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🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today |
0:06.0 | Dakota is in Dallas hi Dakota welcome to the ramsie show hi dave thanks for taking my call |
0:12.5 | how are you better than we deserve what's up in your world hey so I am 27 years old I am |
0:20.6 | making around $76,000 a year between my full-time job and a part-time job that I picked up. |
0:26.1 | Cool. |
0:26.5 | I am fortunate to not have any credit card debt, which is great, and I'm very thankful for that, |
0:31.6 | but I am sitting around $45,000 in debt between my student loans and a car loan. |
0:39.4 | My student loans are around $31,000 across five loans with my highest interest rate at 6.6%. |
0:45.6 | And then my car have about $14,000 left at a 3.79% interest rate. |
0:50.9 | So I'm sitting around $6,600 in my savings account, and I followed along with |
0:57.9 | the show and hearing, you know, the goal of having $1,000 in savings is great. However, having |
1:04.1 | that little amount also gives me a lot of anxiety, thinking of, you know, random things I could |
1:09.4 | come up here and there, car breaks down, you know, extra expenses, things like that. |
1:13.8 | So I guess my question is with my lowest student loan being around $3,000, technically I do have a savings account to just start, you know, knocking that out right away while still having a little over $3,000 left in the account. |
1:26.2 | So I guess the question is, should I plan to start drawing from that savings account |
1:30.4 | to start knocking those student loans out in the car out, paying extra there, |
1:35.0 | or should I leave that savings account alone, look at refinancing? |
1:38.9 | I'm not sure. |
1:40.0 | How deeply are you willing to cut your lifestyle and how many hours are you willing to work to where you could do this in one year? |
1:48.7 | Yeah, so. |
1:50.4 | 46, what do you say? |
1:51.9 | 41,000, right? |
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