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congratulations on the new baby! What a great thing to change your financial future for the kid! And amazing job and good work and congratulations on everything.
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Fantastic progress. Thanks for the update. And congrats on the baby!Steve
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Nice work. I had lasik in 2018 and it was the best thing I've ever done for myself so I can't blame you there. I'm surprised you splurged on that car after all the progress you've been making but it sounds like things are generally going well for you, and I think its great you're taking advantage of this time to keep paying on your student loans while deferred. Curious, from your previous and current balances, it looks like you're attacking loan C before loan A despite similar starting balances and C having a much lower interest rate. Any reason you wouldn't shift your extra payments to loan A instead?Comment
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Thank you! She is the light of our lives and yes, really, is a great motivator to get out of debt as soon as possible.
I had gotten Student Loan C down to $19k while A was $24k and it was just the next lowest in line. I'm following the debt snowball method, so since it was about 5k less, that's where I took my aim. I started paying on C with fury about April of this year when student loan interest had already been put to 0%. I thought I could finish it before the 0% interest went away and then still have time to start on A and make a good dent before the waiver was done (which will hopefully turn out to be the case if all things go as planned).Comment
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amazing progress so congrats...congrats on the newest addition to your family..such a blessing..and yes they are motivation to get rid of debt...hope you reach your targetComment
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Good morning all!
My husband and I keep an emergency fund that we feel comfortable with, and since our jobs have been very stable after the initial Coronavirus hit, we decided to dig into it and see what we could afford to put towards my loans. We made a large payment ($5300) and finished up Student Loan C AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
I'm now working on Student Loan A and throwing everything I have towards it. I hope to work towards this as much as possible until at least December 31 when the waiver expires for no interest/no payments due.
Status Update:
Student Loan A
Starting Balance: $27,690.48
Interest Rate: 6.8%
Current Balance: $22,264.92
Student Loan B
Starting Balance: $9,587.74
Interest Rate: 7.9%
Current Balance: $0.00
Student Loan C
Starting Balance: $24,332.28
Interest Rate: 5.41%
Current Balance: $0.00
Student Loan D
Starting Balance: $1,379.25
Interest Rate: 6.41%
Current Balance: $0.00
Lasik Eye Surgery
Starting Balance: 4950
Interest Rate: 0%
Current Balance: $0.00
Car
Starting Balance: $23,952.78
Interest Rate: 4.99%
Current Balance: $15,913.90
Thank you for all the encouragement, I'm doing this!Comment
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LivingAlmostLarge I'm definitely going to make our goal -- by end of 2021!
james.hendrickson So I'm going to work on the student loan until the end of this year when the waiver expires. The interest on the student loan is almost 2% higher than the car loan, but you are right, that it is partially deductible (on the student loan). However, I think it is just a mental game with me. I think I'm going to continue to pay off the student loan until it is finished and then move to the car. I know the car loan is smaller at the time being, but because I've had the student loan over my head since 2014, I feel this extremely STRONG urge to just get rid of it as soon as possible. The car loan does not loom over my head as much.
The snowball is just to continue to find motivation and it's all mental, so I think because of the mental hold it has on me, I'm going to continue paying off the student loan until it's gone and then move to my car. They'll both be done by next year, so no real harm done either way.Comment
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You’re on the right track now! Keep up the hard work!Comment
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Congratulations on the great progress and the new addition! And thank you for sharing your progress with this community. You took a bit of circuitous journey to debt free with the addition of the car and eye surgery during your journey. Once you're debt free are you planning on remaining debt free moving forward?“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”Comment
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Congrats on knocking out those pesky credit card debts. Hope your payoff journey is still on track! For your student loans, you can use the debt avalanche method as others have suggested (make minimum payments on all and put extra money toward debt with highest interest rate first), which should save you on interest in the long run. You can also use the debt-to-interest ratio strategy, which prioritizes the debt with the lowest debt-to-interest ratio. In this case, you'd try to knock out Student Loan D first, which has the lowest balance and should help free up some cash once paid off in full. Then, you'd move on to Student Loan B, which has the second-lowest balance but highest interest rate. Once that's paid off, you'd work on Student Loan C, then A. Hope that helps!Comment
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Hello again!
I'm back again with a (late) status update!
Status Update:
Student Loan A
Starting Balance: $27,690.48
Interest Rate: 6.8%
Current Balance: $0.00
Student Loan B
Starting Balance: $9,587.74
Interest Rate: 7.9%
Current Balance: $0.00
Student Loan C
Starting Balance: $24,332.28
Interest Rate: 5.41%
Current Balance: $0.00
Student Loan D
Starting Balance: $1,379.25
Interest Rate: 6.41%
Current Balance: $0.00
Lasik Eye Surgery
Starting Balance: 4950
Interest Rate: 0%
Current Balance: $0.00
Car
Starting Balance: $23,952.78
Interest Rate: 4.99%
Current Balance: $11,761.77
ALL MY STUDENT LOANS ARE PAID OFF!!!! I made the last payment April 24, 2021. For some reason, I thought I had come update here. I'm about to make a large lump sum payment to my car, which should put my balance right around $5-6k, and then it'll be gone in no time! Debt free by the end of the year! (Minus the house.....)
Then we'll start on that!
Thank you for everything!!!Comment
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Woot woot woot!!!!! Way to go cdorfish!Originally posted by cdorfish View Postjames.c.hendrickson@gmail.com
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