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Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
What inspired you to get debt free? That inspired me to be intentional with my finances and to follow Dave’s six steps. When my wife and I got married, we both made the decision that our first financial priority would be becoming debt free. We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt. We do it together.
Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully. We still allotted a lot of money for food, but we were careful not to go too far over budget. Who initiated the debt free goal? Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? Daniel does all the day-to-day finances.
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Savings Corner
DECEMBER 24, 2023
Try adjusting the terms, loan types or rate until you find a debt consolidation plan that fits your goals and budget. Debt consolidation is the process of combining several debts into one new loan. The goal is to streamline payments, lower interest, and pay off debt more quickly.
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 4, 2014
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.
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 5, 2015
My husband has always been the one who has felt the full weight of our debt. He was always trying to put us on budgets, help us look for ways to save and not spend so much but we never found a system that worked for us and continued in spending behaviors that didn’t help advance goals. Was there a particular event?
Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
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. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. The first thing we did was to review our spending and create a budget.
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?
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