In college I had to walk off campus a mile to get a notary to sign my absentee ballot. I could have had the university notarize it but it was their policy to charge and I was poor so I walked to my bank in the middle of January snows. I'm glad I did vote but I'm not pleased my state tries so hard to limit me from…

Good on you for voting from a foreign country! I have to ship documents overseas and even that stuff is so confusing. I am sorry you had a bad experience with it but seriously thank you for doing it anyway!

Sulfates aren't really something to be afraid of, they're just very strong industrial detergents. Sulfate-free is much more natural, and you don't need a superpowered detergent to get a little oil and dirt off of skin. Lauryl sulfate is more harsh than laureth sulfate, but cocamides are best. The only reason I use a…

I don't have kids yet. But I have my own student debt and a kid sister. When I moved to this city, where space is at a huge premium, I had to start selling things to make my life fit here. I realized: all those Christmas and birthday gifts I received when I was a kid were total crap. Silly collectible dolls and…

I came here to write something along these exact lines. I was very fortunate that my parents saved for my education. When I was preparing to go to college, they told me how much they'd saved for me, and I made the decision to go to an affordable school and make the most of the money, and get out with a good degree…

All of it. I was fortunate enough to have my parents save for me and make a lot of sacrifices to make sure that college was paid for. At the end of it, I walked away with no debt, no hole to dig myself out of. I will do the same for my kids (who don't exist yet, and might not ever). The head start you can give your…

The issues that I most strongly disagree on with Republicans - class and race issues, women's rights - are pretty intrinsic to the Republican party and tend to show up in most of their candidates. Therefore, I usually tend to go Democrat. I'm a registered independent, though, and I have voted Republican before.

Full time career? Or full time college student? I made a couple bucks more than minimum wage and made barely enough to cover half of my tuition at U of M.

Started with $100/month per child into 529 accounts. I think we'll bump that up once they get older and out of daycare. The oldest child will start kindergarten next Sept and he'll have a little more than $6k to his name for college. That is $6k more than I had when I started college in 2000. Any amount I contribute,…

I worked full time and ended up with six figures of student debt after completing my master's. Make six figures now too, pay to play I guess. Nonetheless, working full time in this economy doesn't cover tuition at reputable schools. Maybe a community college, but not top tier universities.

My parents did pay for my education and I cannot be more eternally grateful. That being said I am also very frugal with my money even today. So I cannot agree that paying for their education will make them take money for granted. I would say that offering to subsidize or even pay for a reasonable in-state college for…

That's a pretty broad generalization. My parents paid for a good chunk of my education, got some financial aid, and I took out Stafford loans for the rest. I had a part-time work study job too but that really just covered books and spending money. Despite not having to bootstrap myself financially through school, I…

If you choose to vote for "the lesser of two evils", then you'll ALWAYS support evil. That's just dumb. Vote for ANYONE but a Democrat or Republican. I don't care if it's Libertarian, Communist—fuck, you could vote for Hitler, Stalin and Mao and it'd STILL be a better choice, because at least then you wouldn't be…

well congratulations to you. Also thank you and your age demographic for doing such a fine job of fucking up the country. Bless you.

I honestly do not see a difference whatsoever between democrats and republicans.

I work for one man in a small business. It's just him and me. I don't get paid time off and if I take off then I lose a good portion of my paycheck since there are times when I only work once or twice a week because that's the only time he has work for me so no I couldn't take off.

my job requires me to drive out of state (at least a 4 hour drive there and back) every day so I couldn't just go vote on my lunch hour and nobody has ever informed me of early voting. This is my first time and nobody has ever mentioned that nor do we have mail in ballots so no for me and others it's not always within…

we young people so give a fuck and we'd be out there voting if we had the time. We're in school or working or taking care of our kids without help and the government has never given a fuck about us or making it easier for us to get to the poll and vote. I worked a 12 hour day yesterday, how was I suppose to go vote?

If demoralization with political parties is the excuse, especially in NY where Cuomo was pretty much guaranteed to win, GO AND VOTE THIRD PARTY. Even if they have no shot to win, 5% of the vote gets them public funding, which is a step in the right direction.

you know why old white people were able to get out and vote? It's because they didn't have a fucking job they had to go to. I'm so tired of hearing how is young people don't care about politics. I care a great deal but I have a job I have to go to and if I miss a day on that job that's half my car payment gone. Other…