We have been paying college tuition for anywhere from one to three children for TEN YEARS SOLID and this June all four of our kids will be ...

We bought a lottery ticket this week -- which we rarely do. As he was leaving for work this morning, Tom mentioned that we'd forgotten...

I became a Bank of America customer in 1979.  In 2012, I will be leaving in disgust. Until last year, we never paid regular fees for any...

We’ve been paying college tuition for almost TEN solid years now – sometimes for as many as three kids at once.  The college accounts dried ...

I joined a class action lawsuit against AOL years ago. It seems that the volunteer "Community Advisors" (I was their childbirth...

I just had this conversation with a customer service agent at the “FAFSA on the Web Customer Service Live Help”: New party ('Carol ...

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squande...

I was doing some online banking last weekend when I noticed that one of my kids’ student accounts was significantly overdrawn.  (No, I ...

Is it just me, or have you noticed this void of commerce around you too? This used to be the area's K-Mart.  This parking lot was usua...

Last week Microsoft announced their first lay-offs ever -- 5,000 of them. And today Seattle got a double whammy.  Boeing announced a l...

This came in the mail today. (And it doesn't even cover yesterday's ER visit or the surgeon!)  I have insurance, thank goodness, but...

Now this really pisses me off! The $60,000 that it cost for the three big auto executives to fly to Washington (20K each) to beg the taxpay...

Things that make me go "huh?!": And things that make me cry: we've been saving money for our kids' college educations for ...

Instead of giving $700 billion dollars to Wall Street, why not divide that amount by the total number of taxpayers in the US so they can pay...

I just made $200 for doing nothing ! A few weeks ago I got a call from a research group, asking me if I was willing to participate in a mark...

Tom and I, as completely different as we are, happen to both be Sagittarians -- though at completely different ends of the spectrum, with my...

I spend a huge amount of time fretting over how to pay for our kids' college educations. This started six years ago, when Elisabeth head...

Do NOT invest in custodial accounts (UTMA/UGMA)! These are accounts that are in your child's name, with his/her social security number,...