How do you get 2,500 students to make a big donation to charity? Let them run around in their underwear.
When your mom tells you to do something, you probably reassure her that you will and then forget about it. But when the mother of Ted Myers, a 22-year-old Arizona State University journalism graduate, called, he listened and it paid off in life-altering ways.
About one in five adults age 19 to 29 don't have health insurance. If you fall in that category, you might think you don't need the extra expenditure - after all, you're a young, strapping specimen of good health. But you're not invincible. Kiplinger magazine contributing editor Erin Burt says if you're dropped by your parents' plan (usually when you graduate college or when you turn 21 in most states), you can still get good, affordable coverage on your own.
At the ripe old age of 15 and a half I was given a car by my parents. Not to brag, though. It was a hand-me-down car from my eldest sister and was in functional condition. Not everything was perfect, but after all, it was previously enjoyed by my sister. Nothing special, but, like the old saying goes, it gets me from point A to point B.
