In February of this year, I owed $80K in private student loans, a motorcycle loan, a car loan, and credit card debt. As of Oct 1st, I owe $31k, and being without the Lexus and Ducati have not negatively affected my happiness. In fact, I'm happy to see the debt decline so quickly. About two weeks ago, I took on a 20hr/week job in addition to my 40hr/week job in order to pay the remaining debt off as fast as possible. By April 2014 that $31k will hopefully be $0!!
Making these changes would have been far more difficult without the support of this great blog and community!