(Originally posted on The $76K Project on 1/18/2019) Today was a big day. Today I paid off the last $3500 on my student loan. The student loan I’ve been carting around since 2003 . Yes, this loan has been in my life for almost 16 freaking years. If it were my child, it would be a teenager practicing for its driving test. When I woke up this morning, I wasn’t planning to pay it off. I was going to wait until I was a week or two into my new job so that I could be certain of my next paycheck. But you know how sometimes you get a wild hair? That’s how it's been with this loan for the last month or so. I just need it out of my life . I need to delete it as a budget line item so that we can turn our attention to other things, like our remaining medical bills and Fortysomething’s loan. To cover it, I took the money out of our emergency fund. The e-fund isn’t empty - there’s still a cushion there - but I’d be lying if I said that the lower balance doesn’t make me nervous. I’m a worrier
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