https://www.professional-mothering.com/2014/05/graduating-debt-free.html Welcome to professional Mothering Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:40:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.professional-mothering.com/2014/05/graduating-debt-free.html#comments/107 Mon, 19 May 2014 23:05:42 +0000 #comment-107 Becki's comment:
I love this post! My husband and I graduated debt free too! People think we were just "lucky", but really… we just had to be creative. I lived at home the first two years of school (free room & board) and worked my tail off to pay for school. The third year, I moved in with a friend, whose husband was in the military. She didn't want to be alone, and the military paid for rent, etc. I agreed to buy all groceries & pay half the utilities. It was $300/month. I could afford that! My husband worked full time during the day and took night classes (part time). After abot 60 credits were done, his parents offered for us to move in with them (we had two young kids), he worked his tail off and we saved for 15 months. We also sold our condo (we only needed $2000 for down payment, which we got from wedding gift money & sold it three years later making $20,000… talk about investment!). Between that and the money saved at his parents, we moved out into a TINY apartment and he became a full time student, no working for either of us. Baby three came. He finished in 1.5 years (taking summer classes). He did have a student loan before we moved in with his parents, but we paid it off before he went back to school to finish. I tried working here and there, but I couldn't balance work & family, so we decided to be a POOR family instead 🙂 I love hearing about other people's stories! Thanks for sharing.

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