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

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I’m Shannon Brown, and I’m a crunchy Christian mama blessed to live in beautiful North Idaho. He now works as an architect, and I do some freelance from home now that we have kids. Luckily, even without misguided financial beliefs, we did pay off a significant portion of our debt before having kids.

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

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We live in Southwest Virginia – I was born and raised here. I’m a stay-at-home homeschooling mom to Annie (5), Andy (2), and Eli (2 months). How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? That was the remaining balance on our home. We were debt free before I was 30 , including our home.

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

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We sold the majority of our possessions and now our family of 5 lives in a two bedroom apartment in the city as opposed to our much, much larger home in the suburbs. What inspired you to get debt free? Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Was there a particular event?

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Find out how Anna paid off $23,605 in college, personal loans, and credit cards.

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Also, I should add that his income didn’t contribute to my debt payoff totals at all. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending? I thought I’d die with my debt but here I am living debt-free.

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

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We have more stable careers, we have no debt (other than our mortgage), and we own a home. Canadian Finance Blog tells us why living debt free doesn’t help our credit score. I like the idea of helping them out with setting up a budget. How about you? We actually just implemented this. Great ideas.

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