Exactly my thoughts, Dianavan -- and those of my own mother. "I'll give you a place to live and feed you while you're in school, but when you leave you're on your own," she often said.

My brother tossed the second son out -- took him out, showed him a trailer, told him he was either going to buy it or he'd find the locks changed some night. Now the kid (yeah, right -- he's 28 now) has his own house, and you couldn't pay him enough to move back.