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Meet Alison, 30, from Los Angeles, CA: Part 2
This is Alison's second post in our Customer Blogger series. Read her first post here. 
Bio: [Editor's note: Alison is an ING DIRECT Associate.] I’m originally from the Midwest, the product of middle class parents who came from lower middle class families. They taught me about money but I thought I knew better and spent more than I made, getting into debt. This January, my husband lost his job. I had just crafted a new savings plan using my MANY savings accounts at ING to try to combat my debt. Now the hubby and I are scrambling to find enough to pay the essentials, let alone save for future needs. Despite all the trials, I am happy and I am deeply in love. With the help of a plan, feeling (sort of) footloose & fancy free. What a month! A lot has happened since we last met here. Bear is still unemployed but is a few steps closer to starting school. We’ve had a few annual expenses come due. A family emergency has shaken things up a bit. I started a
Bio: [Editor's note: Alison is an ING DIRECT Associate.] I’m originally from the Midwest, the product of middle class parents who came from lower middle class families. They taught me about money but I thought I knew better and spent more than I made, getting into debt. This January, my husband lost his job. I had just crafted a new savings plan using my MANY savings accounts at ING to try to combat my debt. Now the hubby and I are scrambling to find enough to pay the essentials, let alone save for future needs. Despite all the trials, I am happy and I am deeply in love. With the help of a plan, feeling (sort of) footloose & fancy free. What a month! A lot has happened since we last met here. Bear is still unemployed but is a few steps closer to starting school. We’ve had a few annual expenses come due. A family emergency has shaken things up a bit. I started a ...more»
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What’s the word, Saver? Tell us and you could win $200.
Welcome to our first-ever Neologism contest. What’s a neologism? It's a newly-coined word or expression. And since we like words almost as much as we like saving, we’re asking readers to invent a word or expression that fits the following: When you slip on a pair of jeans that you haven’t worn in a while and discover a $20 bill crumpled inside the back pocket, that money is called ________. Well? Surely there should be a word for that. What should it be? You tell us.
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Meet Alicia, 26, from Starkville, MS
This is Alicia's first post in our Customer Blogger series. Over the upcoming months, we'll be following Matt, Alicia, Nancy, T.J., Susan and Alison on their savings adventures. 
Alicia Starkville, MS Age 26 Bio: I'm a college graduate with no debt! I took an office job to pay off my student loans and have been slowly saving for no particular goal other than to have a savings. My husband is pursuing a PhD, so as of right now I am the breadwinner, and English majors were never meant to be breadwinners. Our income and savings while meager allows some travel and indulgences such as our two pound puppies and two indoor rabbits. I live in rural Mississippi, and I like to be anywhere else. The Mis(sissippi) Adventures of a Born Again Saver: Flashback: I am 8. My brother is 16. I have saved $81 over a year from sweeping the house, washing the bathroom walls, scrubbing love bugs from the mini-van bumper, vacuuming my dad's cigarette ashes from the Dodge, and raking and
Alicia Starkville, MS Age 26 Bio: I'm a college graduate with no debt! I took an office job to pay off my student loans and have been slowly saving for no particular goal other than to have a savings. My husband is pursuing a PhD, so as of right now I am the breadwinner, and English majors were never meant to be breadwinners. Our income and savings while meager allows some travel and indulgences such as our two pound puppies and two indoor rabbits. I live in rural Mississippi, and I like to be anywhere else. The Mis(sissippi) Adventures of a Born Again Saver: Flashback: I am 8. My brother is 16. I have saved $81 over a year from sweeping the house, washing the bathroom walls, scrubbing love bugs from the mini-van bumper, vacuuming my dad's cigarette ashes from the Dodge, and raking and ...more»
Bargaineering Guest Post: Why You Should Set Savings Goals
"If one moves confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." — Henry David Thoreau We're all saving for something, right? Whether it's a comfortable retirement, your first home, your next home, your first car, or ...more»
Earth Day Survey: Savers wear green on sleeves year-round.
Happy Earth Day 2010, Savers. It’s kind of neat when you stop to think how much saving money and saving the earth have in common. Protecting what’s yours, recycling and reusing, planting financial seeds, watching them grow and so forth… you get the idea. We've always thought that Savers love living green as much as they love saving it. And now we have a little earthy
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Keeping checking fees in check: The Feds are regulating them. So can you.
Ugh, fees. They’re never pleasant, are they? Not at the library, when you find out that copy of “The Total Money Makeover” is $3 overdue. (Oh, the irony.) Not at your favorite concert ticket sales website, or in your cable bill, or at the airport, when you’re suddenly paying to check your luggage. And fees certainly aren’t a welcome
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A little freaked out by the “R” word? So are other Americans we asked.
When we say “retirement,” does it make you squeal with excitement? Squirm in discomfort? Spit in disgust? Chances are, like many Americans, your thoughts (and actual actions) about retirement lie somewhere in the middle. Let’s face it: Talk of retirement goals, magic numbers and automatic contributions tends to freak people out a little. They’re concerned, confused and often left
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Meet Matt, 34, from Chicago, IL
This is Matt's first post in our Customer Blogger series. Over the upcoming months, we'll be following Matt, Alicia, Nancy, T.J., Susan and Alison on their savings adventures. 
Matt Chicago, IL Age 34 Bio: Youngish, vegetarian, married father of two. Avid gardener and Mr. Handyman. My wife and I don't make a ton of money, but we want to hold on to as much as we can, so we don't have to struggle like our parents did. I've got two kids. Daughters. And they're awesome. I've never felt such elation, and such fear, both times I went to the hospital to meet each of them for the first time. They are without a doubt the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.
Matt Chicago, IL Age 34 Bio: Youngish, vegetarian, married father of two. Avid gardener and Mr. Handyman. My wife and I don't make a ton of money, but we want to hold on to as much as we can, so we don't have to struggle like our parents did. I've got two kids. Daughters. And they're awesome. I've never felt such elation, and such fear, both times I went to the hospital to meet each of them for the first time. They are without a doubt the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. ...more»
We’re looking for a few good Savers (and writers). Share your stories and we’ll share some savings.
Yeah, we’re lookin’ at you. It’s 2010, the year of the Saver (or so it should be, anyway), the YOU year. So, we want your story. We’re looking for
Share your savings account nickname, Snookums. It’s contest time.
If you were one of those kids tagged with the moniker “Reds,” “Super Squirrel,” or “Mr. Peanut,” then you know just how embarrassing and annoying nicknames can be. (We
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Is that a bank branch in your pocket?
Have you had the chance to download the Official App of Savers? Yep, that’s ING DIRECT’s full-featured mobile application for smart phones—helping Savers to be more nimble and efficient. With mobile banking, your finances are accessible anytime, anywhere. Frankly, we can’t think of anything more financially liberating than being untethered from the desktop, laptop or bank branch line. This means you can do stuff like check balances while you’re waiting in line at the DMV, pay your cable bill during a particularly boring office meeting or send a quick pay-back to your pal for covering dinner—while still at the restaurant. To celebrate this banking liberation, we have this cool contest called “Bank From Any Corner.” So make sure to grab the app from the iTunes app store or BlackBerry App World, find
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