$239.50 – student loans (monthly AW)
$6.00 – additional video store late fees : S 1 day ago

$700.00 – woohoo! 1 week ago

I completely forgot that my student loan is on auto-pay. That is definitely a debt I will be happy to say good-bye to (someday). 1 week ago

I’m not sure if a $1.00 movie rental late fee should count toward this goal, but I’m going to count it anyway! 1 week ago

College debt is a really big problem for a lot of people. I really don’t want to be in my 30’s and still paying off student loans. My goal is to live on the cheep for some time until I make a really solid dent. 4 weeks ago

$1,000 down; $500 to go. 1 month ago

Paid off almost $11k since last June. I should be able to chip away at another $1k-$2k before June of this year, so that’ll bring the total for the year to $12k-$13k. I’ve got a bunch of stuff to sell on eBay. I think I can get $500 – $700 for all of it, which would hopefully get the total close to $14k by June. I’d like to find an extra $1k somewhere—maybe with a side job someplace. I’m not sure how that would work… I’ll have to look into it.

Looking at this in a naive way, it’ll take about 10 years to pay down all this debt. It really shouldn’t take that long though, since as I pay off credit cards I’m making bigger and bigger payments towards the balance. By the time I get all the cards paid off, I’ll only have student loans left. By that time, the interest on those loans should be about $300/month, and I’ll have something like $2400 or so to put towards them, which means I should retire about $20k or more per year on the student loans. At that point it’ll still take two and a half or three years to pay it down. 3 months ago

Been thinking about this a lot lately. What keeps me up at night is my monstrous debt. Will be nice to have it gone. 3 months ago

I’m not sure what to do with my debt as it’s going no where now that I’m unemployed and unable to pay anything but minimum payments. I’m considering bankruptcy, but it’s a tough choice to make – keep paying my bills and never pay them down, or declare bankruptcy and never again be able to take out a loan for the rest of my life and forever be discriminated against by prospective employers when they pull my credit report. 4 months ago

I am still chipping away at the debt!

I had a major set-back when my husband and I bought some furniture on a credit card. Now I am working on paying this off…again!

But I’m focusing on this! 4 months ago

I’ve let my finances get totally out of control and have resolved to address this in 2013.
I have around £5k debt – 1st thing is to get a job that pays more so I can actually begin to pay things off. 5 months ago