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Create your debt freedom plan

Family Balance Sheet

We didn’t carry over credit card balances, we paid off our car notes early, and the interest rate on the student loan was at a low 2.75%. A student loan? We also didn’t feel comfortable with Dave’s suggestion of a $1000 starter emergency fund, which is his step #1. We thought we were doing really well.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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I turned 50 …I know, I know, I don’t look a day over 30, because 50 is the new 30… …anyway, on the last Friday of September, we sent in the very last payment to my husband’s student loan and our goal of paying off our non-mortgage debt by the end of this year is complete! We’re way behind on this.

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