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Saving for our forever home while paying off over $300,000 of student loans.
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05/05/2026

I have two student loans—a $20,000 loan that I currently pay $600 per month and then a federal loan that is close to $310,000 that I currently pay $0 on…until July that is! If we can pay off the $20,000 loan before July then the $600 can be snowballed into whatever the monthly payment ends up being instead of being tacked onto it. What do you think of my strategy?

02/05/2026

If I were looking to break into the housing market in Portland but not spend more than $450,000, this house would definitely be one that I would take a look at. It’s located in the Lents neighborhood and it’s as cute as a button! Laminate floors but with real wood underneath 👀 Even though this home had some updates, there was still a lot of original charm from the door handles to the built ins! The back yard was a great size—large enough to host a dinner party with friends but small enough not to get overwhelmed with yard work. Lents may not get as much love as other neighborhoods on the east side but it’s a hidden gem in my opinion.
$425,000
2 beds, 1 bath

Listed by .co of

25/04/2026

It’s been so much fun learning about these different types of houses! I am not an architect by ANY means so I am very open to being corrected. Of these different home types, the salt box was the one I was the most unfamiliar with! I feel like maybe they are more common on the east coast or something? It’s also fun trying to think about where in portland these different types of houses are. I think it could be fun to try to do a little scavenger hunt around portland to try to find all the different types of houses!

21/04/2026

Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I left out ranches! I love a ranch! This video was really fun to make because I learned some of the different types of houses that I see all the time! I feel like Portland is full of bungalows and craftsmen but the thing is different neighborhoods have different homes primarily! Please let me know if you’d like a deeper dive into the different types. I really enjoy all things HOUSE so follow along if you’re a fellow house lover as well!

20/04/2026

No one warned me how hard it would be to see your parents age. I think I thought I would have more time since my mom is only 57 but life has dealt her a cruel hand and her health has really declined significantly over the last 3 years. She is the caregiver for my grandma and that has been super hard on her body. Well this last week my grandma had a major fall and has been in the hospital ever since and my mom has been with her there ever since. It’s hard because I want her to take care of herself and tend to her own needs but I can also empathize with the fact that it’s never a good time to lose your mama. Anyways, I always love going to Corvallis and today was a really beautiful day to be down there. It’s definitely worth a visit!

11/04/2026

This is not financial advice so take it with a grain of salt…but I am not interested in financial advice that encourages you to deny every single pleasure in service of paying off your debt as quickly as possible. Idk about you but I think that as a human, I am capable of working towards my goals while also recognizing that occasionally spending my hard earned money on something that will bring me happiness is worth it! Because life is not promised! And while I want to be smart and make good decisions I also want to make fun memories too.

08/04/2026

If I had a dollar for the number of people who were like “if you had just worked your way through school like I did, then you wouldn’t be in this mess”, I sure would owe a lot less money on my loans. People think they are coming up with some revolutionary concept but they really have no idea that that solution just is not feasible. If you graduated with a ton of student loans and you are still trying to pay them off, I hope you know that you are not a bad person for having student debt. We live in a country that will try to commodify anything and everything and we the people are stuck paying the price!

07/04/2026

This house very much gave me the warm fuzzies🥰 I am not sure I’ll ever be able to afford a cottage in the english countryside but if I wanted those vibes in northeast portland, this would be the house for me. This house had soooo much of it’s original charm, which I am quickly realizing is something that is important to me. I loved the MCM style cabinetry in the kitchen. The bathrooms are the only thing that I would have liked to have seen updated but there was something kind of charming about how dated they were! The thing I loved the most about this house was that the living room and dining room all had south facing windows (as well as some of the upstairs bedrooms) and it just cast the warmest glow on all the wood finishes in the house. Can’t wait to see what this house goes for! I definitely would have put an offer in for it if we were on the market for a house!
✨3 bedrooms (though I spotted a possible 4th)
✨4 baths (2 half, 2 full)

03/04/2026

I’m sure there are lots of people who would say that this is stupid or that we should be more aggressive with our strategy but this was kind of a low stress way for us to make sure we were actually saving money. $10k is somewhat arbitrary and probably a bit high but we have several big ticket items come out of our account at the start of the month so we just don’t want to have to worry about our account dipping low enough to make us nervous.

01/04/2026

In a different world, perhaps I would have paid more attention to what PSLF was and tried to qualify for it from jump but…plan B will have to work, I guess!

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