In today's post and in the next few that follow, Luke and I will identify three foundation steps that have kept us grounded and focused on our end goal: paying off $57,000 in 12 months (having our student loans paid off by December 2018).For Luke and I, the biggest driving force behind our decision to get out of debt were our reasons for not…

Luke and I were over $100,000 in debt when we were married in 2015 and everyone we knew told us that we were just like everyone else. We were told that normal millennials were graduating with crazy amounts of school debt and you know what, they were right. As a result, we weren’t phased in 2015 by the fact that Sallie Mae largely owned…