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SweetLittleErin -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/23/2008 11:44:06 AM)

My SIL is establishing a fund (not sure what its called) for Isaac as our baby gift. Basically she will set it up, contribute some (as well as both sets of parents) and then it can be used for whatever he wants when he gets older (I think education, first home, stuff like that). Though hopefully he will be able to attend college like both hubby and I did, on full scholarships. Hubby had all expenses (including room and board and books) paid for as well as getting a hefty refund - which he used to start his business. He attended a state college. I went to a private college and had all my tuition and most of my books paid for, I lived at home, but didnt have enough extra for room and board. I did get a refund the first couple of semesters.



lexie -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/23/2008 12:02:27 PM)

We're doing something similar Ryanne.

The governments give us $100 a month to put toward childcare. Since I'm a SAHM, we're putting that into the RESP. Those cheques only come until she is 6, so we'll continue to put the same amount in. It's projected now that the RESP will be worth $40,000.

We also get other money from the government ("baby bonus") and we put all of that into a high interest bank account. We plan to give that to Akeelah when she "starts out in life" - so either when she graduates from university, or if she doesn't go, when she gets a job and her own place. Hopefully we'll have instilled enough sense in her to not spend it all right away!

And we'll do the same for all of the other children.



daughter_of_faith -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/23/2008 12:43:46 PM)

I don't know why the mascot was Trojans, but I think it may go back to the Trojan War? There's more than one school with that mascot....think USC Trojans, etc.

So far I haven't started saving anything for my son's college fund. I did have a scholarship for the CC....only had to pay room & board (and grandma paid for that). When it came time to go back to school after a failed marriage, I was on my own pretty much.



purejoy -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/23/2008 5:20:29 PM)

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ORIGINAL: 29redballoons
I have been an LPN for ...well, since 1985...and since then, they have been going to "phase them out". No disrespect to anyone's posts...but that statement is always funny to me. Why phase out an employee that can do absolutely any clinical task that an RN can do (with the exception of administer blood and chemotherapy...at least here in Ga) and do it for half the cost. Doesn't make sense to me....

I think it really depends what state you're in. I'm only familiar with my state, which is why I suggested she check into it, because I'm not sure how it is in other places. The LPN programs here are now few and far between, and the LPN's cannot do the same amount as the RN's...even in clinical tasks.
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ORIGINAL: PrudentWife
You will have *no problem* getting a job as an LPN. Hospitals/nursing homes/rehab facilities/MD offices are all trying to fill every position they possibly can with an LPN over an RN. RNs make almost double what LPNs make, so it just makes more sense to hire LPNs for many positions.

Again, that's why I suggested she find out how things work in her state. Hospitals here will not hire LPN's. My community hospital will only hire an LPN if they are already in school to become an RN. The major city and university hospitals do not hire LPN's at all. Now some community and city hospitals are going even further and not even hiring RN's unless they have their BSN. I don't think that will fly in my area, but one local hospital is attempting it.
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You can become an RN with an associate's degree. There are a couple accredited programs where you can get your RN with an associates.

Check around...at this point, there really isn't a reason to not go for your associates to begin with. The pay is the same. However, around here at least, the programs designed for people who already have their bachelors are actually shorter than starting over with an associates. So it would depend on what you can get to transfer.
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ORIGINAL: Mrs.Wifey
Alot of the kids I went to school with had parents who paid for their education, and I would say that 75-80% of them flunked the first semester. There wasn't such a high rate amongst the students who had earned the money to pay for their first semester. So, we'll see.

We always had to pay our own room and board. Which was a pretty good chunk of money we were working for all summer!



uponeagleswings -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/23/2008 10:11:29 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Mrs.Wifey

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Knowing the cost for us to get our educations is anyone setting aside money for their children's education?


We are, but they are basically going to get enough to attend a state college. Anything above and beyond the cost of state college will have to be earned and we might require that they pay for the first semester and prove that they are actually going to do the work.




Not a bad idea. My parents required us to pay for any class that we didn't pass with at least a C. I didn't have to pay any...my brother and sister paid for a few each. My parents paid for what wasn't covered by my scholarship, and I'll be forever grateful to them.



ThursdaysChild -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 4:07:10 AM)

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ORIGINAL: daughter_of_faith

I don't know why the mascot was Trojans, but I think it may go back to the Trojan War? There's more than one school with that mascot....think USC Trojans, etc.



They would be named after the real Trojans...from the war. The condoms are named after them. Apparently to sound more "manly". Makes more sense than naming them after the people from the island of Lesbos. [;)]

We did have an account set up for E through out credit union. But it was losing money instead of making it and we stopped. I think it's still open, just not having anything put into it. Hopefully things will turn around and we can contribute to it again as well as open two others.

BTW, back to renewable sources of energy. It turns out that petroleum IS renewable. It's not made from biological sources.

