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Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon

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Today we’re meeting an Oregonian who does an impressive amount of homesteading. As well as other “from scratch” things like my current main hobby of teaching myself how to spin yarn from our sheeps’ wool. The post Meet a Reader | Gretchen from Oregon appeared first on The Frugal Girl. Hello, everyone!

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

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What are your hobbies? Look over your current budget. Meet with a financial advisor. Our goal is to meet with experts and ask them for advice. Our goal is to meet with experts and ask them for advice. We had financial advisors look over our budget and make suggestions about what we could cut.

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

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What are your hobbies? 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. How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending? We do meet every month to go over expenses and needs.

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

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What are your hobbies? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending? We are both self proclaimed budget nerds so we both handle the budgeting and financial decisions equally. Budget Debt Free Stories Financial Freedom' They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school.

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Happy New Year 2024

Shereen Travels Cheap

Meet up with more friends on my travels - If you're like me, you have a lot of social media friends you've never met in real life, but you know they are awesome. Maybe it'll be an activity, maybe it'll be a hobby, it'll definitely be food. It was pretty great and I hope to continue finding things to do the rest of the year.

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

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What are your hobbies? That’s one of my hobbies.) How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending? I think I even announced it during a meeting at work. Where are you from? What do you and your spouse do for a living? I also love, love, LOVE to travel. So we both handle the money.

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Meet Aja. She & her husband Paid Off $110,000 in Debt

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What are your hobbies? Finally, we took the dive by making a budget and starting our debt snowball. The budget is key. I told Kelvin and he wasn’t overly excited, but he was on board right away and was pretty complicit in the budget making and accelerated debt pay-off. So I work the budget and spreadsheets.

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