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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
POLL! What's your student loan debt?
Now that I'm obsessing on ditching our debt, you can probably expect a lot of debt-related posts/polls from me over the next few days/weeks, maybe even months.
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Re: POLL! What's your student loan debt?
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Hmm I answered "Poll" since I'm assuming that's $0.00?
And don't be jealous. Seriously. That $0.00 got me through one whole year of college
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
Neither DH or I have any student loan debt from our undergraduate education. DH didn't finish at UT and is now finishing a degree. We're lucky that his company offers 100% tuition reimbursement and he's been able to go to school without any out-of-pocket expense or loan debt.
However, I would like to go to grad school in the next 5 - 10 years and fully expect that we'll have to take out a loan.
DH paid for eeeeeverything for 6 years of undergrad on loans: apartment, eating out, tuition, books, taking me on dates, the whole thing.
Then, he decided to go to grad school.
We just started paying them back in January (when he got his first job out of school). We paid the smallest loan in full almost immediately. Right now, we've got about 62k left to pay back.
We're on the 30 year plan. Sigh. After 20 years the payment cuts in half. We're hoping to pay it off in about 15 years (or less).
Right now we're really torn on the paying down the student loans (low low interest) or saving for the future. We're wanting to put a large percentage down on a home... so right now we're trying to save as much as possible and plan to make at least one extra loan payment a year. The way the interest works, it will take several years off.
This has made both DH and I very passionate about saving as much as possible for our future children's education. We would be in SUCH different place finacially without these huge monthly loan payments.
"The House We Built."
A journey of building the dream.
Mine is $605!!
DH's a lot, a medical school amount, that I don't even want to know!!