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

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories! They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. We also were working on paying for Jon’s master’s degree and then my own masters degree, which I completed in December 2013. What inspired you to get debt free? They blog at 2 Copper Coins.

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Carrie. Yep, we’re newlyweds and eloped together in December 2013. It took just over a year (14 months to be exact) before I paid off all my debts and became debt free! What inspired you to get debt free? Who initiated the debt free goal?

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Happy New Year’s 2019: In January 2019, we were down to one final non-mortgage loan, so we created just one financial goal for the year—-to pay off that last non-mortgage debt by December. I just started reading the book, LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt-Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward.

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5 Steps to Crush Debt in 2016 + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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It will be quite a feat because by my calculations we’ll be short each month if we just apply our debt snowball payment. We need to find/earn even more money each month to throw at the debt to make our goal by December 31, 2016. Paying off debt is not fun, in fact, it sucks!

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