One Money Design

This week I received an email announcing Ally Bank Online Savings Account has been rated “Best Online Savings Account” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance for 2009.

The ranking recognizes the best bank accounts that “combine higher yields and convenience.”  The email announcement said Kiplinger chose Ally Bank Online Savings Account because it requires “no minimum to open an account, no monthly fees and no minimum balance.”

This is great news for both of us!  Why?  I currently have my freedom savings account with Ally, so I’m pleased they are well respected and I can continue to feel comfortable in recommending them to you.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Ally Bank Online Savings Account, you can read my review which includes a video.

Personal Finance Links

I hope you’ll take a few minutes out of your day to explore these posts I found interesting and helpful.

• Personal Finance Journey: How to get overdraft fees refunded provides good coverage on the topic and steps to get them refunded.
• PT Money: Use Google Docs to save big and make life easy provides some good tips for using Google Docs for your word processing program. MS office can be expensive.  Do you really need it?  As this article suggests, most of the work we do in MS office can easily be done with Google Docs.
• Redeeming Riches: Money lessons from a fool provides Biblical guidance on how to avoid repeating of mistakes.  One of the best ways we can do that is to listen to counsel from elders.
• Christian Personal Finance: How to raise a child on less is some excellent advice on managing the costs associated with having a child.  Some of the estimates out there on how much it costs to raise a child can be intimidating.  But using this advice and following wise money management principles can prove otherwise.
• Sound Mind Investing: Big Brother is watching…and compiling…and selling is an interesting post about how retailers are gathering information from you in unexpected ways.  Did you know a retail equation maintains information on merchandise returns made to an undisclosed number of national retailers?  Whoa!

One Money Design around the web

This week I discussed non-financial considerations in selling your house at Bible Money Matters.  It’s the second post in a two post series helping you answer the question:  should you should sell your house?

Today, I have a post at Christian Personal Finance that you don’t want to miss.  It explores dealing with common debt situations such as auto and investment debt.

Personal Finance Blog Carnivals

What is a personal finance blog carnival?  If you’re interested in learning more here is a great definition from BlogCarnival.com:

Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis. Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors opinions or remarks.

The benefits for the reader include reading a wide variety of content about personal finance.  A further benefit is the ability to interact with the writer or other readers in the comments.

And here are the carnivals One Money Design was recently featured in:

• Carnival of Personal Finance #243: Valentines Day Edition
• Carnival of Personal Finance #242: Fun Tax Facts
• Money Hacks #103:  Snowed In Edition

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