PS: Anyone interested in opening an ING savings account? If I give you some code, and you open the account with at least $250, you get $25 from ING, and I get $10

don't believe them! We tried this a while ago and my friend neither got her $25 nor me my $10.

don't believe them! We tried this a while ago and my friend neither got her $25 nor me my $10.

Man, that sucks! I've been perfectly satisfied with them as a place to keep my savings just out of my own reach, but that... well, sucks.

Huh. I did it with a link from our very own Nora, and did get the $25. Don't know if she got the $10.

amych, I like them for savings and actually for their paperless checking. But the whole recruit a friend didn't work out correctly. Not a bad thing to have savings.

My only ish? The 1 week hold time on deposits.

Yeah, they're great as a secondary account, but not so good as a primary with the access limits.

Maybe the bonus money comes after 90 days or something?

My only ish? The 1 week hold time on deposits.

Yeah, I can't see using them as my primary account for just that reason -- but the whole reason I like them is that the little delays it takes to process deposits or transfer money back and forth between them and my local bank makes me less likely to touch that account unless it's something I've thought through first. As I said, I'm very happy with them as a way to keep my money just slightly out of reach!

We are building an end of the bed chest so our arthritic cat can climb on the bed. When we had two that was two many things in bed - because every so often there would be a cat fight at 2am - which DH slept thru. I wouldn't want dogs on the bed, or even the couch - but I like big dogs.

DH is being productive, I am not

My plan is to get an ING account when our saving account hits the easy 3 months of savings - and then every time we hit that amount in reg saving to throw more in the ing account - with the plan to do the ladder CD thing they have. But who knows when and if this will work

My Annakitty sleeps with me, all snuggled up when it's cold, but right now when it's so hot she sleeps a way from my body but still where I can have a hand or arm next to her.

When she was young and I was in high school, I'd lie on my stomach to read and she'd curl up on my back and take a nap.

My parents always had cats that slept on the bed. Dad had two monster toms (Simon and Garfunkel) who would start off the night next to you and then in the morning I would wake up clinging to the edge and one of them would be sprawled out taking up most of the single bed.

Online banking rocks so hard. It makes it so easy to set up structures that suit your own idiosyncrasies.

For me, aside from the 401k out of each check, my mid month check feeds a certain amount into my ING account. Then when each paycheck hits, I take whatever amount was still left in my checking from the last check and slide that over into a different interest-bearing savings. I don't stress if I need to dip into that every so often, but mostly I don't, or it's not a lot of money. When that account hits a certain dollar amount, I transfer most of it into the ING savings.

Total trips to bank: 0
Total checks mailed: 0
Total fees paid: 0

For me, this is way more effective than any more normal savings method. I've learned that being flexible with myself short circuits the "but what if I need that money" panic that otherwise can stand in the way of putting anything into savings.

All of that is in flux right now with the condo purchase stuff, of course, so we'll have to see if I need to make adjustments.