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March 2021 Updates: Health is Expensive

March 2021 Updates: Health is Expensive

Welcome to my March 2021 updates! If you are new here, every month I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans and on my savings. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. Student debt paid this month: $880.77 Student debt remaining: $43,945.22 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you want to check out the progress so…

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February 2021 Updates: Simple and Sweet

February 2021 Updates: Simple and Sweet

Welcome to my February 2021 updates! If you are new here, every month I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans and on my savings. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. Student debt paid this month: $880.77 Student debt remaining: $44,751.86 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you want to check out the progress so…

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January 2021 Updates: Searching for Clarity

January 2021 Updates: Searching for Clarity

Welcome to my January 2021 financial progress report, the first of the year! If you are new here, every month I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans and on my savings. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. Student debt paid this month: $880.77 Student debt remaining: $45,557.03 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you…

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2020 Year in Review: The Year of New Beginnings

2020 Year in Review: The Year of New Beginnings

Welcome to my 2020 Year in Review! 2020 flew by like nothing. It seemed like it was just yesterday that I was excited to see 2020 roll around. A new decade, a new start. Well, as we all know, that didn’t pan out quite as planned. Instead, a pandemic struck and before we knew it, we were just waiting for 2020 to finish to get to 2021. With that said, I wouldn’t say 2020 was a complete disaster. While many…

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December 2020 Financial Progress: Short and Simple

December 2020 Financial Progress: Short and Simple

Happy New Years Eve and welcome to my December 2020 financial progress, the last of the year! If you are new here, every month I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans and on my savings. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. Debt paid this month: $880.77 Debt remaining: $46,360.72 I house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here…

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The Road to $100K Net Worth

The Road to $100K Net Worth

Ahh! I can barely contain my excitement! Out of all the posts I’ve written or plan on writing, this was the post I was most looking forward to writing, with possibly the exception of being debt free. As of Oct 9, 2020, I currently have a six figure net worth!  For a while now, I’ve known that based on how much I was saving vs how much I was putting to pay off my debt that I’d hit the $100k…

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August 2020 Financial Progress: Back on Track

August 2020 Financial Progress: Back on Track

Welcome to my August 2020 financial progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans and on my savings. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $880.77 Debt…

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April 2020 Financial Progress: A New Strategy

April 2020 Financial Progress: A New Strategy

Welcome to my April 2020 debt progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $880.77 Debt remaining: $52,737.52 I…

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I Have $0 Net Worth and Proud of It

I Have $0 Net Worth and Proud of It

Drumroll please… As of Oct 17, 2019 I currently have a whopping net worth of ZERO dollars! And if you thought I’d be depressed over it, well you’re wrong. I’m damn proud of my $0 net worth! I guess a backstory is needed here. Why am I happy with my $0 net worth? Because for the first time since I became an adult, I have positive net worth.  I started undergrad at 18 by borrowing the first of many student…

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5 Ways to Trick Yourself Into Saving Money

5 Ways to Trick Yourself Into Saving Money

Do you wish you can save more money? Sorry, trick question. Of course, you do. I don’t know anyone who’d say no to that question. Saving money can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be complicated. The biggest hurdle to saving is that most people make it more complicated than it needs to be. Contrary to what some people think, you don’t need to have your life completely together to start saving. So here are some simple ways you…

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