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There is a great bonus at ING Direct where you can earn $25 for opening up a new ING Orange Savings account with at least $250. To get that bonus, you need to use someone’s referring link.
EDIT: Thanks! I have enough links for right now. I will be updating this post as I work through the links so you can keep an eye on it to know when I’ll be asking for more. 
I have been out of my links for a while, so I host ING Orange Savings referral links for others on my referral page. Every now and then I ask for more referrals on here so I can keep up the supply. The last time I did it was in April.
Very important - please do not send me ING links now and do not post them in the comments.
If you are interesting in having me host some ING links for you, please leave a comment below saying “I’m interested”. Once I get a good list going, I will close off this post to new comments and that will be all until next time when I need more.
As I need to refill my links, I will go through the comments on this post and will contact you when it is your turn (I’ve been asking for three links). I will note my progress along the way so you will know when your turn is approaching in case you want to keep track, or if you are curious when I will be asking for more again.
For the specifics here, the owners of the links receive $10 from ING when their link is used and I do not receive any of that. I do this to give back since I have been fortunate to have mine used thanks to my blog. I cannot guarantee that your link will be used before it expires and I cannot guarantee that your link will be used correctly. I am agreeing to post your link on my referrals page and while I hope someone uses them correctly so you earn the bonus - I cannot guarantee it.
As a reminder, please do not post referral links in the comments! I will contact you when it is your turn to send me some.
Please just leave a comment saying you are interested. If for some reason you submit a comment and don’t see it right away - please contact me and I’ll fish it out of my spam filter (it gets a bit hungry sometimes).
Thanks!
Some of you have commented that you haven’t received your stimulus payment yet, even though you should have. I just saw this news clip and thought I would pass it on:
According to ABC News, about 15,000 stimulus payments were routed into the incorrect bank account due to a computer error. It didn’t give more detail than that.
If you should have received your payment but didn’t, there is a hotline number to call at the bottom of the stimulus payment info page at the IRS website.
EDIT (11:14 p.m.): Here’s a link to a Yahoo story that claims that the number is 1,500. It also notes that some households did not receive the $300 for a child refund.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I logged into my Virtual Bank account today. My money is sitting there at 1.75% interest. What happened to the good ole days of 4%+ interest for online savings accounts?
It looks like ING Direct is still at 3% but I have to wonder for how long. Right now we don’t have that much money saved (just what you see to the right under savings account) but I still want to maximize what little we do earn.
A while ago I did move some of our money out of Virtual Bank and into ING. I guess I will go ahead and move a little bit more out of it, but not all of it. Sometimes I get uncomfortable having all of our eggs in one basket.
As a note, ING still has a great bonus going on where you can earn $25 if you open up a new savings account with at least $250. For more info, you can check out my page with ING Orange savings account referral links. Right now I am hosting some referrals for Phil.
I received some good news this morning when I checked the IRS Where’s My Stimulus Payment site. Our payment is scheduled for Friday.
Of course, just because it is scheduled that doesn’t mean we will get it. But I can’t help but be excited. We may be under the $10K mark with our credit card debt in less than a week!
Sometimes it seems like it is taking forever to pay off our cards. But these little milestones really help to keep me going. Every milestone we hit gives me a little more “oomph” to keep attacking our debt.
For some time now, I have been hearing about Revolution Money Exchange. The premise of this company is very similar to PayPal. It’s a way to send and receive money through the internet by only using an email address. Best of all…there are no fees!
I’m not one to try things out first. I tend to sit and observe and then perhaps give something a try. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that they are giving out $25 bonuses right now until May 15th so I kept a very close eye on things 
I finally felt good enough about the company and their reputation, so I signed up.
Signing up was easy and setting up my web account took less than two minutes. Right away, there was a $25 deposit into my account. In order to access that money, I had to set-up account information and had to give my social security number. That was the big reason why I was sitting back and watching this one.
In full disclosure, I make $10 each time someone signs up using my link. I have my Revolution Money Exchange account tied to one of my savings accounts so any money earned from this will go directly towards our emergency fund. Thank you in advance to anyone who signs up using my link!
I can tell by the visitors stopping by via Google that many people are wondering about the stimulus payments. We didn’t get ours yet, but then again we weren’t supposed to be in this first round anyways. Soon enough, it will come.
Anyways, I found a section on the IRS website where you can “Get the amount and date of your Economic Stimulus Payment now!”:
Big note on this, from the site (I added emphasis):
We recommend checking the Payment Schedule prior to using this application since your payment information will not be available on this tool until the time that your payment is scheduled.
So, if you are scheduled to receive your payment via direct deposit next week, you probably won’t show up in their system until next week.
My stimulus payment hasn’t hit the bank yet (I checked about five times today!). Last night, I caught a news clip on a Canadian channel that mentioned a possible second stimulus payment. That’s the first time I’ve heard of that. So I went digging to find out more.
From the BaltimoreSun.com (April 29,2008):
Democrats in Congress have said that the tax rebates aren’t big enough and have been pushing for a second stimulus package.
The package that they have been pushing may be the one referred to here at Boston.com (April 9, 2008):
Hoping to build on a $168-billion economic stimulus bill already enacted, Hoyer said new legislation would focus on broadening food stamps for the poor, extending jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and investing in construction and other public works projects to create domestic jobs.
The legislation would be in addition to a series of steps Congress wants to take to shore up the U.S. housing industry, which is plagued by foreclosures that threaten to undercut the global economy.
That’s all I could find at the moment. It looks like there may be discussion about it but nothing more than that. Have any of you heard anything more about a possible second stimulus check?
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Credit Card Debt
- Starting = $37,614
- Paid Off = $29,141
- Current = $8,473
- $25 ING Savings Bonus
Savings Account
- Current = $3,750
