Educational Loan Consolidation
Monday, January 10, 2011
Educational Loan Consolidation Frustrations
I think that when it comes to debt, loans, and things like educational loan consolidation most of us feel like this man looks; helpless, hopeless, frustrated, depressed, despairing. We wonder if we will ever get out, we wonder if we can stay out of debt once we get there, and a lot of us wonder how on earth educational loan consolidation could possibly help us at this point anyway. Well the good news is that it can and it will. Obviously how much it helps will depend on you and on your individual situation, but for some people educational loan consolidation can be the thing that helps them out of the hole they've been stuck in. For some people it can be the thing that starts the upward trend flowing again in their life.
Don't let your despair or depression or frustration keep you from trying. What is the worst thing that trying can do to you? It can keep you from getting as much as you had hoped from your educational loan consolidation. But wasn't it at least worth the chance that it would (a question you had better make sure you ask yourself afterwards, and one that you should learn from too).
And once you have started to try, don't give up part of the way through the process. If you never finish it you could find yourself wondering what if it had worked, what if I hadn't give up and it had been the thing that could have saved me? You never know unless you try. So try educational loan consolidation. It sounds so big and scary at first, but once you've had a chance to get used to the idea you understand why educational loan consolidation is the opposite of scary. It can take big scary debt and make it something smaller and much more manageable.
And once you have finished the process of pursuing educational loan consolidation, be proud of yourself. Even if it doesn't work out, even if nothing ever comes of it, you should be proud of yourself that you did it, that you had the strength and courage to persevere in the face of great adversities and overwhelming foes. You faced down educational loan consolidation and did not lose. You should be proud of your persistence, proud of your hard work, be proud of anything and everything that you can think to be proud of. In difficult times that is an especially important thing to do. Be proud of the schooling that your educational loan got you.
And, even if the answer is no, if you think it will help you can try for educational loan consolidation all over again if you think it would help, if you think it would make things any different for you. Never give up.
Educational Loan Consolidation Explained with Play-Doh
This is a cool and interesting idea, using play dough to explain educational loan consolidation. Don't you wish they had taught that way in your school, so you would've gotten more for those bucks that you're now paying back (and most likely with interest)? In fact, I think there should be a lot more videos like this on youtube explaining many more complicated and confusing concepts like educational loan consolidation. This could help a lot of us non-math-brained people to understand these concepts, and by understanding we could live much saner, more secure lives with (and hopefully soon without) our debts.
Of course, I always thought of educational loan consolidation as something more like squishing it all into a big ball of play dough and making it easier that way by making it one big fat lump that could be eliminated at an easier pace. Not sure where I obtained that strange idea. Possibly from the way we used to clean the toys in my room as a child; make a huge pile in the middle of the room and then get rid of it (hopefully by cleaning everything up, kind of the way you're supposed to handle educational loan consolidation, or so I thought).
But the man in this video explains it all a little different (but rather than me trying to explain it all and muddling the whole idea of educational loan consolidation for you, just watch it). Apparently youtube viewers were rather divided as to whether or not this was helpful. I can't help but wonder if the detractors were a bunch of math geeks who weren't happy with his oversimplification of educational loan consolidation. Let's be honest, it happens sometimes. Sometimes a lot, actually.
So if you have a lot of educational loan debt, or a lot of interest that has or is accruing, if you aren't sure how you're going to be able to pay it all back or keep up on payments, in fact if you have any questions period, why don't you get a hold of somebody who knows and start asking questions about educational loan consolidation. Try to find someone understanding, sympathetic, but also knowledgeable, practical, intelligent, and experienced in educational loan consolidation. Most likely you will end up with some person who is a mix of these things, as people often are, but stick with it if you can. If you have to find someone else to help you don't give up. Keep looking, keep going, and don't settle for living your whole life in debt. You can do it!
Stafford Loan Educational Loan Consolidation
Many, if not most Americans that chose higher education will end up at one point or another requiring an educational loan. This can often help people accomplish a goal or a dream that they would not otherwise be able to accomplish, but before you receive that federal loan money, or whatever kind of loan is available to you that you choose, make sure you know all of your repayment options and the interest. One of these options is educational loan consolidation. Trust me, this is the kind of thing that you will need to know later.
Educational loan consolidation is an important thing for a lot of people now, as many people right now have found themselves in debt from credit cards, the IRS, and perhaps lingering or new educational loan debt as well. Debt consolidation has been marketed for a while by several companies, but perhaps not everyone thinks about educational loan consolidation as an option to help them get out of debt. But it is definitely something worth looking into.
Also, it could be something that people could look into offering as a service, if there are not yet very many companies dealing with educational loan consolidation. I'm sure that it's something that people need, I'm sure there's a market for educational loan consolidation. While I'm no business woman, and definitely no entrepreneur, and I don't understand exactly how a business would make money off of educational loan consolidation, if other companies are using debt consolidation to make money, then surely this could be a reasonable venture for some company to embark on (especially if there are not yet many other companies doing educational loan consolidation, though I am not absolutely certain about that).
In this society, where almost everyone who can goes to college, and many of us must spend years working to pay off the debt from it, there should be no shame in having to employ some educational loan consolidation to repay some of that. I'm sure that those feelings are lessening as the generations come and go and the social climate changes, and I'm also pretty sure that in a lot of ways that is a good thing. As our culture evolves perhaps our judgments of others will too. And perhaps as we judge and are judged less we will judge less those with debt who require educational loan consolidation. Good luck and good fortune!
Educational Loan Consolidation EdFed
Educational loan consolidation is something that is important but not always used enough, not taken advantage of enough. I only had one education loan, and I did not have to take advantage of educational loan consolidation, fortunately, because I managed to have it payed off before I was out of school. And since it was a federal Stafford loan it wasn't accruing interest yet by the time I payed it off. I am incredibly grateful that I got it payed off and that I did not get to the point of needing educational loan consolidation.
However, do not let this statement fool you; you might be wise to consider educational loan consolidation early on if you have much or multiple debts. When I say I was glad I didn't get to that point, I meant simply that I had one small loan and payed it off within a year. I didn't graduate with debt (which is partially because I didn't graduate) and so I didn't have any accrued interest on that debt. But people who take early steps like educational loan consolidation to avoid excessive accrued interest or getting far behind on their payments are incredibly wise people (and often very humble ones too).
It can be intimidating and embarrassing just to try to ask around and find out just how to take advantage of educational loan consolidation. It can take a lot of swallowing of one's pride, especially if one was raised to believe that adulthood (or, in most cases, manhood) was about one's ability to take care of oneself and one's family, specifically financially. But the lesson that we all need to learn, and as soon as possible, is that pride can cause one to fall farther and harder in the long run, than a good sized dose of humility right away.
We are fortunate now that there are more options to help us out of debt, like educational loan consolidation. Especially since we now live in a time and place in which assistance is not, cannot be, denied to us on the basis of ethnicity, gender, religion, family, background, class, etc. So do not be afraid to take advantage of this positive change in society.
Also, do not forget to take other steps to help alleviate financial problems, as well as educational loan consolidation. Budget your money, cut back on unnecessary spending where you can, save what you can, and pay back what you can when you can. Hopefully you'll be out of the hole and back into the light before you know it! Whatever happens, don't give up.
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