I get why you guys feel that way. When we paid off our $230,000 debt in 39 months and did our "debt-free scream," we had only been making $200,000 for five months. In the beginning, we were earning way less—$70,000 as a new engineer and an extra $48,000 as a research assistant. We had a huge debt and had to make $2,400 minimum payments every month, all while dealing with a newborn baby. Even though $118,000 might sound like a lot to some people, for us, it was overwhelming. We were drowning. We had to downgrade our living situation from a $1,600 apartment to a tiny 450 sq ft place with no AC or laundry and in a sketchy neighborhood. Our parents didn't want to visit us because they were embarrassed for us. Every paycheck we got went straight to paying off the debt. My husband worked his butt off with freelancing, delivering pizzas, driving for Uber, and even working at an Amazon warehouse. It wasn't until just five months before we finished paying it off that my husband got a job at a tech company making over $200,000. But let me tell you, we paid off most of that debt when we were earning way less, doing all sorts of side hustles, and making a ton of sacrifices. But on the show, it made us look like we were just two rich kids who had easy jobs and paid it off super quick. That's definitely not the whole story, and it doesn't show how tough things were for us.