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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like I'm in crazytown.  My parents were broke so we had no money for me to go to college. However I was accepted to a very good private university and I made with work -- I had one or two jobs every semester, took out loans and applied for grants.  I never resented it or felt like I was missing out on anything.  I still did internships, study abroad, etc.

I think it is great if you can pay for college for your kid. But I don't think anyone should feel like not paying for college will ruin his/her life.  If my parents had given me the choice between them socking money away for college or taking more family vacations, I would absolutely choose vacations.[/quote]

Is that really the reason your parents were broke? That they spent their money on vacations not college? I don't know anyone who doesn't save for both, if they have money to save.[/quote]

Sorry if I wasn't clear -- my parents were too broke to pay for college or vacations, so we got neither.  Looking back on it now, if money hadn't been that tight I would have preferred to go on vacations as a family, since that is something we never did. [/quote]

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