92-Year-Old Grandma Finally Stops Sending $20 a Week to 12 Grandkids in College

Oh my gosh, this is so sweet!!  A 92-year-old grandmother named Mary LaCava had her 12th grandchild graduate from college last week.  While this is a milestone for anyone, it’s also particularly poignant because Mary had been sending her grandkids $20 every week, along with a handwritten note.

“As they say, you start something, you finish it,” Mary LaCava told WBZ-TV in Boston.

Some of her grandchildren saved the money, others spent it right away, but they all say the handwritten notes made their days. Among the LaCavas, the notes are affectionately called “nanagrams.” They even came on custom stationery with that name at the top.

Her grandkids really loved the notes, as you might imagine – and said they came even if they were abroad.

“When the first one went, I figured she could use it. So I just sent her a small note with a $20 bill, and that started it. To me it was just something, not that I had to do, but I would never miss,” said Mary.

That is so cool!  Mary calculated approximately how much money she mailed, and this is what she came up with:

$1,000 per grandchild per year. Multiply that by four and again by 12, and you have her spending nearly $50,000 as her grandkids got through four years of college.

Way to go, Grandma!

Image credit: By Petar Milošević (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons