Before Sawyer was even born, and shortly after Dana was pregnant, we started saving for his college. College currently costs ~$60,000/year, and given the depressing thought over that yearly cost, and knowing that prices are only increasing hourly, we knew we needed to start saving promptly. Dana is in charge of the budget, and given that her sole purpose and goal in life is to live without any debt, she empties the checking account bi-monthly paying bills, much to my demise. This means that there is NOTHING left to save for Sawyer from our paychecks, so I decided to take a different approach with his savings. Whenever we pay for things with cash, and receive dollar bills and coins for change, it immediately goes into this jar:
Sawyer's college savings...it's so small it's in a jar.
One of his Mommies (guess who), has a tendency of occasionally pulling bills from his jar in order to pay for lunch (and his other Mommy works so damn much that she doesn't get to eat lunch). Apparently she thinks this is ok. Since she continues to do this, and makes budgetary decisions due to interest rates, a sticky note has been added to Sawyer's jar:
The only way to deter one Mommy from stealing her son's college savings.
Perhaps this will insure that Sawyer will have enough money for at least one semester of college. We shall see...