ING Direct: Win $10,000

Note:  This contest is open to canadian residents, not USA residents

ING Direct is at it again with a new contest that they have launched.  If you haven’t heard of ING Direct, they have been a leader in the online banking industry with very competitive money market rates.  Like their last contest a few months ago, where they wanted contestants to submit an essay, this contest is a little different, where they want you to submit a video via youtube.com.

The contest has a very simple concept in where you will submit ideas on how you go to certain extents on saving money.  Whether you save money cutting your own hair or making very inexpensive dinners, they want to know about it in a form of a video.  According to this website, your video can be in any creative way.  From a rap video to a simple poem, they will accept.

If you have the creativity and you know of funny ways to save money, this will be a very easy contest to enter.  ING Direct is going to take 10 finalists from youtube and from there; people will be able to vote.  The nice thing about this contest is that not a lot of people know about it and you have until January 18, 2007 to enter.  The thing is that as of November, not that many people have entered the contest.  We don’t know whether it’s the lack of advertising by ING direct or people just don’t care about the $10,000.

Some of the videos that were submitted entailed a lady cutting her own hair, a girl supplying her bathtub with shampoos from hotels she has attended, a man hanging up we paper towels on a clothes line to dry, and another guy filling up his own ketchup bottle with ketchup packets from fast food restaurants.

While the ideas are endless, we highly recommend that you at least try entering the contest.  It doesn’t take much to videotape yourself and put up a little skit.  ING Direct isn’t looking for anything fancy, just a simple money saving concept that’s unique and creative.

Some of the idea’s that we have come up with can be used by you might entail the following –

Going to those free credit cards signup booths using the t-shirts as your wardrobe.

Eating your lunch and dinner at the sample stations at your local grocery store.

Turning off all the vents in your house except the one you’re in

Feel free to take some of our ideas.  If you decide you want to use one, let us know by dropping us an e-mail!

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