Advice from the Palmer: Get ING Direct account or something similar.
Internet banking…the way of the future.
The way of the future towards easy savings.
Last month I got stung with a $1K+ bill for property taxes. The first of two that will come in the year.
Now, before I go on, I do understand that I can set up monthly payments for this type of thing, so thank you.
However, I thought to myself “Self, how can I go about this smartly? Perhaps I should pull out the old tricks of when I was my own small business working for the Gov’t.”
So, I now put some of my own money into a savings account every week at ING Direct. I can make any number of accounts for free – so I set up one up with a description of PROPERTY TAXES and set up an autowithdrawal on it. The beauty of this is that I’ll make some money off of it from the interest.
Alright, it’s not much interest. Maybe I’ll make $40-$60 over the year.
But that’s still some cash in my pocket rather than money given to the MAN every month.
Some may laugh at myself doing this, but I’m going to set up accounts for all the little things that I have to save up for over the year. The next one will be for my driver’s license renewal. I hate when the birthday shows up and you have to fork out some cash to pay for your license plate renewal. With this system, I’ll just have to go into the account, deplete it, and start all over again.
I encourage those who are wanting to save money for specific uses (perhaps a wedding? Or a new car? Or a new Apple laptop?) – set up some free accounts at ING Direct with the direct withdrawal feature! She’s a beaut!
Comments
17 responses to “Why I *heart* ING Direct”
another believer in ING here! They’re great.
Also if you refer a friend to them both you and your friend earn $13.
For those interested my REFERRAL CODE IS: 14449742S1
I’ve been thinking about ING… but have done 0 research, just heard word of mouth stuff
Uhmm…yeah. You know, if anything, I should be the one getting the referral. Way to steal the thunder.
Do admin’s have the privileges to edit another user’s message? 😉
Ryan! I am ashamed of you! Censorship??
tsk tsk tsk
that number again is: 14449742S1
🙂
You have permission to delete the message…
Then it is fairly easy to just post as Ferda, but you will not get her cool picture.
You might also want to change the time/date on your PC…. I am not sure if they get the time and date from the server or your PC.
Matt
omg, hilarious comment string.
Matt why must you butt into everything?
Wait a second…I didn’t even touch the Referral Code!
I “set up” an account a couple months ago but never sent them that cheque… Now I don’t know if my account is stale or what. I really need to call again.
Quick question re:auto withdrawal, can you withdraw from say, a BMO account?
Yes!
I appologize for butting into your PUBLIC post. *sheesh*
LOL
Matt I was just joking! No need to cry. Cheer up! Go open an ING account (remember it’s 14449742S1)
Dr. Mario-off. I’m so there. Then you guys should have a Mario Baseball-off.
Sorry Ferda, I don’t think I caught that number… what was it again?
😉
Ryan: bring it!
Kev dear that number again is 14449742S1
oh man. this comment string has had me laughing all day long. thanks guys
Well, the cheque to myself is in the mail!
Sorry Ferda, I couldn’t quote the number because I did actually set an account up a while ago (I just never activated it!).
I can’t wait to try ING myself!
Save, MY MONEY!