Beating Broke Rule: Spend your Bonuses wisely. Every year, many of us are lucky enough to receive some sort of bonus from our employer.  (If you’re self employed, that’s bonus enough. )  And when we do, the inevitable question arises.  What do I do with the money?  And then, how to budget for it? The [...]

Yay!  The yearly performance bonus that my company gives out is coming on Monday! The bonus is based on a set of goals for the company.  If the company reaches all of the goals, then we get 100% of the bonus.  Each goal is set a little differently, so one might only count for 10% [...]

ING Direct is pushing their Electric Orange Checking Accounts this month and you could be the recipient of a nice $20 bonus.  And it’s pretty simple to do too! If you have an Electric Orange checking account, you’re already enrolled.  You then only need to use your EO debit card to make at least 5 [...]