How a lawyer paid off $200,000 in student loans in less than 2 years - Business Insider

That's when it began to feel real," she wrote in a blog post that relays her two-year journey.Eager to become student loan-free as soon as possible, Kullberg set out to pay off the full amount in just two years.To do this, she told Business Insider that she kept the "same frugal lifestyle she was living as a law student." She dedicated over 80% of each paycheck to her loan payments, which came to around $9,000 a month.Even with the good fortune of a well-paying job, the task of paying back over $200,000 in loans was both overwhelming and daunting. A key factor, she continued, was making sure that the new lifestyle of spending more for these luxuries didn't creep up on her.Kullberg told Business Insider that by refinancing her student loans, she saved thousands of dollars in the long run."I was very strategic about how I went about it in the beginning," she explained.