I paid off 25% of our consumer debt (consumer debt defined as “all of our debt, not counting the mortgage”) in one shot, by way of cashing out a whopping 5 weeks of vacation. The withholding is nasty on vacation cashout; I only received 60% of the gross.
This leaves me with 1 week off, and, instead of having 5 weeks of glorious shop time, I will labor for 330 hours.
The good news is that this personal loan was for *lathe tooling*, & it had the highest interest rate of all our debt at 10.1%. I still have & enjoy using all of this equipment!