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No-Spend February! ?! | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. February 1, 2016. So I’m pretty sure there was not a new year’s “Happy 2016! This is all the amazing things I’m going to do this year! 8221; blog post yet. I missed the January/new year’s update, and here we are in February already. My latest student loan balance today was $66,872.99. Today I deleted the Amazon app off of my iPhone. I’ve got to revisit our budgets again. 2016 will continue our adventures as homeowners (...
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from $95k to $55k…is this real life? | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. From $95k to $55k…is this real life? May 1, 2016. Work AKA the bacon. It’s been a hectic (but quiet on the blog front) 3 months, and here we are in May already. I missed the updates for March and April, and amazingly we are looking at over 41% of my student loans paid off since the birth of this blog! Here are the monthly outstanding amounts that have gone down since the last update:. March 1, 2016. $66,528.05. Unfortun...
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House bought and we are hitched! Now what? | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. House bought and we are hitched! October 6, 2015. We did it. We really did it! We closed on our house on August 31st and got to move in and hang out in the final weeks leading up to the wedding. It was pretty amazing. The beach wedding! So much love and happiness! Everything has been great! We are both back at work for the next week and a half, and then it will be honeymoon time in North Carolina. Decrease by $330.80.
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2017: A New Hope…more updates, and a no-shopping challenge. | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. 2017: A New Hope…more updates, and a no-shopping challenge. January 9, 2017. 2016 blogging was kind of a bust. I mean UGH, I blogged twice! February and May. That’s it! What is also embarrassingly pathetic is that credit card debt got a bit out of control with some unexpected summer expenses, and then I just had the mentality of “f* k it, whatever! 8221; Life has been very stressful. Retail therapy! 1 Go back to bloggin...
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FUCCD! | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. At the beginning of November 2012, I made a very concerted effort to tackle over $13k of credit card debt, calling it “Project FUCCD! 8221; for “F*ck U, credit card debt! 8221; and successfully managed to stomp it down to zero by the end of August 2013. I attribute a lot of my success to committing to blog about it once a month, on the first Friday of each month. (First Fridays FUCCD! Now that Project FUCCD. 8/18/2013: ...
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the numbers | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. Student loan balances as of September 5, 2013 (aka Birth of the Blog! ACS student loan: $962.42 @5.000%. Sallie Mae Federal loans: $53,910.876 @4.625%. Sallie Mae Private loans: $40,153.58 @3.250%. GRAND TOTAL: $95,026.87. The depressing thing is that when I finished graduate school in May of 2006 (7 years ago! Which makes me feel like I actually made a dent on the estimated original $109k. Enter your comment here.
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task list | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. Battling against Sallie Mae, one task at a time! Or actually…three at a time. When one is crossed off, another is born. 1 Update the student loan numbers. ( completed 9/19/13. 2 Import Sallie Mae loan accounts into Mint.com. ( completed 9/27/13. 3 Get an updated credit score and credit report. 4 Check on running shoe refund. 5 Sell the Keurig machine. 2 thoughts on “ task list. August 4, 2014 at 12:42 pm. I hope youR...
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October & November update. going sub-68! | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. October and November update. going sub-68! December 1, 2015. November 1st totals: $67,879.21. That’s a decrease of $333.08 (another $557.14 in minimum payments, with $224.06 of that in interest). December 1st totals: $67,537.80. Decrease of another $341.41 (another $557.14 in minimum payments, $215.73 in interest). Overall, I’ve paid off 28.93% of my original debt and $27,489.07. Since the birth of this blog! Of course ...
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Jocelyn | The Great Bacon Payoff
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The Great Bacon Payoff. 8230;bringing home the bacon to stomp down the student loans. All posts by Jocelyn. Lover of bacon, hater of student loans! View all posts by Jocelyn →. 2017 $ $ Goal. February 6, 2017. I realized recently why I have not been able to stick to budgets very well in this past year. I don’t really have a concrete $ $ goal any more. In late 2012 ( the FUCCD days. By X date. When I landed my current job 2 years ago, it came with a sweet student loan payoff helper I negotiated. Like a ne...