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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories. She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. After paying off the debt, she was able to quit her job to pursue her passion. She blogs at The Debt Myth. Quitting my job is one of the things being debt free has enabled us to do. Get creative.

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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories! They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. Jon’s been a youth pastor for 4 years and we’re very active in the Quaker church or ‘Friends.’ What inspired you to get debt free? Who initiated the debt free goal?

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Chit Chat: 06.17.18

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It was a week spent together without having to worry about getting our kids from one activity to the other. On Saturday morning before the kids got home, we hit 3 neighborhood yard sales, another activity that we love to do together, but don’t get a chance to do very often. We want to be debt free.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Acadia. We strive to be a pretty active family. What inspired you to get debt free? We felt like we couldn’t do a lot of the things in life we wanted to do because there was always the debt and the loan payments. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Jessica. Our lives have been forever changed and our opportunity to financial success in the future are greater than they could have ever been! What inspired you to get debt free? We weren’t really active looking for it actually. Tell us about you and your family.

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A Sweeter Way to Cook Your Budget

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If you’ve ever wanted to find a way to make either activity enjoyable, I’ll share my secrets. Do you want to be debt free? Once you’ve made some financial goals that motivate and inspire you, try and put dollar amounts around them. I like to bake cookies, and I like to budget. Do you want to retire?

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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Savvy Scot controversially talks about how to spend money and what so many financial bloggers are doing wrong! Debt Guru presents Actively Avoiding Debt posted at Debt Free Blog , saying, “Find out how you can actively avoid debt by not having a wish list or items that you want to buy next.”

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