Hope's Debt Update - September, 2025

I'm enroute to Georgia. It's almost wedding time!!

The hearing aids have been ordered. Actually, I have a couple of pairs ordered, going to try some cheaper ones out along with the ones prescribed by the ENT. As a result of their cost, September and October are light on debt payments and money moving into savings accounts. I'm using a borrowed pair now to make it through the weeks of my wedding trip travel. (They are on loan by ENT office.)

I had planned to get my debt update out this past week, but it seems like every time I try to access the student loan site, it's down or inaccessible. Not sure what's going on.

So I don't have my debt number, but I can tell you that I paid exactly $307 toward my students loan last month.

While I've continued to move $50 per week into my high interest savings account and $70 per week into my investment account through the month of September, I've made no additional big moves to savings.

Essentially holding onto all the cash I can in preparation for my hearing aid purchase.

As of today, I have $8,323 in my Ally account, $1,000 in my local EF, and $1,978 in my investment accounts (includes my ROTH IRA).

I mentioned in a previous post that my goal is to get $10,000 in my Ally account and then focus solely on paying off my remaining student loans. I hope to get back to that plan late in October or early in November as soon as I've paid for my hearing aids. They should be in around the middle of October when I return from Georgia.

But for the next couple of weeks...I'm going to enjoy a meandering road trip to and from Georgia, and a week in town with my girls around the wedding.

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