The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
I made some foolish choices shortly after graduating college, burning through my savings and running up credit card bills. I think of the period of my life right after college my “quarter life crisis,” which included a series of money mistakes. I like your Very Impractical Sports Car; it is beautiful!
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
I’m 47, married, and living amongst the cornfields in a college town in the Midwest U.S. Visiting family in Florida, we enjoy no-cost activities like visiting their beautiful beaches! The first few years after graduating, I racked up a large credit card debt and bought a new SUV that cost approximately the same as my annual salary.
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Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 11, 2016
They’re taking a gap year between high school and college. Recently on Facebook, I shared a beautiful picture and tagged my husband, “Jeff, let’s retire HERE.” The cost of college education is crushing and many parents feel compelled to assist or pay for the entire tuition. Is that possible?”
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Today’s Debt Free Story is from Charissa. My husband and I live in the Phoenix metro area in the beautiful southwest desert of Arizona. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We started paying it off when we got married and became debt free just shy of our second anniversary.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 4, 2011
Philip from Deliver Away Debt shares his story: How I Delivered Away My Debt. mbhunter from Mighty Bargain Hunter asks Are you contributing to this debt clock? and says, “The big debt clock is over $14 trillion now, but this other one is approaching $1 trillion, and may affect you more directly.&#. How about you?
Family Balance Sheet
MARCH 4, 2015
Today’s Debt Free Story is from Maureen. She writes at A Debt Free Stress Free Life. Besides writing on my personal finance blog, A Debt Free Stress Free Life, I’m an adjunct professor at a local college and own a residential and commercial cleaning business. How much debt did you pay off? Where are you from?
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
I came into adulthood struggling to pay my way through college and then struggling to repay student loans on a small salary. I was always in debt, which has been a tremendous source of shame for me. As I was paying my way through college. Apply it toward debt. I learned how to repair my own car. Marrying my husband.
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