With this economy everyone seems to be scaling down their spending and looking for deals. Personally, I am on a tight budget but would love to get away to the Caribbean for a long weekend. I am a sucker for warm weather.

When I attended college in Michigan, our tuition increases were directly correlated to the economic status of our state.

Our governor was implementing policies that created a surge of income for the government, but years later it would create a worse economic situation. For example, trailer license plates changed from being a yearly renewal to a permanent plate. The income from that decision was substantial, being that the new price was ten times the renewal price, but the next year there would be no income for those trailer renewals.

Everytime I look at most of my textbooks left over from college, I think one of two things: Man, that is going to make a future bookshelf in my mansion look pretty flippin sweet! And the other is, each of those books could have bought enough beer to last an entire weekend back in college. If you have ever been in college or watched Animal House, you know how important that is.