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Sweet dreams.

This is your housing situation, your savings accounts, the list goes on and on.

And even though this year brought a lot of new financial questions into our scope of consideration,

we also know that a lot of the old ones just hang on.

And perhaps there is no bigger one than the question of prioritization.

Specifically, how best to give life to what are often our two biggest goals,

a healthy retirement for ourselves and a successful financial start for our kids?

Because the truth is that with college costs soaring, as we heard from Ron Lieber in episode 254,

to as much as $300,000 I can't believe I just said that for four years of private tuition,

we really can't do all of it.

We can't give our kids a fully paid college experience and ensure that our own futures

are as secure as they need to be in the vast majority of cases.

So what do we do?

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