Tell All Tuesday - Down With Student Loans | I've Paid For This Twice Already... http://www.paidtwice.com/2008/03/11/tell-all-tuesday-down-with-student-loans/#comment-19531 Kiran Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:28:15 +0000 http://www.paidtwice.com/2008/03/11/tell-all-tuesday-down-with-student-loans/#comment-19531 Reading this and your post about subway, I have a thought. When you reach 'landmarks' in dept repayment, Go out and spend 20 dollars on food that you didn't cook. Knowing that you get a slight reward when you reach a milestone, makes it easier to be lean in the budget until you get there. As long as it isn't every month, because then it becomes part of the budget, and is that much harder to give up. You could promise yourself that once the spouse student loan is paid, you will add to the budget a category for "food not cooked by me" and that might be a great incentive. Reading this and your post about subway, I have a thought.

When you reach ‘landmarks’ in dept repayment, Go out and spend 20 dollars on food that you didn’t cook.

Knowing that you get a slight reward when you reach a milestone, makes it easier to be lean in the budget until you get there.

As long as it isn’t every month, because then it becomes part of the budget, and is that much harder to give up.

You could promise yourself that once the spouse student loan is paid, you will add to the budget a category for “food not cooked by me” and that might be a great incentive.

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