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Re: The Official 2021 Debt Smackdown Claimed line 164. Last year’s debt smack down was really helpful, so here goes again. I’m a lawyer, and my husband is an architect, and we have major student loan debt.…
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Re: The Official 2020 Debt Smackdown August Checkin: $2529.34 paid, including our regular car payment and as much as we could on student loans That makes almost 95% of our primary goal! And we’ve actually already made payments this…
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Re: The Official 2020 Debt Smackdown @Purple Foal I worked full-time while my husband was in grad school in Chicago, and then we moved to a much less expensive city. After we moved for a new job for him,…
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Re: The Official 2020 Debt Smackdown Haven’t checked in for a while, but I just updated our line for the last few months, and I’m super excited with our progress. With both myself and my husband finally working full time,…
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Re: The Official 2020 Debt Smackdown We claimed line 169. This is our second debt smackdown, having paid over $12,000 toward our car and student loan debt in 2019 (over 80% of our goal of $15,000).…
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown We were able to put $3,000 EXTRA toward our student loans in December over what we usually do each month! While we didn't quite meet our 2019 goal (the final total was 80.…
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown Late on the November update. We only paid our required car payment, required student loan payment, and a tiny bit extra that we have set up to autopay, for a total of $579.73.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown Behind on updates. September was the same as previous months, mostly just our regular payments, but with a little extra on the student loans. For October, though,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown Oh, and my new job should qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which is a huge plus!
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown A little late reporting on August: Again, we paid our regular car payment and student loan payments, as well as just a little extra on student loans that we have automatically scheduled for a total…
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown July check-in: $579.73 in regular auto and student loan payments, plus a little extra on student loans. We are just over 40% of our goal, which isn't as far as we'd hoped to be by now,…
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown June check-in: We paid $579.71, which was our regular car and student loan payments, plus a little extra on the highest interest student loan. We are at 36.39% of our goal.…
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown So I'm catching up and doing the April and May check-ins at the same time. Our income-based repayment on our student loans just renewed/reset, so April was a weirdly low month since the autopay…
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown A little late on the March check-in. We basically just did our minimums and a little bit of round-ups from our checking account. Total of $578.31. We just did our taxes, though,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown Excuse me, $582.30. I wrote it correctly on the spreadsheet.
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown February Check-in: As expected, we got nowhere near our January amount this month. We came in at 522.30, which was mostly just our regular payments, but a little bit extra from round-ups.…
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown @Gingertwin Not a problem. I'll fix the January amount while I'm on here to add February.
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown January Check-in: We started the year off strong by making a $2,000 extra payment from funds we got at Christmas. Between that, our regular payments, and some debit card round-ups, we hit $2,569.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: The Official 2019 Debt Smackdown We claimed line 80. We aren't including our mortgage, which is currently covered by rent payments from tenants in our multi-family home. We currently have A LOT of student loan debt: about $240,…
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