Posts Tagged ‘Savings’

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
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Want to be a financial “Cinderella”? Forget the glass slipper.

In his recent blog post, Frugal Dad examines the “Cinderella team” label that so often pops up during March Madness, referring to lesser-seeded teams that upset the big shots. (Sorry, Kansas.) He debunks the theory that these teams
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Ready for Spring Break? Watch out for Savers gone wild!

Woot! Woot! Spring Break Twenty Ten’s almost in full frenzy. Beach parties! All-nighters! Body shots! Okay, okay, so maybe that’s just for the crazy college coed headed to Cancun. For the rest of us, Spring Break involves a lot
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Squirrel it away. You’d be nuts not to.

So goes one of our favorite ING DIRECT headlines—and also the subject of this recent Kiplinger’s Personal Finance article . The gist: Squirrels know that they need to store up acorns for the winter and early spring, so instead of nibbling
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Gourmet or novice, cook with only the freshest savings ingredients.

A few glorious years ago, back when I was still in college, Thursday Night was Nacho Night: A cheese-and-jalapeño heavy evening that stained our fingers and left us $20+ poorer going into the weekend. It was
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We can’t make memories, but we can help you save for them.

Remember a while back we shared a cool video about the things in life that matter most? It nicely puts into pictures, words and music how we feel about the important stuff. Like making memories. Spending time
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Which nickname is your fave? Vote here.

What do you save for? Vacation? Check — that’s the number one most common nickname for an Orange Savings Account. Emergencies? You bet: “Emergency Fund” is the second most popular nickname. Then there’s “House” and “Taxes,” followed by that
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5 ways to heart Valentine’s Day on a budget.

We’ll stop short of saying Valentine’s Day is a made-up holiday, invented by some greedy greeting card salesman to… Oh well, maybe it is a little manufactured, but heck, it’s one of our favorite holidays, too. It’s also a
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