Today is a good day!  Yes, it’s a Friday, but it’s also the day we paid off the smaller of my two student loans!
This is especially satisfying for me, because of what the loan represents.  When I was in college, I spent a little too much time with friends and playing madden and not enough [...]

Although it may not always be mathematically the best move, I’m all about knocking out debt.  It’s freeing as you watch those loans balances wind down, and once you can actually knock one or two loans out entirely, you can snowball those payments onto other loan principals or into savings.
Joe Sangl is the man when [...]

Not that paying bills is fun, but as we’re running the numbers for our upcoming mortgage, I realized there’s a nifty way to pay off your loan in half the time.  It’s not always possible, but if you have some room in the budget, it may be the motivation you need.
Here’s how it works.

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