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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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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. To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt.

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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’re energized by young people and are pretty sure most of our lives will be spent working with this age group. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? What inspired you to get debt free?

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

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Are you ready to crush debt this year? We’re going to give it everything we’ve got and hopefully pay off the last of our non-mortgage debt by the end of this year. It will be quite a feat because by my calculations we’ll be short each month if we just apply our debt snowball payment. Stretch yourself.

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Best Balance Transfer Credit Cards of December 2023

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Wells Fargo Reflect® Card When you’re staring at a lot of high-interest credit card debt, you might be thinking you need as long as you can get to pay it off. Chances are good if you’re dealing with existing high-interest debt, you may also need a break on new purchases. That’s where a card like this shines.

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Friday Links – Too Swamped Edition

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I have started a new job at work which is great but also very overwhelming as I still need to keep up doing my old job until my replacement is hired and trained. Working to build your emergency fund? Are you a current student or someone who’s currently paying off student loan debt? As December. Hi everyone.

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Take Control of YOUR Money in 2016

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My husband and I are back at work, our girls are back in school, and our normal routine resumes. While we made considerable headway in 2015 with reducing our debts, we missed our goal of paying off a loan by the end of the year. Instead of December, we now should have it paid off by the end of this February. I’m back!

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A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish

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To many, working with a spouse would be too difficult, but our individual strengths and weaknesses complement each other and the arrangement has worked well. However a few years ago, we found ourselves with too much debt and not enough cash. I designed our Debt Freedom Plan, but it essentially was our life plan.

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