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COVID Finances Update - August 2020

maezee @maezee (41985) • United States 10 Aug 20

Hi! How are things? I wanted to do my monthly "finances" check in. Since COVID, I have been "re-learning" how to handle my money, since my entertainment and traveling has been limited. Before this began, I had a good amount of a...

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COVID Finances Check In - July

maezee @maezee (41985) • United States 6 Jul 20

How's it going? It's Monday here in my world. Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. I wanted to post a little "COVID finances update", to keep myself on track and keep track of the debt I am working on paying down. My goal...

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Message from a bill collector!

billcollectorshateme @billcollectorshateme (68) • United States 21 Dec 13

Earlier this week a bill collector called and left a prerecorded message on my phone. This is a description of how I handled it! http://www.bubblews.com/news/1840056-message-from-a-bill-collector

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Another classic example of drowning student debt

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 6 Jun 12

A friend of mine, who was studying in chiropractic for a full 4 years. Now graduating with a full student debt of himself. It was amounted to over $100,000, and this business chiropractic wasn't as good as it seems to be promised....

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Student debts infected many people who graduated

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 4 Jun 12

There were hundred of those articles detailed how many graduated, or newly graduated infected with student debts. The amount to be estimated around $3 to 4 billion. People are just struggling with it. Some simply can't get a...

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Watch out those scholarship and better student loan scam

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 17 Oct 11

When my cousin was looking for a better scholarship, and student loan option, there is a scam pops up in his mail, which he share with us, and ask our opinion about it. I think that is total scam, because they will ask for a one...

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Student loan just plague over thousands of people who pursue better future

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 1 Oct 11

We all understood that in order to achieve better future, we first have to have better education as our basic step stone to the better future. But with education, the cost just getting expensive and more expensive every year. A...

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Studen Loan Frustration

derlilaStern @derlilaStern (1756) • United States 6 Aug 11

Let me start off by saying that I am not an average student. Like many people, I did go straight from high school to college. I graduated 4 years later with a Bachelor's. I was very lucky, my parents were able to help me out...

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Student loan debt, a big killer

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 15 Feb 11

A regular customer to the restaurant I work at told me that he has huge student loan debt. Although he finished all the courses on Chiropractic, what he earning now just wasn't enough to pay back his student loan a couple years...

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divalounger @divalounger (6182) • United States 18 Dec 10

Hi there! I am currently under an IBR on my Sallie Mae student loans and I am wondering if anyone else has tried out this program and what they think. This will be my second year coming up --- As I mak my payments each month, I...

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I Hate Student Loan.

midnightstarr @midnightstarr (29) • Canada 26 Sep 10

Hello Everyone, I am from Canada, and like most North Americans, I have to pay to go to University. Now I have to mention that I am in my 30s and I want to change careers. I already have Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama. After...

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Is student loan a practical choice?

gicolet @gicolet (1702) • United States 24 Aug 10

I'm kind of worried for my daughter who is a straight A student and is currently on 11th grade. She's so looking forward to go to college but I don't have enough savings for her. I've heard nightmare stories about student loans....

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The biggest money mistake?

puccagirl @puccagirl (7294) • Israel 3 Aug 10

Even the best of us make mistakes when it comes to our finances, and it's a way to learn and be more clever and responsible with your money in the future. So I am curious to hear: What has been your biggest money mistake so...

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Would Sally Mae be the ultimate option for student loan?

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 9 Jun 10

With the rising of education cost, you might either choose a federal loan with better interest rate, or else, there is a popular website specialize in student loan; Sally Mae. I never borrow money from the credit union or bank,...

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How will you use your student loan?

ankitsoldak @ankitsoldak (241) • India 15 Feb 10

I saw may guys misuse their student loans and many utilize their student loans. If I was having a student loan . I would use it very wisely. How would you use your student loan?

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Co-Signing on Loan

aliboo @aliboo (39) • United States 18 Jul 09

Ok according to my husband's school he needs more student loan. We applied for financial aid, and his public loan, [not sure how much he is getting as yet] now his school is pushing for him to apply for a private loan, which he...

have you ever availed a student loan?

tamildude3 @tamildude3 (409) • India 11 Apr 09

Hi, Have you people ever availed a student loan? If so how succesful are you in repaying it?

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Do you borrow from student loan or your parents pay for you?

clorissa123 @clorissa123 (4926) • United States 19 Mar 09

Are you a smart student, who always make above 3.0 GPA score in college? If so, you definitely qualify for the Hope Scholarship. If not, do your parents willing to pay for your tuition and book fees? Fortunately, during my 4 years...

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God, I Hate Being Lied To...

twoey68 @twoey68 (13627) • United States 29 Jan 09

This afternoon I was so ticked off I thought I was going to blow a blood vessel! As some of you know, several months ago I set up payments to pay back my student loan. The guy at the student loan talked to me and explained that if...

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Taxes and student loan repayment

MissyK @MissyK (52) • United States 28 Jan 09

Okay, I'm pretty naive to this sort of thing. I would appreciate any confirmation or advice regarding my situation. I graduated from college towards the end of 2007. I did not attend college in 2008 so my parents cannot claim me...