I’m super excited today because I am FINALLY able to give away a couple of invites to ImpulseSave!! You might remember that I entered the ImpulseSave Turkey Talks contest back in November and missed being one of their guest bloggers by just 3 votes. Huge bummer!! But it was a lot of fun participating and shortly after that I got one of the beta invites to ImpulseSave. I now have 2 sneak peek invites to give away!! Keep reading to enter.
What is ImpulseSave?
Before we get to the giveaway, let me tell you a little about ImpulseSave. From the ImpulseSave website:
Saving is painful. There’s no other way to say it. It’s unforgiving when we make mistakes. It betrays us, seducing us into actually spending more money (60% off gets me every time). It tells us we’re financially fat, demands that we diet and does nothing to help. It selfishly recommends that we give up things we really want while doing absolutely nothing to reward us for those sacrifices. (Sounds like an unhealthy relationship doesn’t it!) Which brings us to the question: Why do people save?
Well, most of us don’t.
53% of Americans won’t have enough to retire.
64% of Americans don’t have even $1,000 in their savings account.
Only 40% of Americans actually sit down with a budget and allocate savings.
That’s not so good!
So what do most authorities recommend? To go on a financial diet! But for all the reasons mentioned (and many others) diets are tough and most often fail. A doctor wouldn’t continue precrescribing the same medicine if year after year the patients condition didn’t change, so why are the financial Docs still writing that same prescription? Because until now, there weren’t any other options.
The financial gurus are certainly right in one sense; you do need to eat your vegetables, but boiling it to rubber isn’t going to motivate anyone. Instead, why not add a little chocolate and make muffins!
That’s where we come in. We’re not just about making saving money easier through technology; in fact, we’re not really about saving money at all – at least not in the way we’re all used to using that word. We’ve invented a new way to get you where you’re going financialy and it’s called ImpulseSaving™
By giving you a new set of actionable options, we’re allowing you to take “transACTION” towards the things you care about – and have fun doing it. ImpulseSaving is not about how much money you have in your piggy bank. Yawn. And it’s not a new way to stare at your bleak financial picture. Yikes. It’s, about taking control; taking action. It’s about getting what you want and deserve. Get the picture? Money wasn’t meant to sit still. Like knowledge, money only has power when you apply it. So the question is, where will you put it to work?
How to ImpulseSave
Like I mentioned at the beginning of the post, I got a beta invite to try out ImpulseSave. I’ve been using ImpulseSave for a few months now as a way to save for the deck I want to put on my house. It’s simple to use, I created a new bank account through ImpulseSave and then linked that bank account to my PerkStreet checking account. I set up my regular weekly saves through ImpulseSave but when I’m tempted to buy something I don’t really need, I now save it instead through ImpulseSave!
Here’s an example. The other day I really was craving an extra value meal from McD’s. I know bad, right? Well instead of going to McD, I ImpulseSave’d the $7 I would have spent there via text and viola’! I’m now saving impulseively rather than spending.
This really is a new concept and one that is actually a little tough to explain until you actually do it. I really think you guys are gonna love it so why not give it a shot and enter the giveaway!
The Giveaway
ImpulseSave has given me 2 invites to giveaway to two lucky readers to start ImpulseSaving!! There are several ways to enter so make sure you do them all for more chances to win!
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