With education costs increasing every year, don’t you worry how your precious little home genius will afford college education? This mom devised a few tips that help save the money for this important and expensive educational milestone: Lisa M. recommends

• putting money into his education account 4 times a year
• enrolling in the Upromise program: you receive a percentage of purchases into your education fund
  

  This includes regular grocery shopping, pharmacies, gas, stores and Internet shopping.

• Upromise MasterCard:
  

  On top of our other purchases, we receive an additional percentage back into the children’s funds. We now pay all bills and everything we can think of through the MasterCard and then pay off the MasterCard each month. This additional strategy has increased our contributions tremendously.

Read her article at gatether.com: Easy College Planning Tip