student loan re-financing

[-$25,906] DDSW Considers Yet Another Student Loan Refinance. And a Milestone!

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Hey, look at that! My current balance -$25,906!

Since my last post, I forgot an additional payment that hadn’t yet processed. My servicer can be a bit slow with crediting multiple payments. Anyway, my balance is dropping! The smaller the better. Hooray 🙂

Another Student Loan Refinance?

I’m thinking about doing another refinance. Yes, another one, after the first and second times. Once I get my balance down to about 18k or so, I’m considering refinancing into another 5-year loan with another servicer. Why? Two reasons.      Read More

The Post Where I Have No Idea What My Student Loan Balance Is

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Did you participate in Black Friday / Cyber Monday or did you participate in Buy Nothing Day?

I bought one thing on Black Friday. I had no business buying anything else given my finances right now.        Read More

What’s the News? Financial Headlines this Week

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A few financial headlines caught my attention this week. Some good, others… not so much. So here they are; the good, the bad, the ugly, and the WTF?.

Good News: Retirement Savings Contributions Will Increase in 2019

It’s finally official that 401(k) employee contribution limits will rise to $19,000 in 2019. (Source: IRS)

If you are someone fortunate enough to have access to a 401(k), let alone be able to max it out, enjoy the extra $500 next year. Don’t forget to adjust your withholding settings in January.

Not to be left behind, IRAs and Roth IRAs contribution limit will increase from $5,500/year to $6,000/year. (Source: IRS)

People who max this tax advantaged space every year (I hope to be one next year), are excited about making round, even $500 monthly (or $250 semi-monthly) payments instead of the odd $458.33 monthly (or $229.16 semi-monthly) payments. Yeah, this is actually a thing that people geek out on.      Read More

[-$46,776] Re-refinancing My Student Loan and My Shrinking Opportunity Fund

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My debt is still big, but it’s not crushing me anymore!

Student Loan Re-refinance

Good news! I was able to re-refinance my loan with my current student loan company to get a lower rate. Everything went through as of yesterday and I am now the proud owner of a shiny new student loan. I don’t know if this is a common thing for student loan companies to allow or not, but I’m just glad I didn’t have to move over to a new servicer. Woot!   Read More

[-$48,446] Gaining and Losing Interest (Rates)

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New Tool

I’d been using a certain website to track my accounts to get an aggregate view of most of my balances, but it recently shut down. 😦   However, I found another site and it’s great, much better even.  🙂  I can now track all of my accounts (spending and saving) in one place, and have everything automatically updated.  Definitely an upgrade.

Using this new tool and looking at my accounts made me start thinking about ways to make improvements. 💡  So I took action. Read More