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Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Welcome to Debt Free Stories. What inspired you to get debt free? I went through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University when I was 18 years old. When my wife and I got married, we both made the decision that our first financial priority would be becoming debt free. Where are you from?
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
Wonder what sets you apart from the people that seem to crush their financial goals? They pay off mountains of debt and scream about debt freedom, or maybe they save gobs of money in a record amount of time, or they have considerable success with their new small business. Jessi and her husband paid off her student loans.
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Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Welcome to Debt Free Stories. She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. After paying off the debt, she was able to quit her job to pursue her passion. She blogs at The Debt Myth. Quitting my job is one of the things being debt free has enabled us to do.
Penny Pinchin' Mom
DECEMBER 17, 2023
The post The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save? Should you pay off debt or save? So, you want to get started on debt repayment so you can focus on other financial goals? However, if you pay off these debts, there will be nothing left for investments in these tough financial times.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 9, 2021
Yet after listening to Dave’s approach, I knew I didn’t want to be anybody’s slave and if I was being honest with myself, the total amount of debt payments we made every month was ridiculous. After the FPU class, we looked at our debts differently. If others could knock out debt, we could too. DONE November 2019.
Family Balance Sheet
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Our Debt Freedom Plan has been a long winding road. The journey started in 2012 when we bought an office building for our business and then found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. Updates on our Debt Freedom Plan over the years: Our Original Debt Freedom Plan – written in March 2014.
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 21, 2015
Today’s debt free story is from Aja. What inspired you to get debt free? We realized that debt payments were eating into our income and potential to build wealth. It would be hard to have the laid back life we envisioned with both of us working frantically just to pay bills (mostly made of debt.)
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