The end of college for our daughter is rapidly approaching. She graduates in 51 days! That's the first time I've actually counted.
She submitted her degree info a couple of weeks ago (and paid the $85 graduation fee). Today's milestone was ordering senior portraits. We did what we have always done with school photos and gone for one of the cheapest packages. In this case, the 2nd cheapest because the absolute cheapest only included one pose and we wanted both cap and gown and informal poses.
The list price on the package was $269 but when they mailed the proofs, they included an "early bird" offer for 10% off packages up to $299, so we saved $26.90 with that code. After tax and shipping, the total came to $266.14. While that certainly isn't cheap, it is right in line with what I was expecting so I'm okay with that. I kind of figured the whole process of graduation would cost us about $1,000. That includes photos, any school fees, a hotel room for the event, and any other miscellaneous expenses.
Of course, an even bigger deal is that the very last tuition payment is due April 15 for $3,100. I've been paying $3,100/month since December. I can't wait until May when I'll start getting to keep that $3,100/month in my pocket instead.
Just ordered college senior portraits
March 21st, 2018 at 05:33 pm
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PatientSaver - I talked about this on the forums. https://www.savingadvice.com/forums/investing-banking/86994-what-do-extra-money-each-month.html Basically we'll first payoff our HELOC, then split money between extra cash savings for short term stuff, extra retirement savings, and extra mortgage payments.
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A lot of schools don't allow that anymore. They've made it so that if you don't use the appointed photographer, your photo won't be in the yearbook.
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