$190k Paid Off in 5 Years on a Teacher’s Salary
This post may contain affiliate links. Check out my Disclosure Policy for more information. I am blown away that I am hitting my 5 year anniversary on this journey. In June 2014, I was in my first semester of graduate school and my father called me. He…
When Should You Take Out a Personal Loan?
When Should You Take Out a Personal Loan? You might be reading this article and thinking to yourself, “what’s the point of taking out a personal loan when I already have student loan debt to pay off?” This question isn’t entirely unfounded, as it goes…
$144,205 Paid Off in 4 Years on a Teacher’s Salary
This post may contain affiliate links. Check out my Disclosure Policy for more information. Wow. I can’t believe it has been 4 years on this journey and I really can’t believe I have paid off so much debt. When I graduated from grad school in August 2015,…
Should I Invest While Paying Off Debt?
This post may contain affiliate links. Check out my Disclosure Policy for more information. Whether or not you should invest while paying off debt is a hot topic in personal finance. There are many different ideas surrounding this topic. The short answer is that it depends on…
The One Thing You Need to Do to Pay off Your Debt
This post may contain affiliate links. Check out my Disclosure Policy for more information. Paying off debt isn’t hard to do on paper. You increase your income and decrease your spending. Simple, right? On paper, yeah, it is easy. The problem is that it takes a ton…
Paying Off 6 Figure Debt and Still Living Your Life
This post may contain affiliate links. Check out my Disclosure Policy for more information. The thing that I don’t like about some of the personal finance gurus out there is that they tell you to basically stop living your life to pay off your debt. And I…
How a 6 Figure Debt Free Journey Is Different
This post may contain affiliate links. Check out my Disclosure Policy for more information. I say it a lot, 6 figure debt is no joke. And I’m not including a mortgage when I say this. I’m talking about 6 figures of non-mortgage debt. This would be debt…