Savings+are+Fun+Ideas


 * Savings Points**

Savers just get interest on their money, Kind of boring. Spice it up by offering savings points that can be redeemed and traded

Can be redeemed for
 * Billboard message
 * Name a star after a person you like
 * Road/Intersection named after you for a day (on Google Maps)
 * A tree is named after you for a month.

You can trade it for
 * Carbon offsets
 * Virtual goods on IMVU, Zynga etc...
 * Facebook points
 * Mobile phone credits i.e talk time

We have Mothers Day and Fathers Day and Valentine's Day. How about a World Saver's day Savings Day already exists on Oct 31 every year. People forget it because it coincides with Halloween so the idea can be morphed into popularising Savings Day rather than create a new Savings Day
 * Savings Day**
 * A day you don't spend money, you buy everything using barter :).
 * Everytime you swipe a credit card you get virtual goods instead of real ones. :) Also, the money vanishes into a secret vault. You can't touch it for a year.
 * Other Ideas..

The store aisles are full of gift cards for expensive coffee(Starbucks), restaurants and other items you don't really need. This holiday season we introduce the "Savings Gift Card". The way it works is This one lends itself well to a movie, something like like a ad film for the new savings cards.
 * Savings Card**
 * You present a Savings gift card to someone for the holidays $25 denomination to anything.
 * If the person that receives the card puts in $25 into a 401k or a Savings account(not to be touched for a year) they get to encash your gift card.
 * Another option could be if they reduce their spending from last year by a certain amount they get to encash the card.
 * The card could be encashed for money or for some other gifts like the ones mentioned in Idea 1.

The prius has a meter for calculating how much gas you save. Every person gets a Saver Score based on how they are doing.
 * Savings Meter**


 * Your facebook page has your Saver Score (in graphical form).
 * Savings Tree/Pet.