I have said it before, but I love ING Direct and I have the accounts to prove it. I have an Electric Orange Checking Account, ING Direct Savings, and an Orange Mortgage all through ING. Here are 5 reasons I like their products: Their web interface is a joy to use and they are constantly improving it Customer service has been great All the accounts play nicely and instantly together Very good interest on savings and checking balances Simple and straightforward. ING doesn’t like to play games with fees or complexity. My System Both paychecks are direct deposited into our [...]
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The obvious answer is…….Yes! The not so obvious answer is that it might cost me well over $300 dollars this year. First, the software can usually be purchased for next to nothing after rebates or through other programs. SlickDeals is a great way to scour the net for a deal on the software you want. The other factor to take into account is your time and stress in having to deal with taxes yourself. The time and stress will be extremely personal decisions that we each must measure for ourselves. The only thing I will say is that the software [...]
Read MoreRemember the second round of contests I posted last week in the learning from others post. Well, yours truly, won a copy of Quicken Deluxe 2007. Shelley Elmblad @ The Personal Budgeting section of Suite 101 sent me the good news yesterday. I quickly responded with my address, and the software will ship tomorrow. Perfect, just as I was having some troubles with Microsoft Money I will get to try out its main competitor. Hopefully the Money import feature works well! Who says they never win anything? A couple of minutes returned a $39.99 piece of software. Did any other [...]
Read MoreI cleared a hurdle I had been putting off for about three weeks now; I spent about two hours tonight bringing my Microsoft Money records back up to date. It was two hours I didn’t have, but two hours that were sorely needed. In mid July Microsoft decided that their Money servers need a complete overhaul. Since that time I haven’t been able to download my transactions for my ING Electric Orange checking, savings, or my one credit card. With the July Cash Spending Experiment in full swing, I wasn’t too worried about it since my normal way of operating [...]
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