Thursday, January 29, 2009

Student Loans - Paid In Full

Today I could have bought a new car. Instead, I paid off my student loans.

When reviewing my finances this week with some new money management software, it became blatantly clear how much money I was losing in interest each month I kept my student loans. No long-term CD or savings account could come close to beating the interest I paid to the Student Loan People and to Campus Partners. So today, I paid them off and am debt free for the first time in five-and-a-half years. It's a pretty good feeling.

Goodbye Yaris, hello CTA.

(For the record, I was not considering buying a car--it's just an interesting comparison)

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