It’s not easy to think about life insurance. Trust me, I know. It’s not fun to imagine you or your spouse dead. I get it. But the chances are good that if you are a young professional (dentist, doctor, lawyer, etc) saddled with student loan debt despite your high income, you don’t have enough (or […]
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STUDENT LOAN DEBT HELP
Need help navigating your student loans? For me, student loan debt seemed like no big deal when I was starting school. It was just one more thing on the to-do list of starting school. You create your class schedule, get your text books, sign a couple of dotted lines to take out six figures of […]
HOW I PAID OFF $200K OF STUDENT LOANS IN 2 YEARS
Have you ever felt like the weight of your student loan debt (or any other debt for that matter) was going to completely crush you? I have. I remember clearly sitting in the reserve section of the law library during my final semester of law school, opening up the website to view mine and my […]
EASIEST BUDGETING METHOD EVER
Since we first started our journey paying off $650k of student loan debt, we’ve tried out dozens of different budgeting techniques, many of which were needlessly complicated. Budgeting can actually be extremely simple. From paying for everything in cash, to complex excel sheets, we’ve finally found the EASIEST BUDGETING METHOD ever that has worked amazingly […]
STUDENT LOAN PLANNER REVIEW
What is the Student Loan Planner? The Student Loan Planner is a website where you can get a personalized student loan debt plan to help you get on the path to debt freedom. It also has a blog that answers basically any question you could ever have about student loans. Basically, it’s a website of […]
PAYING OFF SIX FIGURES OF DEBT
If you have six figures of debt, you’re in good company. The population of people who have six figures of student loan debt is exploding– more than 700,000 borrowers in the U.S. owe more than $200k, plus 2 million borrowers who owe between $100k and $200k. It sounds crazy in the abstract, when you AREN’T one […]
REASONS YOU SHOULDN’T USE CASH
Ever since Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover came out (if you haven’t read it, I fully recommend it as a great starting place) it seems like everyone these days is using cash. Dave recommends it as a tool to keep your spending in check and while he makes some obviously valid points (you can’t buy things […]