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POLL! How much debt do you have?
According to MSN, the average American household has $8k debt in just credit cards, and as of 2003 almost $19k per household in overall debt EXCLUDING mortgages. We spend more than we have. How do you compare?
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Re: POLL! How much debt do you have?
DH has a lot of student loans! That I don't know when we can pay off!!
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Our car debt is emberassing. On the bright side, both of our cars are worth $3k+ more than what we owe on them, so totalled, stolen, or just sold - we wouldn't be in the hole.
Now we need a new poll - how much are your car payments!? I thought ours were high ($300 per car), but have talked to a lot of people lately whose are much higher than ours!
we have less than $7k in student loan debt, and zero car payments.
the lion's share of our debt is credit cards and hospital bills.
No CC debt, and my student loans will be paid off by the state
Ours is all in the dang cars. 2 cars, a motorcycle and a travel trailer. However, DH's truck and the trailer are paid for by his work, and we actually make extra off those. 2 of the vehicles will be paid off within a year, hopefully the trailer as well.
i was telling DH the other day that maybe he ought to become a teacher for a few years if he can find a tuition reimbursement program. 10 years of $600/month payments makes me want to vomit
Yeah, mine are only $180/month. If you teach high school math or science at a low income school in Texas for 5 consecutive years they pay back $17,500. Any other subject is only $5k or something.
oh booo he'd totally teach like History. definitely NOT math. lol.
None at all. We are very un-American in our household. We consume as little as possible and enjoy cheap thrills - like reading library books.
that's cheating. :P that only works if we're calculating net-worth. this poll is just straight-up debt that's not mortgage.
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This, exactly.
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oh my gosh. I'm jealous. We pay $700/month for 20 years, then $300 a month for 10 more. THAT is backbreaking. sigh. Thankfully, it enabled him to get a great job so we can afford it.
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needless to say, we're in the 40k+ ONLY in student loans.
We have no credit card debt and no car payments. We pay out the wazoo for student loans, and that's it. Thank goodness.
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I get what you're saying, but the only reason we have majority of that cc debt is at the advice of a financial advisor. He told us it's better to make payments on something as long as the interest charged is lower than what your savings is bringing in.
Can I just say how jealous I am of those of you who don't have student loans? I'm grateful that I went to college and it allowed me to be a teacher but man, it's hard to make those payments. Especially when DH feels like his degree isn't helping him.
Good job those of you who have paid off so much! We just paid off most of our cc so we only have one now which feels good.
Ditto. I have student loans and am getting ready to incur a significant amount more. We are paying for DH's education as we go.