Visit ING online and apply to open an Electric Orange Checking Account
Follow the directions to set up your account (with no fees and no minimums!)
Make a minimum of 3 Electric Orange debit card purchases or Person2Person Payments within 45 days of the account opening
$50 will be deposited in your account on day #50

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Making taxes easy sounds like a winner to me (who drags her feet on this, despite knowing a big refund is coming to help us zap a big chunk of debt!)  H&R Block at Home allows you to file for free:  free to prepare, free to print, free to e-file.  Includes step-by-step guidance for completing [...]

Saving in each basic shopping category is crucial when every dollar counts.  Here is the entire Top Ways to Save Series:

Top Five Ways to Save Money on Meat
Top 5 Ways to Save Money on Juice
Top 5 Ways to Save Money on Milk
Top 5 Ways to Save on Snack Foods
Top 5 Ways to Save on School [...]

We are always striving to grow our own food, live a little more off-grid, teach gratitude, life-skills, and all sorts of granola stuff like that.  It’s simply a by-product of leaving my career, producing more offspring, and having to shave more and more off the food budget to survive in this economy.  And so, it’s [...]

Cutting the grocery bill is getting to be a habit around here. Looking for ways to save an extra five or ten dollars each week is actually kind of fun, much like a game! Having a mindset towards needs, rather than desires, has been key throughout our budget-slashing adventure. My thought process [...]