Starting the Dig Towards Being Debt Free
Last week Colton and I made the conscious decision to pay off our student loan debt as fast as possible. For the next two years we will be making major sacrifices, but we are going to take it one step at a time. We had big plans to start a family this year, but we also want to buy a house and have me stay-at-home to raise our kids. It's a huge blow to our dreams to hit pause on our lives, but nothing we want will be feasible with the amount of debt we are in. We had no idea what we were doing when we were 18 years old and headed to college; we just signed away on the promissory notes without thinking twice! Now, looking back at those days, we realize how young and stupid we were. But, what's done is done and it's an emergency now. $73,587.43 in student loan debt is not a joke, and we have decided to pause our life to get this debt off our plate and out of our minds for good. The journey is going to be tough and painful at times as we have to deny invites to go out to ea...