Are We Saving Too Much for College?
Ramsey Everyday Millionaires
Ramsey Network
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Ramsey everyday millionaires, where we talk retirement, building wealth, |
| 0:10.5 | and outrageous generosity. |
| 0:13.9 | Let's go to Nicole in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 0:16.2 | Hey Nicole, what's going on? |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, thank you for taking my call. |
| 0:20.9 | You got it, what's up? |
| 0:22.9 | I asked, we have two kids, April 14 and 16, and we have 529 accounts for them with about |
| 0:31.2 | $80,000 or so in it. |
| 0:34.5 | And I'm a bit concerned about overfunding the 529s. |
| 0:41.4 | I feel like their grades are not amazing or not bad. |
| 0:45.8 | And I'm thinking they might end up starting with a community college or even staying home |
| 0:51.1 | for college and just commuting. |
| 0:54.1 | So I'm wondering if we should start taking the money that we're putting into the 529 and |
| 1:00.8 | put it instead into a non-retirement account with our Mart Vester Pro and that way they |
| 1:07.1 | could have it for college if they needed. |
| 1:08.9 | But if they don't end up needing that much, we could use it for something else for |
| 1:12.8 | them. |
| 1:13.8 | All right. |
| 1:14.8 | What's your financial picture look like? |
| 1:15.8 | You guys are obviously in baby steps 4, 5, and 6. |
| 1:18.3 | So are you investing 15% for yourselves? |
| 1:20.7 | Yes. |
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