No College Fund-What Do I Do?

Regardless if someone went to college or not, people seeing that you have lots of material things like cars, houses, kids, vacations, etc does not mean that behind closed doors the income that they make they can actually AFFORD THOSE THINGS! We all know everyone wants to keep up with their peers to the extent of going into overwhelming debt to pay for those things with money they don’t have - AKA spend more than you earn!

If you cant afford a 4 year college, go to a community college first or look into getting a union job or working for a couple of years after HS to save some money. Unfortunately it sounds like barring extenuating expenses like health, job loss or disaster, your parents who seem to have a very good income, didn’t care or were selfish and spent all their money on today rather than saving for tomorrow (they probably dont have a safety net fund for themselves either). Great but sad lesson on how not to manage your future finances.