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

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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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A Sweeter Way to Cook Your Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Start With What You Want I didn’t realize it at the time, but I established a baking process that nearly guaranteed failure. I didn’t start the process with my true desire in mind. However, my baking process was designed to produce a cookie that I didn’t truly desire. Do you want to be debt free? Can you see how?

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The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save?

Penny Pinchin' Mom

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. You are one emergency short of losing track of your finances.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Acadia. We have a 5 year old son and are in the process of adopting our 2 year old and 4 month old foster sons, making us parents of 3 boys! What inspired you to get debt free? The money that we used to spend on debt now goes into savings. Where are you from?

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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So I’m thrilled to bring you today’s story, because I actually watched this couple’s debt free scream when it was live on the show. Drew & Farrah’s Debt Free Story. ACTUAL MONEY PUT TOWARDS DEBT OVER 5 YEARS (because of interest during the 5 years) – $200,000. Where are you from?

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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. It took just over a year (14 months to be exact) before I paid off all my debts and became debt free! I was only bringing home a net income of $3,000 a month, so paying $1,000 each month towards my debt was a lot of money, and took a lot of sacrificing.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Janet presents Expense budgeting posted at Fee Only Financial Planner , saying, ” Many people do not track their living expenses and do not understand the magnitude of their consumption. Failure to monitor your consumption expenditures means that they are flying blindly regarding their future finances.

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