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

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Together they paid off $23,000 in 16 months. What are your hobbies? We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. Make paying off debt a priority. Where are you from?

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

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Together they blog about becoming debt free and location independence in order to serve the world at Life with a Mission. 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. Where are you from?

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

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Each month when they do their budget, they update their chart. If your big dream requires money, start saving, begin to budget, and direct your money in a way that you will be ready for opportunity when it comes up. Related Reading: Check out Deacon’s free Starter Budget Form. Then create a plan to get there.

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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. Long distance running is now a hobby and my training is a habit. Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. S – specific. M – measurable.

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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.) 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. Then my husband decided to pay off his car.

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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. What are your hobbies? What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Tell us about you and your family.

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

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They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. What are your hobbies? 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.

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