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5 Steps to CRUSH Debt + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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Did you make a goal to pay off debt this year? For many years, we made a yearly goal to chip away at our six figures of non-mortgage debt. It took us years to pay it all off, but we achieved it in 2019. Your first assignment: Take the first step and calculate your debts by using my FREE Family Balance Sheet.

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

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I quit my job to focus on my own stuff (blogging, painting, rental property, my iPhone app, writing Kindle books, etc.). Quitting my job is one of the things being debt free has enabled us to do. have barely any bills and be able to live off passive income. But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Happy New Year’s 2019: In January 2019, we were down to one final non-mortgage loan, so we created just one financial goal for the year—-to pay off that last non-mortgage debt by December. I just started reading the book, LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt-Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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We also had some building repairs that we needed to cash flow. Pay off all Non-Mortgage Debt. Our non-mortgage debt was in the six figures and included a student loan and business loans. We used Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball method. | Related Reading: WHY We Wanted to be Debt Free. Brain dump!

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

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Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? We had become so accustomed to living off both incomes that we really had to re-adjust a few lifestyle choices so we could live off just my husbands income. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? Yes, I did follow a few of Dave Ramsey’s strategies, but I also starting reading other finance blogs to see how they paid off debt so quickly. Who initiated the debt free goal?

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