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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

Family Balance Sheet

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Shannon. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? As many students do these days, we had tens of thousands of dollars of debt by the time we graduated with our Masters degrees. That was in 2008, so you might imagine how that turned out! Where are you from?

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Best of Money Carnival #112

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In 2008, one of the greatest movies of the decade came to cinemas: The Dark Knight. Being out of debt is good, but the only way we really improve our lot in life is by saving and investing for the future! Next week’s host is the Life Compass Blog. Jason shares his tips on how to make your site stand out. How about you?

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Happy New Year!

Finally Frugal

Little did I know when I started this blog in January of 2008 that I would learn so much and come so far in my struggle to overcome my debt and control my spending. Welcome to 2011! Over the past three years I've heard from so many of you who are in the same situation, either just beginning your journey or close to the end.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

I first stumbled across Kristen’s blog about 10 years ago. I didn’t relate to the homeschooling posts at that time so I ended up re-discovering her blog about 6-7 years ago and have been reading regularly ever since. This is completely inspired by this blog. We bought our house as a short sale in 2008.

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