Comments on: Coffee Cents & College Kids

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:11:50 +0000

Welcome Yesenia! Thanks so much for stopping by, I’m glad you like the site :) Money was the last thing on my mind at 21 (well, besides WANTING a lot of it, haha…) so good for you on taking control early on. You don’t have to be perfect with it all or anything, but as long as you’re 80% there you’ll be fine ;) Keep on staying motivated!

By: Yesenia

Yesenia — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:29 +0000

This is awesome! I am 21 and have been following your blog for some time now. I don’t feel so alone!

I have been reading up to get a head start of my finances. I have been managing my finances pretty well. Not great, though. I definitely know that some of the cash that I spent could have been used differently, but this is minor purchases.

By: AB

AB — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:53:41 +0000

Thanks for this! It gave me a little wake up call. Does anyone else know of any good college budgeting resources? So far I’ve found this blog that I’ve really liked

http://blog.greensherpa.com/index.php/personal-finance/the-frugal-student-part-12-the-best-of-the-frugal-student/

Does anyone else have any other suggestions?

By: J. Money

J. Money — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:42:22 +0000

@Meghan Fife – You guys should have some sort of convention ;)
@Ken– Yup! Gotta leak some good stuff into those brains of theirs before they’re old and stubborn.
@LeanLifeCoach – I think most people earn at least a million over their lifetime, pretty crazy if you think about it.
@CoffeeCents – Thanks for stopping by Popick! We’re all supporting you with this endeavor ;)
@Hank – The others are coming soon from what I hear. Should be good stuff.
@kt – Oh yeah! Living in the “real world” can go much farther sometimes…although learning in the classroom is smart too, just different kinds of learning going on ya know?

By: kt

kt — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:59:53 +0000

i started thinking about making money and getting into investing when i turned twenty and for the past few years, i have been aggressively trying to built a portfolio of businesses and increase my financial education. some of them have not gone so well(gross understatement considering the disastrous failures that some business ventures have ended as). but i am learning and i am so sure that i will be very very extremely rich at a relatively young age(so that i retire in a nice place and get a jet). strange that you learn more in a single venture than most of the college lectures i have ever attended

By: Hank

Hank — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:32:47 +0000

What a great initiative. These are definitely things that I think most people had wished they had learned in college. I really liked the PowerPoint too. I can’t wait to see the next ones.

By: CoffeeCents

CoffeeCents — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:24:15 +0000

Thanks for the awesomely awesome comments folks. I’ve been doing this on and off for a few years and finally am getting around to formalizing the approach. I’m thrilled to say that CoffeeCents will be expanding to multiple DC campuses in fall 2010. I’m right now working on a much better website and finishing the downloadable content.

Please distribute the PPT as much as anyone would like.

And Keith, yes, I do have plans on scaling up. I’m planning on a 501c3 filing over the summer to ramp it up and provide some structure. If anyone out there would like to participate through leading sessions based on the CC’s core strategy (aka the PPTs), please let me know. I’ve been doing this because I’m passionate about PF education and its a useful way for PF bloggers to stop talking to each other and start talking to the folks who don’t read our blogs! (Hopefully afterwards they do!)

By: LeanLifeCoach

LeanLifeCoach — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:35:19 +0000

J. – Great job on getting out there and making a difference. No doubt, it is never too late to start but starting young is so much easier!

I actually went back and calculated where I would be had I started young. If you could conjure up the tone and accent of Marlon Brando “I coulda been a millionaire!”

It will still happen, just later (a lot later) than it could have.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:44:34 +0000

Hats off to anyone trying to educate the 20 somethings about money management.

By: Meghan Fife

Meghan Fife — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:39:14 +0000

3 out of the 6 (or 50%) of the commenters so far have some kind of “Meg” in their name.

That is way too cool.