Mint.com and RBC — A white person problem
Mint.com stopped syncing with RBC (my bank) around two weeks ago. I know! But hold on, it gets better.
First, I never realized how much I relied on Mint. I do not spend a damn cent without Mint’s say-so.
After a couple weeks, I was seriously contemplating switching banks, thinking RBC might be trying to block Mint. Then they tweeted this: http://twitter.com/#!/RBC/status/113993902280810497
Yippie, back to thinking about ice cream sandwiches. Thinking. Because I had no idea if could afford to buy snacks this month.
Still, none of this is my point. Here’s my point: I’ve been with RBC since I was 14. That’s 14 years. Literally half of my life. And not once in our time together have they done anything to make me care if I should bank with them. I just do. Mostly because I like their colours.
Contrast that with Mint, a service that only has one purpose: making me more financially responsible. They’re actually providing something (for free) that’s in my interest and not their own. Beyond that though, it’s such a needed tool. I don’t think there should be anyone in the world who doesn’t use it. No matter how good my spreadsheets were before (and boy did I have spreadsheets), Mint has bettered my life and you’ll have to claw it out of my cold dead hands.
Now, why can’t we have banks that make us feel that way?
