Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Today’s Debt Free Story is from Charissa. She helps readers gain control of their finances and live well on a budget at her blog Cook with a Shoe . I would say that this plan helped me more in the area of using a zero-based budget and sticking with a budget. My top tips to pay off your debt would be the following.
Family Balance Sheet
MAY 27, 2015
Ryan is a high school math teacher and also officiates college basketball (November thru March). We are both planners and despise wasting money on debt/interest, which is what led us to pay off our mortgage as soon as we could! How much debt did you pay off? I also blog at Snyders Tell All.
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Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 4, 2014
We met in college and currently both feel drawn toward higher education. 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.
Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 11, 2016
They’re taking a gap year between high school and college. ” Her comment was echoed by another (in real life) conversation I was having with a different friend who is sending a child off to college this fall. We charted out our course of action to pay off debts and start saving for retirement.
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 20, 2017
When we added my grad school loans to our other debts and our regular. strict budget. towards our debt. Little by little, we paid off each loan before moving. towards debt. We committed to using a cash budget, and we talked daily at. loan was paid off and we had that much extra to go towards the second.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 12, 2016
Share the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Simply doing a budget. I had also been teaching one class a quarter at a local career college so I increased to two classes a quarter. What habits did you form while being debt free that will now stick with you for the long term?
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