Vox Hunt: I'm Saving Up For This
Show us something that you are saving or budgeting for.
Submitted by foxsydee.
This is the more immediate (within 3 years) need:
This is the ultimate goal:
The above photos illustrate where the bulk of my money is likely to be spent for the next 22 years.
Comments
Yeah, it's more than a little daunting when you think about the cost of education these days. My father-in-law says he hopes Baby C will play ball (basket or foot - my FIL played both) and get a scholarship; I'm partial to the whole educational scholarship route myself. Either way, it's pretty damned scary.
The plus side is that the school where I want to send him for PK-3 and on isn't that much more per year than daycare. I don't know if that's a good thing because it means we won't be dishing out that much more a year for private school, or if it's a bad thing because it means we're paying an awful lot for daycare. Either way, I've already spent a small fortune on my little boy's education - and he's not even 4 months yet!
My parents sent my sister and me to private schools, too, from PK to 12, and I think it was totally worth it. My parents saw it as an investment in their futures as well as ours. I'll never forget the day I told my dad how much my first semester of college would cost him (I went to a public college - gasp!). I told him how much I needed to give the bursar, and he kind of stared at the bill and said, "Is this per unit?" When I assured him it was for all 21 units and that I'd already bought my books, I thought my father was going to do a little happy dance right then and there. I didn't realize it at the time, but sending me to college for 4 years was about half as much as sending me to high school for 4 years!
These days, my parents are happily retired world travelers. They reinvested the money they saved sending me to college (that still sounds odd) and the money they didn't spend after I graduated and were able to afford a nice retirement. Seeing their example and knowing it's possible, I certainly have hope that I'll be able to pay it forward to my child(ren).