It has been 24 months since we got serious about paying off our $127,229 worth of debt, and this debt payoff journey just hit a milestone I have been dreaming about for two years: we officially broke the six-figure mark. We have paid off $100,479 so far! Woot woot! Hands in the air. When we…
$110,427.87. To the exact cent. That’s how much debt Erin and Steve were staring at in March of 2016 — student loans, credit cards, a private loan, and a car loan, not even counting their mortgage. Four years and two months later, every dollar of it was gone. This debt free story of Erin and…
What would you do if $20,000 of student loans and medical bills stood between you and your dreams? For Ben and Julia, the answer was simple: get serious, make a plan, and attack it together. This debt free story of Ben and Julia’s $20,000 journey proves that even a young couple on a modest income…
Every debt free story starts with a number that feels impossible. For Kaleb Schumann, that number was $110,000 — straight out of graduate school, before he had even earned his first full-time paycheck. What makes his story worth telling is not just the number, though. It is how he crushed it: in 47 months, just…
This month I did something I probably should have done a long time ago: a full debt free journey audit. I sat down with my bank statements and logged every single debt from when we started in September 2018 until now. And I found something that stopped me in my tracks. Our total starting debt…
Twenty-two months. That is how long we have been on this debt free journey update, and I still get a little stunned every time I run the numbers: $89,979 paid off, with $37,250 left to go. We started with $127,229 of debt back in September 2018, and today the only things standing between us and…
Nineteen months into paying off debt, and we’re in a strange holding pattern. As of April, we’ve paid off $77,339 — which is still amazing — but our progress looks exactly the same as last month. The reason? COVID-19. Like everyone else, we’re in limbo, so we’ve decided to hold off this month on paying…
Brett’s debt free story of $67,000 paid under 3 years is the kind of story that stops you mid-scroll. Sixty-seven thousand dollars of debt, wiped out in under three years, on an income that started at just $29,000 a year. No lottery win, no inheritance, no six-figure salary. Just a clear plan, relentless discipline, and…