I Bonds or a 529 Plan?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
With bond funds getting hammered, how about using I bonds as an alternative to the bond portion of a 529 plan?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 0:05.6 | It is Friday, April 8th. |
| 0:07.9 | And we are here trying to help you make really good financial decisions. |
| 0:13.0 | And when I say good ones, it's really predicated on what you want to do. |
| 0:16.8 | So the financial decisions are about making sure that you can take a step towards something |
| 0:23.0 | in your life that you want to achieve. |
| 0:24.9 | As I say over and over, I am not into money for the sake of money. |
| 0:29.3 | I just don't quite get it when people are like piling up money and not actually using |
| 0:33.9 | it to enjoy some part of their lives and whether that means doing something different |
| 0:38.6 | or some sort of financial freedom or whatever it is, it's not worth it. |
| 0:43.6 | You can pile it up, pile it up, pile it up, you know, use your money to do something |
| 0:47.7 | good with your life, something important that you feel good about and let us help you |
| 0:52.1 | get there. |
| 0:53.2 | You tell us what that good thing is, we'll help you get there, promise. |
| 0:57.3 | We really will. |
| 0:58.4 | We try to do every single day. |
| 1:00.5 | All right, so Mark, I'm going to do some emails today because I presume they're kind of |
| 1:05.3 | piling up. |
| 1:06.3 | This one I love, here's the subject, how to get out of a timeshare. |
| 1:10.3 | Good luck with this one. |
| 1:12.3 | I've been involved in some timeshairs, not myself, but my father bought one in Mexico once. |
| 1:18.8 | He had to die so that we could get rid of it, by the way, which is not the best answer |
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