Jumping off point

Want to save for your kids education? Upromise is a great way to do it. Besides offering Vanguard 529 accounts (tax deffered/free) they give you money. They have restaurants and grocery stores and gas stations and online stores and regular stores all signed up so when you spend money they put some money to your kids college fund. There are also credit cards that give you the 1% on all you spend, or American Airlines miles can be redeemed, etc, etc. They've got more ways to get free money than I can name.

So you don't have kids? Do you have nieces or nephews or cousins, or is your wife going back to school? That's right you can save for other relatives education, and not just young ones. If they don't decide to go to school you can assign a different beneficiary, or take the money back (at a slight tax penalty). This stuff is great.

Best part is you can sign up to help my kid go to college. No cost to you but Emlyn will appreciate it.

http://www.upromise.com for more info