Spinoff thread: How much did your parents save for your college educ?

not a damn thing. Not b/c she didn't want to, but b/c she couldn't.

It's why I have a second mortgage worth of student loans, which I'm happy to pay back (though it does suck).

Zero dollars. They provided me with plenty of cool vacations and all the funding I needed for travel baseball. Fair trade, IMO.

Mine put into the now defunct Alabama PACT program. I'm not sure what their out of pocket was for each of us into it...but overall with the 4 of us my dad received a positive ROI. My youngest brother's payout is still in litigation I believe.

Zip Zilch Nada

I always wanted to get a bumper sticker made that said "Me and my own damn money go to LSU"

$0.00

and still graduated debt free

They would give me money for gas and food on occasion, but other than that, I was on my own.

I worked 90-100 hour weeks in a lumber yard during the summer to pay for living expenses, scholarships paid for the rest.

Zero.

The thing that mattered most was that the couple of college decisions I made were based entirely upon what I could afford to pay for myself as opposed to what I actually wanted to do. I worked through school and didn't graduate with very much debt, but I'm also not doing what would have been my chosen profession.

I'm not whining necessarily, its worked out fine. However, this is the reason I will be saving almost to my detriment to give my kids options.

I mean...id sorta count that as college education expenses

$0.00.

My answer is 'zero' as well. But how many of your parents did this. They sat me down when I was about 11 years old and said "Zach, we can't send you to college. We have no money. If you want to go you'll have to get a scholarship."

It was great motivation. What was your parents' message to you regarding college?