Archive for the ‘Saving For College’ Category
Thrift Tips 5/9
How to Save a Scratched CD/DVD Spray the entire surface down with Pledge. Wait about 10 – 15 seconds. Wipe of Pledge until the product is completely dry. Something in Pledge smooths over the imperfections making the DVD/CD playable again. It is amazing! With 2 girls under 10, we were always having “accidents” that ruined [...]
Thrifty Tips 2/9
Baking Soda to Clean Outside of Refrigerator To clean the outside of your refrigerator and make it look like new, use baking soda. Take a wet rag, pour some baking soda on it and start cleaning. This cleans the textured parts of the frig, like nothing I have ever seen before. –Sarah from Vandergrift, PA [...]
Baby Mint Back in Full Swing
Back in October I did a four part series on saving for college. In that series I talked about getting free money for college using the service BabyMint. At that time BabyMint had parted ways with the credit card company that issued its credit cards. Now they have their credit card back up and [...]
Saving for College Pt.4–FREE MONEY!!
In the past two days I have covered good places to put your savings for higher education. Now, in the typical saving freak way, I am going to unveil FREE MONEY FOR COLLEGE!! There are two programs out there that will give you free money just for shopping at vendors that you buy stuff from [...]
Saving for College Pt. 3
Yesterday we talked about the 529 plan. The second savings vehicle for higher education is called the Coverdell Education Savings Accout (or ESA for short). The ESA can be an effective way to save for college. Just like the 529 it is post tax money and the interest it earns is tax deferred. There are [...]
Saving for College Pt.2
Since saving for college should take more than five years we need to consider it a long term investment. Just like saving for retirement there are types of accounts that have tax advantages. The most widely used plan is called a 529 plan. All 529 plans are sponsored by a state. Meaning there are 50 [...]
Saving For College Pt. 1
Being the youngest child by eight years has its perks. You get to watch everybody else go through life and learn from their mistakes. Through multiple sources the message has come in loud and clear that understanding how to save for your children’s education is important. In this four part series I am going to [...]
