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\nSome people look at $26,500 in student loan debt and call it LIFE… Brian McBride on the other hand called it a challenge.\u00a0 He made it his goal to get rid of this debt in as short of time as possible.<\/p>\n
Brian, like most people, racked up most of the debt from student loans.\u00a0 He also had a $6,000 car loan at 8% interest rate. Ouch!\u00a0<\/p>\n
How did he do it with his $13\/hour salary?! Well, sometimes it takes extreme changes to make a difference in an extreme situation.\u00a0 He skipped meals, cut back expenses – cancelled cable TV and used streaming video services instead.\u00a0 He jumped on food stamps for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then he landed a job as an associate producer at CNN and doubled his salary!\u00a0 This definitely helped, but Brian still had a mountain to scale.<\/p>\n
“So I crunched the numbers and made a plan. I would spend no more than a quarter of my monthly income on essentials — rent, utilities, phone bills and groceries — and the rest would be stowed away in savings.” Brian stated.<\/p>\n
Brian scavenged the grocery store for deals and did actually eat some meals that were “expired” – eek \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 But he made it and now he is debt free!!<\/p>\n
Congrats Brian McBride!\u00a0 You are truly an inspiration!<\/p>\n
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Peace & Love,<\/p>\n
Jon<\/p>\n
The Good World News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"