How to Waste all Your Money on a Giant Banana!

Have you ever wanted to win at a game so bad or just prove somebody wrong that you just kept insisting? I'm sure we've all been there before, or even gone so far in an argument to finally realize you are wrong even though you were so confident you were right? The following man may have just taken this to the next extreme, one that I would hope nobody would ever do: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=9085164 Yes,...

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Weekly Spending - 4/21/13 - 4/27/13

I'm going to try doing a post every week that features how much I've spent and what exactly I've spent it on (to a certain amount of detail). I feel like being able to stare my finances right in the face will help me cut down on my spending, so I can put that money towards my ultimate goal: paying off all these stupid loans! At the end of each month, I will try to do...

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My Current Assets and First Steps

I figured that another good way to start off would be to currently say what I actually DO have, maybe also a slightly more positive topic for myself too! In high school and throughout college, I tried to save as much as possible. I paid off my car in full and I have never carried a balance on my credit card. I now own a rewards credit car that I put almost everything on...

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Posted in Retirement

Starting A Monthly Budget

In order to figure out how fast I can pay off my loans and how much money I can allocate to actually paying them, I figured a good idea would be to create a monthly budget to see what I absolutely have to pay each month when it comes to my income vs. spending. Having a budget right in front of me (as well as keeping track of weekly expenses on entertainment and other things)...

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Who I Am and How I Got Here

In my first post, I really just wanted to give an overview of my current student loans and maybe that was actually more for myself as opposed to you - the readers of this blog. Well, now I am going to tell you a little bit (maybe a lot of bit) about myself. I'm currently 23 years old, recently graduated from school last May. I currently live in the Northeast, and I will...

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The Beginnings of a Journey

Where to start? That's a question I've been asking myself pretty often and one that I will be trying to tackle throughout the course of this blog. I have a huge amount of student debt, one that makes me cringe and nervous to look at as I make the payments for these loans. My eventual goal is to become financially independent as soon as possible, hopefully sometime much...

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