When I was about 19 and decided to drop college and work full time my parents started charging me $300 a month rent to live at home (this was in '79). I was so upset at my parents and how DARE they charge me money to live in MY OWN HOME!? I grudgingly wrote out that check every month, cursing my parents under my breath. I moved out a couple years later to my own apt with a roommate.

Well, don't you know, they took that rent money, saved it, and invested it. On my wedding day they presented my husband & I with a check for just over 10,000.00. That became our house down payment! I will never forget their gift!

Our oldest is now a college freshman, but if she decides to come back home and is working full time I intend to do the same thing for her and the other two kids if the situation arises.

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