Give Me Back My Five Bucks

Recently, a few people have asked me how the heck I’ve been able to decrease my student loan debt in such a short period of time … so I figure I’d blog about it instead. :) My goal from the moment I first took out a student loan was to pay everything back one year after graduating. I heard stories of people taking 15 or 20 years to pay it all off, and I did not want that weight on my shoulders, even though I knew it was “good debt.” I didn’t actually start paying off my student loans until … Continue reading →

This is strange. So I bought my computer last Sunday. A few days later I went to check my Visa online. I saw that the entire $3100+ was pending, and the available credit reflected that amount. But it hadn’ t actually posted the transaction yet. That seemed normal. However, now all of that credit has been released (the CC is back to its original amount of ZERO), and I don’t have any money pending. What happened? How did it go from reflecting the purchase on my card, to no sign of the purchase at all? And according to FedEx, the … Continue reading →

I got paid today (hoorah!), so I updated my totals on the sidebar. You might notice that my line of credit is still sitting at 0% paid off. I put my new computer purchase of $3,152 onto my Visa card last week, with the intention of paying it all off with my line of credit. However, the transaction has yet to post to my Visa, so it leaves me in financial limbo at the moment. As soon as it posts, I’ll transfer the entire balance over. But since it hasn’t for this pay cheque, I’m not going to make a … Continue reading →

I’m on my boyfriend’s health care plan from his work. So the plan costs approximately $100 per month to be on for the both of us (which is still cheap as hell), but he only has to pay the taxes on the cost of the plan. So taxed at a rate of 22% (it gets taxed as income on his paycheque), it only costs us $22/month for full health care for the both of us, including dental, and a $35 deductible on prescriptions. The prescriptions alone are worth it. Anyway, the reason why I bring it up is because next … Continue reading →

I wish I knew 5 years ago that I’d want a condo eventually. I really wish I had thought things through. Planned ahead. I wish I had saved up a ridiculous amount of money, so that when I did get to the stage where I could actually afford mortgage payments, I’d be okay with the 25% down payment to avoid that nasty default insurance. But, I didn’t. So here I sit, 24 years old, twiddling my thumbs and frantically trying to save up money as fast as I can. I wish I were like my sister. For some reason she … Continue reading →