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I’ve never been good at math.

I can remember the anxiety I felt in elementary school learning my multiplication tables. I failed Algebra II in high school. Numbers have just never been my thing.

In spite of that, I’m constantly doing math in my head. Just ask Sara. She can totally tell when I’m doing math in my head. I’ll be trying to figure out how much money needs to go into a certain account, or how much I’ll need to put aside every month for a large purchase and all of a sudden I’ll go all glassy eyed and quiet. Glassy eyed and quiet = doing math in head.

So for the past year and a half a big part of the math I’ve been doing in my head has been dedicated to figuring out how long until I’m out of debt. If you read my column from a couple of weeks ago then you know that I recently did some math in my head and figured out that I was just a couple of months away from being completely debt free.

Except, as I pointed out before, I’m not good at math.

Turns out I’m officially out of debt today.

Today.

I got my tax returns (state and federal) this week, so I called in, on a whim, to see what my payoff was. I’d already done the math in my head and figured out that I still needed two more months before I could pay it all off. I guess I forgot to carry the 2 or something, though, because when the teller told me the payoff amount, it was small enough that I could pay it off in one last, large payment.

Which I just did.

So, there you go. I paid off over $15,000 in a year and a half.

I’m out of debt.