Saving for College While You Shop
Upromise, the first of several programs that enable you to earn money for a 529 college savings plan while you shop, is offering a $10 bonus if you sign up and make a purchase before the end of April. Okay, $10 isn't much when you consider how much college is likely to cost by the time baby heads off to Boston. But every little bit helps.
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Neither of Upromise's main competitors, Baby Mint and Little Grad , is currently offering an incentive for joining. However, they each offer their own unique benefits. For example, whereas Upromise requires members to open an Upromise-adminstered 529 plan, Little Grad will automatically deposit rebates into a 529 plan of your choice.
One of the more innovative rebate programs for those wanting to save somewhere other than a 529 plan is Bond Rewards . The program, which claims higher percentage rebates than the college savings rebate programs, pays out in the form of U.S. savings bonds.
Managing Money by The Book
- "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'" - 2 Corinthians 12:7-9
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