Filed under: Budget, Budget Stretchers, Coupons, Financial Goals, Student Loans | Tags: Coupons, debt payoff, Student Loans, UPromise
Did you know that even if you are done with college, you can sign up with UPromise.com?? I didn’t until recently.
With UPromise, you can link your Credit/Debit Cards to earn additional money that can be used to pay off your student loans. All kinds of purchases (dinings out, travel, general shopping), can help you earn money to pay off your student loan debt. You can also get coupon savings that will be loaded directly to your grocery/store cards.
For me, with the planning that I’ve done about coupons, their use will earn me double savings to be applied towards debt.
The first two weeks of tracking is complete. Overall it went pretty well. I ended up re-allotting some things to food. Food is my biggest budget item right now and this is an area I really need to work on. I got lazy because I’ve been sick a good chunk of the last two weeks and ended up re-assigning money from other categories to cover the eating out. But this has been a good first round of this exercise. I will continue to refine this exercise over time. Next reporting on this will be in two weeks
I started planning the next two weeks this evening. I did put the payment for Angel Food Ministries in this paycheck. As I started looking at my cupboard and the stuff I already had in the freezer. I realized I have enough food to get me most of the way through the next two weeks without buy more except for some odds and ends as well as fresh produce.
