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Alternatives to Student Loans to Fund Your Education

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When I first started taking courses toward my degree, I quickly realized that the money that I’d saved up barely covered my textbooks for the year and I had to be resourceful to figure out how to come up with the cash. I wasn’t able to get student loans, which now I see as a blessing. Bursaries/Scholarships . Career Tips'

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. All of our debt was $97,000 in student loan debt. We sacrificed a lot of time together and took on a lot of stress during this time. The other part of this story is that we had to massively downsize. How much debt did you pay off?

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What Money Advice Would You Give Yourself If You Could Go Back in Time

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When I’d do things like take out student loans even though I had a full-tuition scholarship and a sweet part-time job in the university cafeteria. Me from 15 years ago would get an earful about what not to do, and advice on budgeting and saving and staying out of debt.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. medical bills, a small credit card, both of our cars, and student loans. cars, and finally our student loans. working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet.

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How to Graduate College Without Being Broke

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The same kind of over thinking tends to infect financial advice, as well, especially when it’s doled out to college students who are desperate to come up with ways to make a few extra bucks between studying for exams and balancing their social lives. Related posts: 5 Ways to Trim Your Budget For Your Child’s College Fund.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. Student Loans – Paid off $37,000. Making a budget and cutting expenses. We set our budget and lifestyle at the beginning and it hasn’t changed much even with income doubling. We are from Cincinnati, OH.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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The Skilled Investor , Editor Budgeting and Economics Little House presents The Five Tool Budgeter posted at Little House in the Valley , saying, “In baseball, a five-tool player is one who excels in some of the game’s major skills: fielding, base running, hitting for power, hitting for contact, and throwing ability.

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