Think I’ll feel even better about it once the student loan organization posts the payment, but due in part to a sudden reckoning by family re: support to date and capacities today, I was able to pay off the last bit of my loans without screwing up my immediate need finances.
10 years in the making, lol. Just kinda feel like shouting this into the void, despite faithfully making the payments it still never really felt like this day would ever come.
No real fault of their own, but my parents weren’t really able to support me much when I decided to go to uni. So the loan amount reflects both school and living costs, supplemented with (an admittedly pretty great, all things considered) part time job. That and once they were better established, my sibling required much more immediate and intensive support anyway (long story, it was a pretty bad situation). Living with them wasn’t an option (posted elsewhere).
It was a very weird but appreciated call this weekend - my mom’s pretty blunt so it was literally:“Hello?” “How much do you have left on your student loans” “Uh, $X? Why?” “I’m sending you money, some now and some next month.” “Wow, ok, thank you?” “Just send me a reciept so I know it went to your loan. Love you!” click
I blame the planets aligning this weekend, 'cause at this point that’s all I have to go on aside some very hand-wavy “we were thinking about what we’ve done and what we can do recently” statements, lol. Still a very, very nice thing for them to do, I’m super appreciative. Was just kind of a shock.