Phoenix Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
For those with non-furry kids...
Do you have a college savings plan set up? Does anyone mind telling me how you're saving for your kids' college expenses? 529 plan? Some other alternative?
Huge thanks coming your way!
Re: For those with non-furry kids...
Not yet but once we start getting money from the GI Bill, we probably will start one.
What's a 529 plan??
Here is some info on the 529 plan. Each state has their own. I don't know a ton about it, but basically it's a tax deferred plan that can be used for education costs (tuition, books, etc). I *think* that if your kid ends up not going to college, you can withdraw the money but then have to pay taxes on it. Anyone know if that's right? And I guess the money is not taken into consideration for awarding financial aid, which is a benefit of it, too.
We are doing savings bonds for the first three years and then setting up a 529 once we move here to AZ permanently. We buy a one hundred dollar bond every paycheck. We double our money but they take FOREVER to mature, that's why only for three years. But we just can't beat the return on our investment. In the three years we'll have almost $8000 and it only cost us $4000.
Wow, I never thought of that. Great idea, thanks!