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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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Meet Doug & Laura. They Paid off $23,000 in 16 Months. | Debt Free Stories

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When my wife and I got married, we both made the decision that our first financial priority would be becoming debt free. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt. Make paying off debt a priority.

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What are YOUR Financial Goals? | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Earlier this year, my husband and I wrote a specific list of financial goals and named it Our Debt Freedom Plan. We used Dave Ramsey’s principles from his books, The Total Money Makeover and Financial Peace as a guide to create a step by step plan on how we will achieve our financial goals. S – specific.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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She blogs about books at [link]. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off $68,000 of debt in eight months. The debt included about $30,000 in student loans, some medical debt, IRS debt, and a small amount on a credit card. Paying off debt can be done!

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

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When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources. The first step in this diligence was paying off debt. We sold the excess.

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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The fear of losing my baby led to the desire for me to be a stay at home mom, but I knew that would never work if we were in such debt. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? We didn’t attend FPU until February 2014, and three weeks later we paid off our last debt.

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? We had tried other methods in the past, but found this one suited us best since it forced us to focus on one goal at a time, rather than trying to do it all (pay off debt and contribute to savings and retirement).

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