My H has one student loan left that he is paying on. He kept track of the balance on mint.com. A year ago he upped the payment so that we are paying $500 a month towards the loan. He hardly ever goes on mint because it won't load a few things on there like our mortgage so it is an incomplete financial picture which is frustrating. At some point last year he determined the loan was going to paid off spring 2014.
We are having a baby in March and it was going to be so nice to have that $500 a month probably to put towards paying our one car loan faster. Also I am considering SAH.
He went on mint today and told me the loan won't be paid off until April 2015!!!! He said he thinks he read the year wrong or something to that affect. So it is nearly $9000 balance when we were thinking $3500. I am pissed. He must have been really wanting to see that loan paid off sooner and saw what he wanted to see I just don't understand how he could make this mistake. He is an engineer and his math skills are stronger than mine you would think he would do some figuring in his head and not leave it up to the computer. My H is in charge of paying the joint bills and his student loan and now I feel like I want to take over because he is not taking the budget as seriously as I would like.