Who stays and who goes?

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

One positive thing about investing in a college fund, like the GET program, is that it will guarantee tuition rates - which in my eyes is a huge savings. I wish I had been able to do that for my step daughter, but at the time, I was paying support on my birth daughter, and just didn't have the extra funds.

Thats just it we all have so many things that we have to pay for these days that saving money for a possible future college fund is really not in the arrangements anymore. If you have the cash to set aside for that kind of money then good for you, but most of us are barely getting by from month to month and trying to make ends meet. Still like the last young man stated he is proud of the fact that he makes ends meet all on his own, which helps greatly with his self esteem. Not to mention I am willing ot bet that your dad is proud as hell of the sacrifices you have made and that you are wanting to do it all on your own. When we get old and reach those days of losing some of our abilities that last thing we want is for our children to suffer trying to take care of us. So that excuse does not wash either. If you want the education bad enough you will fight your way through whatever you have to in order to get it. Then you have something to be proud of for sure.

Glad to hear that you laid down the law in your own house. It sounds like she needed a little old fassioned wakeup call to get off her butt. Keeping animals when you are struggling to pay the bills is another pet peave of mine. If you struggle to put food on the table, then the animals have to go.