Thoughts on Card Design (Part 2)

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New addition to our household. Definite Smile vibes (I had the metallic pink Smile credit card):

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Wouldn’t it be easier to do everything based on the 1st of the month rather than the arbitrary day you get paid? If you got another job and the day moved it’d mess up the system. I get paid in the 1st so it works, but if I got a different job I’d leave the salary alone until the 1st and then sort it. That way I have clean monthly budgeting periods.

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Is this a new design? :grinning_face:

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Sort of. It’s an U16 account, which launched last July/August to beta users and is now fully launched (?):

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I think it’s now open to everyone. We have one of each colour now.

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That’s what we do. As a freelancer I used to pay myself on 28th (just because there was a 28th in every month and it was easy to automate). Now I’m on the payroll it’s 24th, or working day before, or a bit earlier in December). For my wife it’s 27th or working day before.

Everything goes into a pot, and on the 1st of the month everything moves around and we end up just with our monthly spending allowance left in our personal accounts, fuel and grocery shopping funds left in the joint account, and pots replenished (for bills) or added to (for savings).

As a result, the actual date of payday is irrelevant.

Edit: although we’re rather off-topic, is there a get paid early thread?

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TRADE REPUBLIC MIRROR VISA DEBIT CARD FROM GERMANY

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Nice design but already looks as scratched as hell. Without scratches it’s a nice looking card though.

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I prospect that other card companies will issue such “mirror” design card sooner or later. For example, Revolut…!?

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Replacement Barclays Premier card is pretty nice

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I know this isn’t banking related but this has to be the nicest card opening experience to date. I’m glad to know that Howard designed the chair, super comfortable.

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I really, really like the simplicity of the new Premier design.

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Looks nice, but the dust on that keyboard is making me not to like the post :face_with_hand_over_mouth::face_with_peeking_eye:

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This I do like.

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Feels like Monzo is letting the side down a bit here.

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On my god I would LOVE another pink card. My neon one is very nearly dead and I’m sad to be going back to a blue holographic one.

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Atleast you get holo blue!

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All new GCB CNY-Mastercard debit card (platinum/world) and Amex debit card in China

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My collection
Bank of China non-CNY MasterCard debit card
Bank of China (Hongkong) platinum debit.
ZA bank (Hongkong) visa debit
Welab bank (Hongkong) numberless MasterCard debit :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:
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I quite like the fish card.

Once again, showing Britain and it’s ‘boring’ card designs up.

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More Chinese cards!!!
From GCB

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From CMB (collab with Starbucks)
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ICBC (in China we call it the Black Bak Choi)
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I’m not even living in the UK, just happen to find this interesting forum, If you guys like it, I could share you guys more special card designs from China.:smiling_face_with_sunglasses:( And practice my English writing)

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