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

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My wife is in sales for a software company and I am a fundraiser for a local non-profit that helps the homeless. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off just over $23,000 in one year and four months. We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt.

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

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What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Daniel took on an extra job doing support work for an online company that he could do from home. We definitely spend a lot more money on eating out at restaurants and using babysitters now that we are debt free. Paying off debt can be done!

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Thanks for the honesty. Cathy Moran from Money Health Central reminds us to Make Sure There’s Life After Debt , and says, “The physical cost of getting out of debt may be more than you should pay. &#. Thanks for letting us know your secret. Many of us should have started earlier don’t you think?

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Find Out How Olivia & Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage in 33 Months

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We made sure we could afford the monthly payments on a 15 year mortgage, with the mindset that we would pay more each month. What inspired you to get debt free? There were two things that inspired us to pay off debt. If we’re going to pay half a million dollars for a house, I want it to look like that.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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In 2020, we still use and are thankful for Medi-share. Our monthly costs have gone up since 2017, but we’re still paying much less than we would with traditional health insurance. When we started our Debt Freedom Plan, our kids were 8 & 6 and I worked hard to keep our grocery bill about $400-500 a month. Restaurants.

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The Financial Effects of Marriage

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If you’re having a hard time determining which tax breaks you qualify for, use the help of a tax professional from a company like www.communitytax.com. Paying Off Debt. If both of you are entering your marriage with debt, you might have previously been tackling your accounts in the ways that made individual sense.

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Find out how Jessica paid off $56,000 of student loans, credit cards, and a car loan.

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I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. Share the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. And finally, paying off debt is completely and totally possible.