Have you been praying for a miracle or wanted to crawl under a rock at the thought of your holiday credit card bills piling up? I just found a website that wants to change that. This is your chance to purge your shopping demons by confessing your holiday excesses to the world. Make it funny, make it sad, make it pathetic–you can even make it bad. Tell the world. Mint will pay the winning contestants’ credit card bills as of December 31.
While checking out mint.com today, I found a pre-announcement for its blog readers. So I wanted to share it with you ASAP. Mint wants you to submit your own story, in video or text, about your 2007 holiday shopping experiences. The best video and text submissions will each win up to $5,000 (and some free credit counseling). You can thank Aaron Patzer, founder and CEO of Mint, for this brilliant contest, which begins Thursday, January 31, at midnight, Eastern Standard Time. March 15th is the deadline for submitting your story.
Even if you aren’t interested in the contest, I urge you to check out the Mint website. It won’t cost you a cent, and it likely will save you money. It doesn’t matter whether you love or hate dealing with money matters. This site is for anyone wanting or needing to manage funds more effectively.
How Mint.com Works
- Mint.com is designed to make managing personal finances effortless.
- It’s free.
- It takes less than five minutes to get started/
- Users register anonymously using only a valid e-mail address, and then securely connect to their online bank, credit union and credit card accounts.
- Mint.com does the rest; users never need to import or sync any data. Mint.com securely downloads transaction data from more than 3,500 financial institutions on a daily basis.
- It applies patent-pending technology and proprietary algorithms to compile and categorize transactions, providing users with a unified view of all account activity with high degree of accuracy and detail in a single, easy-to-understand interface
- An advanced alerting system proactively lets users know about unusual or potentially suspicious activity, low balances, bank fees and charges, and upcoming bills.
- Beyond showing where your money goes, Mint.com also provides specific, individualized suggestions that can save you money.
Safety and Security
Mint provides the same level of online data security as top U.S. banks through a partnership with Yodlee, which has provided online banking services to major financial institutions for nearly 10 years. Mint’s privacy and security policies and systems have been certified by Hackersafe, RSA, TRUSTe and VeriSign. Mint never asks for a personal identity, requiring only a valid e-mail address.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Well, this contest is not really of a great help to me since I don’t live anywhere near the United States. But what the title says is true. I’m thinking about checking for essay-writing contests here and there. I don’t have debts to pay but I’m saving up for something big. A lot of people don’t realize that such contests exist and so miss out on a chance to earn themselves money. Of course, there’s no guarantee of winning every time but it does help me improve on my other source of wealth– my writing skills.