HERE'S THE LINK

It's very dry and technical, but interesting. It's still not the cleanest source of energy, but it's not something too likely to run out, apparently. Gee, I wonder why we don't hear more about this? Couldn't be liberal environmentalists, could it? Hmmm.

Have a nice day, ladies.





SweetLittleErin -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 9:51:16 AM)

I've always thought it was weird to name a condom after the Trojans. I mean seriously, a group of guys who snuck in unaware....[&:]



TwinCityGirl -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 11:50:22 AM)

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ORIGINAL: SweetLittleErin

I've always thought it was weird to name a condom after the Trojans. I mean seriously, a group of guys who snuck in unaware....[&:]


Now, that, to me, makes perfect sense in picking the name! [;)]



Mrs.Wifey -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 12:15:07 PM)

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ORIGINAL: TwinCityGirl

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ORIGINAL: SweetLittleErin

I've always thought it was weird to name a condom after the Trojans. I mean seriously, a group of guys who snuck in unaware....[&:]


Now, that, to me, makes perfect sense in picking the name! [;)]


Lol! To me too!



solo_soprano22 -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 12:22:19 PM)

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Again, that's why I suggested she find out how things work in her state. Hospitals here will not hire LPN's. My community hospital will only hire an LPN if they are already in school to become an RN. The major city and university hospitals do not hire LPN's at all. Now some community and city hospitals are going even further and not even hiring RN's unless they have their BSN. I don't think that will fly in my area, but one local hospital is attempting it.


It's getting that way here. My sister is an RN; mom was an LPN... she said if she had it to do over, she'd never do the LPN thing again. When she first started school, it wasn't like it is today. She says everyone basically thought the RN's were better (as far as attitude), but then the LPN's around here aren't really hired that much (the RN's are). But my mom was alive way back in the day.... she was in the OR for some lobotomies... which I thought was awesome because I'm interested in neuroscience. :)



Miss Giggles -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 12:27:06 PM)

Now I am totally confused over the rn/lpn thing. anyway the state has a worker retraining act and from the website it looks like make under the cap but I have to get the details to see if i would qualify.

if i did (which i doubt because i make ok money but not rich) then it would be two free years tuition to the community college.

edited to add: I looked up the hiring website of the hospital expansion and the ads are all for RNs.



Sideways -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 12:27:22 PM)

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ORIGINAL: daughter_of_faith

I don't know why the mascot was Trojans, but I think it may go back to the Trojan War? There's more than one school with that mascot....think USC Trojans, etc.

So far I haven't started saving anything for my son's college fund. I did have a scholarship for the CC....only had to pay room & board (and grandma paid for that). When it came time to go back to school after a failed marriage, I was on my own pretty much.


One of our local high schools are the Trojans. Seriously, a high school. I can just imagine all the jokes.

We started a fund for Nathan. I worked up until my 37th week, and almost all of my salary went into paying off any debt and building savings. So, we put 3K in at his birth, and $50 a month thereafter. Relatives have also given cash to go towards this. We'll expect our children to make good grades and contribute to their own educations, though.

We will be giving equally to our kids. My inlaws have two sons. The first is 5 years older then my dH, and BIL got accepted the MIT, which is great, but very expensive. They blew through much of their college saving on the first boy, leaving far less for my husband.

Don't get me wrong, he got through Georgia Tech (a much cheaper but just as good engineering school) just fine. He incurred a lot of debt and worked on top of it. His older brother even gave him as much money as he could, because even BIL saw the unfairness of it.

I almost have to bite my tongue off though, whenever they talk about "putting both our sons through college". They helped dh a little, and it's true they didn't technically have to do anything. But they don't get credit for seeing dH through college when they poured so much of their money into an expensive MIT education for their first son.



uponeagleswings -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 6:23:43 PM)

Um...our high school mascot was the crusaders. Not as bad as the trojans, but still.



nicole6598 -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 6:44:21 PM)

All I can say is I am glad we have free education here :)



Miss Giggles -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/24/2008 7:16:16 PM)

Oakland Universities mascot was the grizzlies and then they had to change it. I can't see why Grizzlies would be offensive.

However we had a coffee chain start up called "beaners" and not everyone understood why it might possibly be offensive. We're getting a pretty big hispanic population here. So now it's Biggby coffee.



LaurainAL -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 8:05:17 AM)

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ORIGINAL: nicole6598

All I can say is I am glad we have free education here :)


Nothing is free though. You are paying for it with higher taxes.



lexie -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 10:00:17 AM)

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Nothing is free though. You are paying for it with higher taxes.


That's true, but at least with taxes we're paying according to the amount of money we have. Obviously, I'm paying for my healthcare inadvertently by paying a high sales tax when I buy stuff, but at least I'm paying what I can and still getting my health care as opposed to the insurance programs that are offered to us through Dh's work that we can't afford each month!



solo_soprano22 -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 7:46:21 PM)

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Nothing is free though. You are paying for it with higher taxes.


