Feeding Our Collective (and Neglected) Pig

He may be a little creepy, but he's also pretty hungry.

Check out the newly-launched www.feedthepig.org for excellent tip, quizzes, and interactive tools to help you put a little extra in your piggy bank every month. I'm especially fond of the "Me Save?" feature, which will show you what you can save month to month by cutting back on little things, as well as what that money would look like in five years if you put it into a savings account. As I suspected, if the money I spent on American Spirit Light Menthols were to go into my ING account instead of to the market downstairs, I'd have about $3700 to spend on something nice. Like retirement. (Thanks to those who posted stories about today being the Great American Smokeout, for extra incentive to cut back.)

In the interest of full disclosure, my employer helped with some of the website development that helped get the site up, though I wasn't involved in the project. I just started my pig-feeding program today, and because the program's interactive, I can track how I'm doing and make adjustments. I'm eager to see how it goes, and I encourage you to take a look and see what you think.