A Winning Strategy for Saving: These Sites Make It a Game
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With interest rates so low these days, it’s hard to get motivated about putting money into a savings account. But it is important for us to save, and so services have popped up that use other methods to encourage us. Two in particular — SaveUp and SmartyPig — turn the act of saving or paying down debt into a game: Play enough, and you can get sweet deals on gift cards or win a new iPad.
The idea is simple. Register and track at least one account; deposits and debt payments are then used to…
A Winning Strategy for Saving: These Sites Make It a Game originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-09-20T11:53:00Z.
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