That's true, but at least with taxes we're paying according to the amount of money we have. Obviously, I'm paying for my healthcare inadvertently by paying a high sales tax when I buy stuff, but at least I'm paying what I can and still getting my health care as opposed to the insurance programs that are offered to us through Dh's work that we can't afford each month!


I think I'd rather be in that situation than the one I'm in now. But I understand why some wouldn't want to pay higher taxes for such things.

I'm chronically ill, but I've always wondered how people whose meds are exorbitantly high can pay for them, even if insurance gets some of it. Like Pompe's disease... the meds cost over 3.5 million a year.. and you need to be on them for life. Some insurance doesn't even cover it at all (they refuse). My bills are high, but nowhere like that. [8|]



Mrs.Wifey -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 9:04:09 PM)

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I think I'd rather be in that situation than the one I'm in now. But I understand why some wouldn't want to pay higher taxes for such things.


Some people couldn't afford to pay more in taxes, they'd be even more broke then they already are... It's nice in theory though.



solo_soprano22 -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 9:37:54 PM)

I think I'm just thinking of it from the way my individual life is, but I can see both sides of the argument. The way I'm ill and have to pay for it like I do (I or my family), I think I'd actually be far better off (and have more money) in the end with higher taxes and the other system versus lower taxes+insurance+out of pocket for what insurance decides not to cover. But I understand that not everyone will come out that way in the end.(Insurance usually drops me because I get sick though.) My medical bills are up over hundreds of thousands-- possibly over a million just from the last three years by themselves. But it doesn't help that two of the three of us living here cannot work and/or are disabled.

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danas_mom -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 9:51:40 PM)

Can anyone help me put together a care package for a soldier in Iraq? One of hubby's friends has a son serving there. The dad sent a list of ideas of things to send, but I wondered if anyone had any more ideas, or knew of things that I should NOT send for whatever reason.

For example, I have several boxes of unopened Advil and Excedrin. Is it ok to send that, or no? The list mentioned shaving cream but NO aerosol cans. Does that mean stuff like Edge gel, Gillette gel is a no-no? The can does say not to store it above 120* so I'm wondering if that's off limits. (But I don't know where to get non-aerosol shaving cream if that's the case.)

Also, I need help filling out the customs form. I've never done one before and I have no idea how specific I'm supposed to be. The instructions on the back say to list the weight of everything included. Does that mean every individual thing I put in? We're putting a large assortment of things, that would take up a lot of writing space.

Here's the kinds of things I have in there so far:

Small notepads
Black ink pens
Highlighters
Propel powder individual drink packets
Maalox chewable antacids
Disposable razors
Pre-moistened adult wash cloths
Toothpaste
Toothbrushes
Chapstick (cherry flavored)

Here's what I have a large stockpile of and could easily include if it's ok:

Shampoo
Body wash
Bar soap
Advil
Excedrin
Edge gel
Gillette gel
Baby wipes (tubs)


Thanks for any advice.



Mrs.Wifey -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 10:00:42 PM)

DM, you might post in the military wife support thread, or read through there. I'm pretty sure there is an exhaustive list in there somewhere.

Aerosol things are tricky, I know I sent compressed air for cleaning electronics and just never declared it since it's a no-no. That one is really up to you... All the other things on your list are ok also and you can also add moisturizing eye drops, I know some of the guys went through alot of them. Oh, and razors are also popular.



manda59 -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 10:09:25 PM)

You might get some ideas from here, from what these organisations include in their packages:

AnySoldier.Com

Treat ANy Soldier

From what I see, fun stuff is appreciated, as also are things like cookies and popcorn. With cookies
wrap them in plastic wrap, then foil and put in a plastic bag, and they will stay fresh.

Re shaving cream, here in the UK you can buy it in tubes - maybe you can get it like that over there too?

I read one account from a lady whose nephew is in Iraq; she sent him
"a hoola girl that will stick to the dash of his Humvie and dance as he goes over every bump, a harmonica, a magnetic picture frame, a football magazine, recent local publications, one of the Worst Case Scenario books and some candy" and it went down very well.

Another lady said that her husband had requested air fresheners! (sent in a ziploc case); yet another had asked for sunscreen, wet wipes and face lotion. Also dried fruit, eye drops, granola bars and trail mix!



danas_mom -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 10:25:14 PM)

Thank you both so much for the ideas, I've been able to add some things from reading the links.



Mrs.Wifey -> RE: Kicka, part 3 (7/25/2008 11:39:34 PM)

You might also find out how much food they really need. I know when DH was there they preferred "real" food to sweat things. I sent packs of Tuna, Oatmeal, dried soup mixes, Ramen "cup o noodles", and other easy to eat things because alot of the time when they could eat the chow hall was closed. They always had more then enough cookies/candy/sweets and no matter how well you wrap cookies they are always stale(unless you use one of those vacuum sealers).



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