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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

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If you haven’t already done so, NOW is the time to start mapping out and budgeting for summer. To help you plan your summer, I have added TWO summer freebies to my subscribers’ only page: a 2022 printable summer calendar and a summer budget spreadsheet. Budget your summer fun! Visit a different playground each week.

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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. 2 – Create your Debt Freedom Plan. This list became our personal Debt Freedom Plan.

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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals (tips from the achievers)

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Their 2017 goal is to pay off the remaining balance on their mortgage ($27,900) and be DEBT FREE! Jackie and her husband paid off $147,000 of debt in 10 years and are debt free. They’re still working on developing their goals for 2017. Shannon and her husband paid off $22,000 in nine months.

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

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You can find Angela at her You Tube channel, Our Life…on a Budget , where she vlogs about getting out of debt and staying there! Angela & Jeff’s Debt Free Story. Tell us about you and your family. We’re typical Canadians that spend most of our free time in the fall and winter months inside arenas.

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

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We live in metro Phoenix, in a 70s tract house that we’ve been gradually re-doing. About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) From start to finish it took us a very long time — I would guess 10 years. What inspired you to get debt free?

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

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We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. If you’re married, you must do this with your spouse. Too often we only think about goals in January, but today we’re going to work on new financial goals.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Listed below is our original debt freedom plan that we wrote back in 2013. At that time, our kids were 8 & 6, and now they’re both teenagers and wrapping up ninth & seventh grades. Currently, we’re working on steps 6, 7, and 8 simultaneously. Pay off all Non-Mortgage Debt.

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