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how quickly can i pay off my debt? HELP

heres my breakdown 60k stafford @ 6.8 90k grad plus @ 8....
drunken degenerate
  02/09/10
how do you only have 1K month total expenses? Where do you l...
gold kink-friendly mother
  02/09/10
cheap apt, car paid off, no cable (hdtv antenna), no interne...
drunken degenerate
  02/09/10
well, first you have to fight the urge to upgrade your life....
learning disabled exhilarant property black woman
  02/09/10
unless he's this dude, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ma...
Exciting dilemma cuckold
  02/09/10
Newsflash: a large proportion of the people in NYC get by wi...
learning disabled exhilarant property black woman
  02/09/10
i understand your point as far as stating a worst case scena...
Exciting dilemma cuckold
  02/09/10
i agree, five yrs within a few more months I will have pa...
Green Center Useless Brakes
  02/09/10


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Date: February 9th, 2010 3:37 AM
Author: drunken degenerate

heres my breakdown

60k stafford @ 6.8

90k grad plus @ 8.5

10k in bank at grad

ALL monthly expenses = 1k/mo

salary = 85k

i wanna blitz through this shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14063680)



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Date: February 9th, 2010 3:40 AM
Author: gold kink-friendly mother

how do you only have 1K month total expenses? Where do you live?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14063701)



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Date: February 9th, 2010 3:45 AM
Author: drunken degenerate

cheap apt, car paid off, no cable (hdtv antenna), no internet (get someone else's). i will try to stay here until my debt is completely paid off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14063727)



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Date: February 9th, 2010 10:11 AM
Author: learning disabled exhilarant property black woman

well, first you have to fight the urge to upgrade your life. This is more difficult than it seems.

Assuming you are single and living in NYC, you'll take home $55k after taxes. (If you live elsewhere, great, you'll probably take home more.)

I am going to assume your monthly expenses will also be more like $1500k/month - you have to be missing something, like health insurance or irregular expenses like travel/apparel/xmas gifts/etc. This adds up to 18k/year.

That leaves about 37k a year for you to pay down student loans. You're still looking at five years min.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14064286)



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Date: February 9th, 2010 10:34 AM
Author: Exciting dilemma cuckold

unless he's this dude, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/park_avenue_battle_8tFR0ibXl20r1KTz9wAgpI, there's no way he's living in NYC with his total monthly expenses at $1000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14064424)



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Date: February 9th, 2010 12:07 PM
Author: learning disabled exhilarant property black woman

Newsflash: a large proportion of the people in NYC get by with total monthly expenses under $1000/person.

He obviously is living very frugally - could be he's living in a shitty apartment in Harlem that he shares with 2-3 other people and subsisting on ramen from Fairway.

That said, I agree with you that he's probably not in NYC. But I used NYC numbers since that's about the upper limit for taxes and would figure the budget conservatively.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14064973)



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Date: February 9th, 2010 12:14 PM
Author: Exciting dilemma cuckold

i understand your point as far as stating a worst case scenario, but how do people live in nyc on $1000 or less a month?

8 roommates in queens?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14065012)



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Date: February 9th, 2010 10:54 AM
Author: Green Center Useless Brakes

i agree, five yrs

within a few more months I will have paid off about 150 thousand myself in about 2.5-3. My salary was higher, but so were my expenses (though I lived frugally as well).

I think you can do it, just stick to the plan, it gets easier the closer you get and the time will pass.

Plus you will get raises and shit hopefully, so who knows maybe 4-4.5 if you stay super disciplined. It's a nice bonus you already have 10,000 in the bank so you can really focus on your loans.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1217181&forum_id=2#14064565)