ING Direct Financial Independence Days Sale – 2011

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ING DIRECT is at it again! To help celebrate our country’s independence, ING DIRECT is offering up some juicy deals to help you achieve financial independence.  As our country’s independence was declared in 1776, you’ll find many of the offers play of the ’76 theme.

Hurry up and check out the offers as they as are only around July 1st through July 2nd.

Here are the ING DIRECT Financial Independence Days Offers:

Liberate from Checking Fees

Customers who open up a new Electric Orange online checking account can receive the traditional $50 opening bonus.  To get the bonus, the new customer just needs to make three purchases with their new debit card (or Person2Person payments) within 45 days of opening the account.  The customer will then see the funds about 50 days after the account is opened.  Then there’s an independence bonus! If you then set up and make two direct deposits of at least $250 you can receive a further bonus of $76 (Get it? $76 as in 1776?) for a total bonus of $126.

We opened up an Electric Orange account.  It’s a nice way to get quicker access to the money in your savings (after a transfer online) and I’ve found that the ATM locations are way more abundant than the brick-and-mortar bank I have checking with.  Electric Orange also offers up interest earnings for the money you keep in checking!  Being able to send paper checks via Electric Orange even helped us when we ran out of traditional checks.

You can open up an Electric Orange Account here.

Investing for Financial Freedom

If you open up a new ShareBuilder investing account you will get a $76 account bonus after making one transaction.  ShareBuilder offers over 10,000 stocks, funds, and ETF’s.  ShareBuilder recently re-designed their site to make investing easier.

I do my non-retirement account investing through ShareBuilder (by that I mean non-IRA).  I love that I can easily transfer funds between my ING Direct savings and ShareBuilder accounts.  Also, ShareBuilder allows you to make partial purchases of shares.  Back when even B shares of Berkshire Hathaway were thousands of dollars, I was able to invest in partial shares and claim I was investing along with one of the richest men in the world!

You can open up a ShareBuilder investing account here.

Spreading the Wealth of Savings

The fun isn’t only for new customers.  If you already have an ING Direct savings or an Electric Orange checking account you can get up to a $76 bonus for referring two friends to Orange Savings on July 1st and 2nd.  Your friend has to open an account with the referral in the month of July for you to qualify for the bonus (and deposit at least $250 into the account).  Your first two friends benefit too with a $25 bonus.  After the first two friends you will earn the standard $10 referral.

I already told you about my Electric Orange account.  Check out the many reasons I love ING Direct savings.

Bargain Hunt at ING DIRECT

ING DIRECT has an online shopping store.  It has everything from books on personal finance to branded bikes and backpacks.  There’s some interesting stuff there.  Well, shop there during this sale and you get a 17.76% discount on everything.  Make srue you use the code: 1776 at checkout.

Life, Liberty and Financial Long-Term Security

New and existing customers who open up a FDIC-insured Savings IRA with at least $1,000 will be eligible to receive a $76 bonus to help you get one step closer to your retirement goals.  The bonus will be considered a contribution and count towards your yearly contribution limit.

The Financial Independence Days offers are available from 12 AM July 1st to 11:59 PM July 2nd.  Check out the ING Independence Sale site for the exact details of the offers (www.ingdirect.com/independence).

Will you be getting in on ING DIRECT’s Financial Independence Day Sales?

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