SO awesome! Proud of you!
#repost frugalgirlbudgeting
Dear FedLoan Servicing, peace out, baby! I paid off $103,896.09 of student loans in a little less than 4 years. Before taking Financial Peace University, I had no real plan or control of my money, and only paid $3568.23 on my loans in about 18 months. Those 18 months included a grace period, deferment and consolidation. I knew that if I continued at a snail’s pace, I would be paying my loans well into my sixties! I saw a FB post about Financial Peace University, and the rest is history. At the end of 2016, I set a goal to pay off my loans by the end of 2020, and here I am!
Accounting for the payments made before I got serious, my total payoff is $107,464.32.
There are no words to describe the joy and peace I feel! This has been the hardest and most rewarding thing I have ever done. While working full-time, I side hustled as a receptionist, research coordinator, door lady, house cleaner and grocery shopper. I even found a gig pr...