A little over two years ago, my husband Danny and I set out on a journey to pay off over half a million dollars in debt. Our goal is to pay off our debt within five years. And while five years is relatively short in the big scheme of life, five years is a really […]
STUDENT LOAN PLANNER REVIEW
*This post contains an affiliate link at no extra cost to you. 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 […]
HOW TO SAY NO
I have a problem. A pretty big problem actually. I am a yes person. I admit it. I like to say yes. I’m a people pleaser. I do not like to say no, especially to people that I love. But I also don’t like to say no to complete strangers. Isn’t that silly? And while […]
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 […]
HOW TO DRESS FOR WORK ON A BUDGET
When I took my first job after law school, coincidentally around the same time I decided to aggressively pay off my student loan debt, I was really stumped about how I was going to dress professionally and also live on a tight budget. There just wasn’t extra money for clothes in our budget, but I […]
JANUARY’S 10 THINGS
It’s that time of the month again! Here are January’s 10 things, that is, 10 things that have been on my mind this month, some personal finance related and some not. We have some exciting things on the horizon. (1) If you follow us on Instagram, you know that we started a different budgeting technique for our […]
RESPONSES WE HAVE HAD TO HAVING $650K OF STUDENT LOAN DEBT
We have $650k of student loan debt. Actually, we have just a touch over $400k now. I guess if we are willing to publish a blog about it then it is not like we were trying to keep it a secret. Sometimes I forget the magnitude of our student loans. Because how could I cope […]