Hello! Here’s how Sarah DeShaw and her husband paid off $189,000 in student loans in 4.5 years. Please enjoy this debt payoff story.
Learning how much student debt my husband had was one of those moments in life that is absolutely seared into my memory.
We were on the beach. I was 20, he was 26. We were in love. We were both born and raised in the Midwest, but he moved to the coast of southern Georgia while we were dating and I had traveled to visit him.
Although we hadn’t been dating for too long at the time, we both knew this was a special connection – marriage material if we wanted.
My strategy while dating my husband was to ask as many hard-hitting questions I could – each a test of sorts to make sure I liked his character and instinctual responses.
I was trying to protect myself by asking what I felt was all the “hard stuff” up front.
He always passed with flying colors.
We’d never really talked about our financial situations and I knew we needed to start the conversation if we were thinking about joining our lives together one day.
I was nervous. I thought he might be disappointed in how much money I didn’t have. I didn’t have any debt, but I didn’t come from money either. I had maybe $7,000 to my name from working summers and around my school schedule. [Read more…]