Oprah's Debt show today...get $100
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| Thu, 01-08-2009 - 8:58am |
Oprah is doing her Bestlife week this week and today is the episode on Debt and money. I really love Oprah and I really love Suze Orman, so when they get together, I always watch. But today I can't watch and I'm just heartbroken. I have piano lessons on 4 of the 5 days Oprah is on so I rarely get to watch Oprah and since I'm trying to save money every way I can, of course I don't have cable or DVR so I can't record it for later. But I just checked her website and I wanted to post that today they are going to be running a special. If you sign up for a 'Save yourself' Ameritrade Savings account and you deposit $100 dollars each month for 12 months, Ameritrade will give you $100 dollars.
Here's the link: http://saveyourself.suzeorman.com/aboutplan/page1.html I hope the link works. I'm thinking about doing it, but I honestly don't know if I can save $100 dollars a month. I save 40-50 dollars now, I guess that's only $50 dollars more. $100 free dollars is a lot of moolah! And if anything super interesting is said and someone watches it, post the details for me.

Oh good!
Teresa
http://www.affordingpickles.blogspot.com
When I didn't have cable I got a friend at work to record one show a week for me.
If you save $40-50 a month now, is that extra $50-60 (to make up the $100 you'd have to save for this deal) already going to debt payment? If it is, you may be better to leave it at that, keep paying the extra to debt instead of saving it. That assumes you have that $$. If you have that money as part of your cash flow and it's just leaking away through cracks, then why don't you challenge yourself to save $100 a month? It would be really good motivation to enforce savings and after a year you'd feel good about the accumulated amount and you'd probably have formed that habit of savings and keep doing it.
Oh, I don't know what kind of account it is you have to use? Is it just a savings account where your money is guaranteed? I wouldn't be investing in funds right now unless you are comfortable with never seeing that money again. Just my thoughts.
If you want I have still got the copy of Women and Money by Suzi they gave away a year ago I could send you the file.
It is a pretty basic book.
Mary Ann
There is something wrong with my settings on here and I can't personal emails anymore Becky and I worked on it all yesterday I even got a new name and the email still doesn't work
But here is my personal account kimbler@bellsouth.net.
The book is around 250 pages if you print the whole file out.
This is something that Suze was promoting in Women and Money.
As another poster indicated, this is the same thing Suze was promoting in her Women and Money book.