Tell All Tuesday ~ The 49.99% Edition

As I write this, it is still barely Tuesday, although it’ll already be Wednesday by the time most of you read it ... I earn solely to debt elimination, and come closer and closer to actually being able to live ... payment to my spouse’s student loan, to bring our percent of total debt eliminated since June [more...]

Date: 2008-07-16 03:05:20

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The Rising Costs of Student Loans

It wasn’t until he graduated college in May 2008 that my friend Ben realized the depth of his student loans: $40, ... too much about the numbers as he signed loan papers at the start of each semester. The debt totals ... at the time. In the past ten years, debt levels for college graduates have more than doubled. In 1993 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 23:43:36

Tell All Tuesday: Four Figure Debt Edition

Our total non-mortgage debt is now in the four figure range ... demolition!  Yesterday I made my “new” $300 payment to my student loan.  We are still building ... like that.  I like to feel like I am making progress.  This knocked the balance of my student loan down [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:08:14

Wall Street bailout plan to include more than bad mortgage debt: Feds to absorb unpaid bar bets, inadvertently laundered postage stamps, unredeemed soda cans and insufficient tooth-fairy disbursements

Totally absurd? Think twice: In the dark of night over the weekend when most people were snoozing, the Treasury dramatically expanded its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans ... in draft language that also opened the bailout program to foreign banks with extensive loan operations [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 06:05:06

Hard Times for Student Borrowers

Kelly Lynch, a former Columbia College Chicago film and video major, is paying educational loan lender Sallie Mae $600 a month, ... loan lender suspended its student loan consolidation program in April. The policy shift left many ... about 1 percent of his total student loan debt of $60,000. Though Lynch, 21, never received [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 16:02:42

Money Match #5: Erin, Nashville Female Seeking Friends

It's been a while since we had any Money Match posts-- mainly because I totally flaked out and let a couple entries languish in the depths of my ... . This of course is my only form of debt, 54k in student loans. I have no credit card debt, no car payment, etc ... have me showing up on her front porch if I lived in Nashville! Email me at openwallet1 at [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 13:17:00

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