Comments | kettunainen: money makes the world go 'round...

kettunainen

money makes the world go 'round...

Sep 12, 2006 18:58

I get paid tomorrow. Got my paystub today and found that I'm getting paid for one more week than I thought. I get 4 weeks' worth of pay all at once. This... is mind boggling for me. I don't know what to do with it all. Some of it is already spoken for, as I promised misslynx a Treo if she can convince the Telus people to give her the $100 deal they ( Read more... )

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ex_afflicti September 12 2006, 23:12:53 UTC

ING is not bad. The lack of service fees is refreshing. Even the basic savings accounts beats the tar out of regular bank SA's.

Call them up, they'll send you a nice kit, and it's pretty easy from there. And you can just get your payroll people to toss 'x' amount per cheque into that one, and the balance into your regular chequing account.

ex_afflicti September 12 2006, 23:13:23 UTC

P.S. Happy belated. I'm still upset I wasn't able to come by, but I hope you had a wonderful time.

beeblefish September 13 2006, 03:31:00 UTC

I was looking at pdas at the Telus store the other day. Apparentlym, they are really pushing the data packages, so you could prolly convince them to give you the deal. Also, you may want to consider a Blackberry.. their deal used to be you had to take at least and 80/month package to get the discounted Blackberries.. but they dropped that to 45. Finally, watch those data packages.. the extra MB fee for some of their packages is 30 bucks PER EXTRA MB over they really small (.5 MB and up) limit.

misslynx September 13 2006, 14:41:38 UTC

I'm not too worried about the data charges, as I don't really intend to use it for e-mail or web surfing. I have a computer for that. :-) I mainly just want it to be a phone + organizer, so that all my contacts, calendar, things to do, etc. are in one place (and can be synced with my computer ( ... )