{ MASTERPOST } Everything You Need to Know about How to Pay off Debt
Understanding debt:
Let’s End This Damaging Misconception About Credit Cards
Season 2, Episode 10: “Which Is Smarter: Getting a Loan? or Saving up to Pay Cash?”
Dafuq Is Interest? And How Does It Work for the Forces of Darkness?
Investing Deathmatch: Paying off Debt vs. Investing in the Stock Market
How to Build Good Credit Without Going Into Debt
Dafuq Is a Down Payment? And Why Do You Need One to Buy Stuff?
It’s More Expensive to Be Poor Than to Be Rich
Making Decisions Under Stress: The Siren Song of Chocolate Cake
How Mental Health Affects Your Finances
Paying off debt:
Kill Your Debt Faster with the Death by a Thousand Cuts Technique
Share My Horror: The World’s Worst Debt Visualization
The Best Way To Pay off Credit Card Debt: From the Snowball To the Avalanche
The Debt-Killing Power of Rounding up Bills
A Dungeonmaster’s Guide to Defeating Debt
How to Pay Hospital Bills When You’re Flat Broke
Ask the Bitches Pandemic Lightning Round: “What Do I Do If I Can’t Pay My Bills?”
Slay Your Financial Vampires
Season 4, Episode 3: “My credit card debt is slowly crushing me. Is there any escape from this horrible cycle?”
Case Study: Held Back by Past Financial Mistakes, Fighting Bad Credit and $90K in Debt
Student loan debt:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Student Loans
Ask the Bitches: “The Government Put Student Loans in Forbearance. Can I Stop Paying—or Is It a Trap?”
How to Pay for College without Selling Your Soul to the Devil
When (and How) to Try Refinancing or Consolidating Student Loans
Ask the Bitches: I Want to Move Out, but I Can’t Afford It. How Bad Would It Be to Take out Student Loans to Cover It?
Season 4, Episode 4: “I’m $100K in Student Loan Debt and I Think It Should Be Forgiven. Does This Make Me an Entitled Asshole?”
The 2022 Student Loan Forgiveness FAQ You’ve Been Waiting For
2023 Student Loan Forgiveness Update: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Our Final Word on Student Loan Forgiveness
Avoiding debt:
Ask Not How Much You Should Save, Ask How Much You Should Spend
How to Make Any Financial Decision, No Matter How Tough, with Maximum Swag
Your Yearly Free Medical Care Checklist
Two-Ring Circus
Status Symbols Are Pointless and Dumb
Advice I Wish My Parents Gave Me When I Was 16
On Emergency Fund Remorse… and Bacon Emergencies
Should You Increase Your Salary or Decrease Your Spending?
Don’t Spend Money on Shit You Don’t Like, Fool
The Magically Frugal Power of Patience
The Only Advice You’ll Ever Need for a Cheap-Ass Wedding
The Most Impactful Financial Decision I’ve Ever Made… and Why I Don’t Recommend It
3 Times I Was Damn Grateful for My Emergency Fund (and Side Income)
Buy Now Pay Later Apps: That Old Predatory Lending by a Crappy New Name
Credit Card Companies HATE Her! Stay Out of Credit Card Debt With This One Weird Trick
Ask the Bitches: Should I Get a Loan Even Though I Can Afford To Pay Cash?
The Bitches vs. debt:
I Paid off My Student Loans Ahead of Schedule. Here’s How.
I Paid off My Student Loans. Now What?
Hurricane Debt Weakens to Tropical Storm Debt, but Experts Warn It’s Still Debt
The Real Story of How I Paid Off My Mortgage Early in 4 Years
Case Study: Swimming Upstream against Unemployment, Exhaustion, and $2,750 a Month in Unproductive Spending
That’s all for now! We try to update these masterposts periodically, so check back for more in… a couple… months??? Maybe????
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Well since I'm slerpdeprived and thinking about "what's worse than two parents with issues? THREE parents with issues"
The interesting thing about the "Cain/Abel are Lucifer's child" theories is that genetically speaking it doesn't even matter. The children are made of Eve's egg and Lucifer's sperm. Eve was made from Adam's rib (assuming that the show will follow that canon?), she's made from him DNA, she's genetically his clone.
So Cain/Abel COULD be tested for the parenthood test thing and chances are they'll always match with Adam since they'll match with Eve.
So if it were to be used as a type of "gotcha, not my real dad" Adam probably wouldn't acknowledge it because not only did he raise them in life, the DNA test matches with him too.
Nevermind that he only knew his kids (who either died and went to hell, or were cursed to wander and lived for centuries, had nomad kids etc, THEN died and went to hell, assuming that that's where Cain is ofc) for like 0.05% of their existence.
Which btw, thinking about the weight and realistic importance of familial bonds forged in earth is very interesting in the context of the afterlife, especially when it comes to ancient souls. I would care who my mom/dad was in 50 years, 150 years, perhaps 500 years, but would I care in 1000 years? I suppose I would acknowledge them in title but after centuries of being an independent adult, wouldn't that change the perceived hierarchy in pretty much any relationship?
That was a tangent but it does go back to what I was originally saying:
Really it's in Cain and/or Abel's best interest that such a test is never taken. ALL it would accomplish is earn them another adult with baggage in their lives and who wants that when you're essentially as old as your human parents (give it take 5 to 20 years depending on how you think the whole Eden thing played out), as old as agriculture, older than civilization etc.
(that's of course grounds for conflict which could be interesting... You're one half of the oldest pair of tragic twins in the history of humanity, you've been a soul for longer than you were human, you kind of have other things going on... Why are your earthly parents still beefing with the devil? In true "I'm an adult and it's made me very judgemental of my parents' unaddressed immaturity", they should be like. Literally who cares. Dude I mean Dad (Adam) are you SURE you don't want to try therapy?)
Like really their only motivation may be to have a claim to the throne of hell or something but assuming that hell laws work as they do in human culture, Eve's kids would be "bastards" so they wouldn't be next in line.
If not political power, there's always the possibility of fucking up spectacularly with a series of bad deals and now they really need to have access to the Morningstar funds or be in the will or something, but hm idk. On the fence about this idea. I suppose it could be executed in an interesting way.
I'm so tired I feel like this post got away from me. No conclusion! Just more aimless rambling in the tags
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Hi Bitches! I think you wrote a piece a while back about investing vs paying off debt, and based on current market volatility I've been focusing on paying down my mortgage. To make sure I'm actually making a solid assessment here, does it make sense that the power of compounding interest means extra principal payments fairly early in the loan term are approximately doubling my money over time? I.e. I pay 2k in early principal and it both knocks out that principal amount *and* also saves a bit over 2k in interest I would have had to pay. Or is either my brain or my spreadsheet messing up here?
Neither your brain nor your spreadsheet is messing up! You're right: if you can make extra payments to the principal in the early days of your debt, it will benefit you the most in the long run. So knocking down that principle as quickly as possible is a very wise thing to do if you can afford it!
Here's more for those who don't know how the math works:
Kill Your Debt Faster With the Death by a Thousand Cuts Technique
Investing Deathmatch: Paying off Debt vs. Investing in the Stock Market
The Debt-Killing Power of Rounding up Bills
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