With college costing so much, kids today need to realize how expensive their education has become. See this article in The Sacramento Bee by Claudia Buck:
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/19/4736253/personal-finance-college-freshmen.html
If the kids help by keeping their own costs under control and looking for college bargains in books, clothes, etc., maybe you won’t have to sell the house to pay for college.
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