Last week, I announced a money giveaway offered by BillShrink, where a randomly selected commenter would be awarded $250 in cash. I requested for you to help name BillShrink’s website model and to check out their tools, which aim to help you save money on your gas bills, cell phone plans and credit card payments.

Not an accurate representation of the actual prize, but close enough.

Well, the time has finally come for the winner to be announced! My random pick is comment #16, by “jen”, who supplied four interesting names for the model, funny enough! But out of the four names (Billie, Penny, Dolores N. Cents, Payshence Saves ), I guess I’d like to settle on the conventional name “Penny”. It’s simple and fits the “pretty penny” mold, which is what BillShrink helps you save. So I’ll be getting in touch with jen soon to send her the $250 prize.

And for all those of you who joined our giveaway, I would like to say a heartfelt thanks for taking the time to check out BillShrink and for leaving us a comment. I hope to get the opportunity to hold more giveaways like this in the future!

Let’s now check on this week’s great bunch of reads from some of my favorite financial talking heads. As always, it’s a list I enjoyed putting together:

Personal Finance Articles

• The Wallet: Why We Love — and Love to Hate — Fads
• Free Money Finance: Does a Pleasant Attitude/Personality Help You Succeed?
• Bad Money Advice: A Principal Protected Free Lunch?
• Almost Frugal: 7 Easy Tips to Sleep Better Frugally
• Ask Mr. Credit Card: Which Delta SkyMiles Credit Card To Get?
• Lazy Man and Money: How I Saved Hundreds in a Half Hour
• Frugal Dad: Create a “Dream Budget” for Extra Motivation
• Brip Blap: It’s Not Just You
• Intelligent Speculator: Why Viral Buzz Is Priceless…
• One Mint: Will I be sued for credit card default?
• Budgetpulse: Americans are Starting to Save More…
• Dividend Tree: Building Core Competency for Long Term Survival

Recent Carnivals

• Carnival of Personal Finance: I was extremely honored that Kelly from AlmostFrugal selected my article on savings account rates to make the grade as one of her top picks.
• Money Hacks Carnival: I was once more thrilled to make the Editor’s Pick at Personal Finance By The Book, a new site I’m getting to know. Thanks to Joe for giving my post on how to improve your credit score, his nod.
• Carnival of Money Stories
• Carnival of Debt Reduction
• Festival of Frugality

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