What is financial aid like?

undecided2014
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 01:01:10 +0000

My parents are actually very frugal. Since they are so rare on spending money, I was shocked to find out that they have actually saved the money for my college. They have taken in foster children, they save a lot, and have tons of hand me downs. Those are the kind of parents I have. And they seem to scoff at the idea of keeping up with the Joneses. My dad is an engineer. My mom was a teacher. But she does not go to work for money anymore. We have had occasional foster peeps here and mom does a fair amount of volunteer work and I have sibs with disabilities. My parents are NOT the typical middle class family. I swear I was the oldest person without a cell phone. My older brother got one when he started driving, in case of an emergency. And my parents only got me one after I started driving too. Even then, I got the handmedown dumb phone. I am grateful, I really am. The point is, my parents are soo frugal, they would not spend the penny on the new dumb phone when they added me to their plan. LOL. I know I will be as frugal as them! And I already got a summer job for this upcoming summer.