A few months before I started this blog, I was in a dire financial situation (and I didn’t even recognize it). The year was 2006, and I was a bright, bushy-tailed, naïve film student with dreams of becoming a big Hollywood… something. Truth be told, film school wasn’t going so well, and I was having […]
Net Worth Update: November 2018
When we last left our hero, a slight market downturn had derailed her attempts to reach a $100,000 net worth, dental and vision expenses were starting to pile on, and she’d slightly accelerated her predicted debt freedom date to September 2022. How has she fared in the busy November days betwixt then and now? Let […]
Net Worth Update: October 2018
This update is several days behind because I literally jetted out of town for several days the morning of the 1st (to attend Cents Positive, the first ever women’s financial independence retreat!). Then I came back to a busy work schedule that someone (read: me) also tried to pack with doctor and dentist appointments for […]
Net Worth Update: April 2018
I was gonna make an “It’s Gonna Be MAY” reference in this month’s intro, but… We’re here to talk about April so maybe let’s not with the “May” stuff just yet. Though I am a 90s kid who certainly remembers, I wasn’t that into *NSYNC at the time. Case in point: I had to look […]
Pay Your Student Loans Off Faster by Sending All Your Extra Payments to the Principal [Free Letter Template]
This is the year! If I can max out all of my tax advantaged retirement-type accounts, then I’ll start paying extra to my student loans. The problem: I’ve already been sending “extra” money to my student loans with MOHELA (my student loan servicer) each month, and they weren’t applying that “extra” payment to the loan […]