Random Ruminations of My Mind

I wonder if that’s really true. But let’s just think about it for a second. Something that is free, usually has very little monetary value associated with it because of the fact that it is free. But, at the same time, it has the power to have a lot of sentimental value. Let’s take a gift as an example. You buy yourself something compared to someone buying something for you as a gift. Which would you cherish more? The latter I’d hope. Why? Probably because its not only the gift that comes your way, but the thought of buying that gift comes along for the ride. And of course its free.

As an aside, I went into a TD bank branch recently in order to close my account at RBC and open one up at TD. I read somewhere exactly how to get a free iPod nano in doing so. The way it works is, you have to close an account at some other bank, and open one up at TD. You also need to setup a Direct Deposit or 2 Pre-authorized payments for that account. This will only get you an iPod Shuffle however. To get the nano, you have to be approved for a TD Visa Gold credit card. Of course, this card comes with a heft annual fee, $99 to be exact. To have that fee waived, you have to make sure that the account you opened was a Select Service account. Funny thing is, this type of account itself has a monthly fee of $24.95. BUT, and there’s always a but, in order to waive this fee, all you need to do is keep a minimum balance of $5000. Do everything I described above and you’ll be the proud new owner of a 1GB iPOD Nano!!!

So it really is true, that the best things in life are FREE, in more ways than one

Then again, we’ve all heard the saying, ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’.  A topic to be discussed at some other time in the near future.