Guide to Finding the Best Children’s Savings Accounts and Teaching Children How to Save Money

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Teaching children how to save money and helping people find the best children’s savings accounts is important to me for many reasons. There are a lot of money lessons you can teach a child.  For example, a parent can teach a child to spend wisely, give to a greater cause and how to earn money. [...]

Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps and Crown Money Map Review

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Do you prefer Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps or the Crown Money Map?  Dave Ramsey created the Baby Steps and Crown Financial Ministries created the Money Map for prioritizing and setting financial goals.  I think both are great resources that help provide focus and prevent you from diluting your efforts in trying to work on too [...]

ING Direct Transformation to Capital One 360 – What Can Customers Expect?

You may or may not have heard that Capital One bought out ING Direct February 17, 2012.  On November 1, 2012 they legally became one bank.  As a long time customer of the  ING Orange savings account, I thought I would share what I know about this transformation. I’ve written quite a bit about ING. [...]

How to Find the Best Children’s Savings Accounts

There are plenty of children’s savings accounts around you can use to help teach your children about the importance of saving money. Obviously, they all differ somewhat and you have to find the right account and institution that will meet your needs.  Things you’ll want to consider are accessibility of the account for both you [...]

Ways to Save Money for Your Children’s College Education

Saving money for college is an important priority for our family.  I’d love for our kids to attend college debt free and not have to worry about paying off school loans when they graduate, especially since the cost of education isn’t getting any cheaper. I received some help from my parents and scholarship money for undergraduate [...]

Tips to Pick a 529 Plan for Your Child’s College Savings

Are you starting to plan for your child to go to college someday?  Chances are you’re interested in learning about 529 savings accounts, which are the most popular way to save for college.  If you’re serious about using a 529 plan to help fund your little one’s future education, you’re on the right track.  But [...]

Saving Money For College with Upromise

Saving money for college can be a difficult task whether you are a student looking to start, or a parent saving for your child’s college education. Luckily, there are programs that can assist families who are looking for ways to pay for higher education. Upromise is a company that does just that. They use the [...]

Saving for College: What is a 529 Plan?

We haven’t been quite as aggressive with college savings yet as some of our other financial goals, but we’re looking to ramp this area of savings up in the near future.  I thought today’s post would be a great opportunity to share what I’ve learned about 529 education savings plans.  Perhaps you’re looking to open [...]