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| Lindsay Lohan, in a still from Liz and Dick |
When we first decided to get out of debt, I thought the hardest part would be finding enough extra money in the budget to actually put a dent in our student loans. We always seemed to just break even with our income and expenditures, so I figured it was going to be tough finding more than maybe one or two hundred dollars to spare at the end of each month. That certainly wasn’t going to get us out of $100K in student loan debt any time soon.
It turns out that finding extra money wasn’t that difficult. Once we drew up our budget, got on the envelope system, and cut out most unnecessary spending, we found plenty of money to roll into our debt snowball. When we paid off our car in only a few months, I felt like we were really on a roll. And then, as we got to the bigger loans, the ones that were going to take more than just a few months to pay off, I realized I had been completely wrong about why getting out of debt is so difficult.
It’s not the money. It’s the sheer, unadulterated boredom.
