Comments on: Debt Free http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/ I'm a dad, designer, China expat and blogger Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shaun http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/#comment-2402 Shaun Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:10:38 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/10/15/debt-free/#comment-2402 Enjoy it while it lasts. Once you sign a mortgage you'll feel like your broke all over again. I pay my mortgage every two weeks and that bill is more than what I used to pay for one month's rent for an apartment. If you can have the money taken out electronically from your account. It hurts a bit less if you don't actually have to go through the torture of writing out the checks. Enjoy it while it lasts. Once you sign a mortgage you’ll feel like your broke all over again. I pay my mortgage every two weeks and that bill is more than what I used to pay for one month’s rent for an apartment. If you can have the money taken out electronically from your account. It hurts a bit less if you don’t actually have to go through the torture of writing out the checks.

]]> By: J. at the Granite Studio http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/#comment-2396 J. at the Granite Studio Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:57:47 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/10/15/debt-free/#comment-2396 I hear ya, man. When I proposed to YJ my sales pitch was something like, "I'm a graduate student in history. I can give you 6-8 years of abject poverty followed by a lifetime of genteel poverty, will you marry me?" Bless her heart, she still said, "yes." By now, I have so many student loans that the financial aid office has stopped having me sign forms. Instead they just tattoo ominous looking Chinese markings on my flesh adjacent to major organs--something about 'failure to pay may result in forfeiture...' Congrats. I hear ya, man. When I proposed to YJ my sales pitch was something like, “I’m a graduate student in history. I can give you 6-8 years of abject poverty followed by a lifetime of genteel poverty, will you marry me?”

Bless her heart, she still said, “yes.”

By now, I have so many student loans that the financial aid office has stopped having me sign forms. Instead they just tattoo ominous looking Chinese markings on my flesh adjacent to major organs–something about ‘failure to pay may result in forfeiture…’

Congrats.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/#comment-2391 Ryan Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:56:50 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/10/15/debt-free/#comment-2391 @Phoebe: HEY!!! I've missed ya! And yeah, the lack of debt is nice, but the "can't drink'em like I used to" sucks. @Chris/Gricelle/Rick: Thanks guys and good luck! ;-) @Phoebe: HEY!!! I’ve missed ya! And yeah, the lack of debt is nice, but the “can’t drink’em like I used to” sucks.

@Chris/Gricelle/Rick: Thanks guys and good luck! ;-)

]]> By: Phoebe http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/#comment-2390 Phoebe Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:52:04 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/10/15/debt-free/#comment-2390 Being old has its advantages!!! Being old has its advantages!!!

]]> By: Pandapassport http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/#comment-2387 Pandapassport Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:27:30 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/10/15/debt-free/#comment-2387 I'm hoping to pay off the last of mine at the end of the month. Fingers crossed... Congrats man. I’m hoping to pay off the last of mine at the end of the month. Fingers crossed…

Congrats man.

]]> By: Gricelle http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/#comment-2385 Gricelle Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:56:05 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/10/15/debt-free/#comment-2385 Congratulations!! God how I wish I could say the same. I still have to pay off my student loans for a couple of more years. Congratulations!! God how I wish I could say the same. I still have to pay off my student loans for a couple of more years.

]]> By: Chris http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/debt-free/#comment-2384 Chris Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:48:54 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/10/15/debt-free/#comment-2384 Sweet freedom. Congratulations on doing what so many of us only dream of. Maybe I'll get to that student loan when the RMB starts being worth something... Sweet freedom. Congratulations on doing what so many of us only dream of. Maybe I’ll get to that student loan when the RMB starts being worth something…

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