Dollar Tamer Helping you tame your money

You’ve likely seen their ads on television.  They are an online bank, and have both checking and savings accounts.  We have been using their Orange savings account for some time now and love it.  It is extremely useful and the options they have work very well with long-term budgeting (I’ll be posting on how to use ING Orange Savings for this).

They have a 3% APY savings account.  If …

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With the recent failure of Washington Mutual, a lot of people are worried about their money.  Should we be taking our money out of the bank so that it won’t disappear in a bank failure?

The answer is a very clear no.  Thanks to the FDIC (created in 1933), insured accounts are safe in the bank up to $100,000 ($200,000 if a joint account with your spouse). Generally, …

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