Loan Total : $49,039 Long time no update! I definitely have dropped the ball on this blog. Still paying down the loans, just not documenting it as much. I’m hoping to change that soon 🙂 On the plus side, my loans are still slowly going down! I’m super excited that in a couple months I […]
June Update
Loan Total : $51,045 It’s been a few months since I’ve updated. Life and work got pretty busy. On the plus I was able to pay off a huge chunk though with my tax refunds! It’s pretty awesome to see the amount jump in a few months. Although I was able to pay off a […]
Story Time #1
I thought this would be a fun idea to fill up a couple blog posts. I didn’t have the best experience with my financial aid department at my college and thought it would be fun to share some of the “good times” Let me just say this is one of many stories from my financial […]
Motivation
Doing this blog definitely keeps me motivated, but there are other sites out there that keep me motivated on staying on track. I’ve mentioned Student Loan Hero a couple times since I started the “great payoff”. The site is a great reference for refinancing choices in questions. The feature though that I find more useful is […]
April Update
Loan Total: $54,757 Finally. I’m finally starting to make a dent. When I was adding up my loan totals for my post today I was seriously grinning from ear to ear. The efforts are paying off, literally! I semi-successfully completed my goals from last month. I sold an old phone I had that wasn’t working […]
Nothing In The Fridge?
The other night my husband and I were planning on making spaghetti for dinner. I thought we had the noodles, and we had all the other ingredients, but alas I was wrong, and we were noodle-less. After going through an intervention on eating out, I looked in the fridge and saw we had leftover rice […]
The Emotions of Student Loans
When I first decided to tackle taking on the rest of my debt this year, it was very overwhelming. I quickly went from okay to depressed to angry in a short amount of time. Taking on paying a huge amount of debt is and can be very emotional. I wanted to walk through how I […]
Good-Bye Takeout
Probably the hardest thing when budgeting, other than sitting down to make it, is keeping up with it. I had told myself at the beginning of this project that I was going to reduce my eating out budget drastically, and I did start out well…This last month I went through my expenses and noticed that […]
March Update
Three months down, nine more to go! This past month was finally starting to show some progress. Loan Total = $56,655 Finally back to the 56K amount again! After last month where I barely made a $100 dent (even though I paid way more than that…thanks interest) this month there was finally some progress. I […]
Febuary Updates
Wow, January felt like the LONGEST month ever with this. A bit delayed in updating at the beginning of the month, but here we go! Loan Total = $57,206.19 Okay, so I have paid off barely $75. Oh wow. Not the biggest progress, but I did some bigger things in January and met some of […]