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I Paid Off $69K In Student Debt On Less Than $20 An Hour: Here's Exactly How I Did It

I was once told I’d be paying off my student debt for the rest of my life. That turned out to be completely wrong, but getting to that point wasn’t glamorous. It was built on a series of very unsexy decisions.

By Anna Livia Brady4 min read
Pexels/Mikhail Nilov

I've always been naturally frugal. I was the kid who saved over a hundred dollars in my piggy bank, only to try to give it all away at eleven years old. Generous? Sure. Wise? Not exactly. I didn't understand why my teacher gave the money back to my parents—couldn't the school use it somehow? Looking back, it was one of my first lessons in stewardship, something I wouldn't fully understand until much later.