ING Referrals

As a proud ING Direct account holder, I offer you a few account referrals!

The way these work is as follows:

I supply you with the link, and you click on it. When you open an account with at least $250, you receive a $25 bonus for signing up, and I receive $10 for the referral.

If you would like to open an ING Direct Savings or Electric Orange checking account and receive the bonus, please comment with your email and I will send you a referral.

We win all around. Not to mention that ING Direct is a great online bank with a very good interest rate (3.o% currently). The customer service is great and the ease of use and security features make me feel comfortable with doing my banking with them.

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First Post

This is my first post as a "personal finance blogger"! Okay, so really I'm just reviewing and recapping my daily struggles as a twenty-something trying to balance saving with having a life. It's not as easy as I think it should be!

Frugal Dad's blog How To Become a Millionaire in 10 Years got me thinking. That's a lot of money you'd have to save to become a millionaire. Of course, 10 years is a short period of time. I'm not that ambitious! Twenty years (or even thirty!) would be a better estimate for me.

So what to do? Well, I certainly cannot put $996 per week into a high-yield investment. It is simply not possible at this time. I can't even do $996 per month! What I can do, and what I have been doing, is putting a few hundred dollars per month into my ING Direct high-yield savings account.

First step accomplished.