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5 Steps to CRUSH Debt + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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Did you make a goal to pay off debt this year? For many years, we made a yearly goal to chip away at our six figures of non-mortgage debt. Our journey to debt freedom started back in 2013 when we found ourselves saddled with business and student loans. If debt freedom is your goal , what can you accomplish THIS year?

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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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WHY We Want to Be Debt Free

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Why are we jumping through these hoops to be debt free? WHY do we want to be debt free? When we wrote our Debt Freedom Plan , I posted it on the refrigerator as a daily reminder for the two of us. Daddy and I needed to pay off some debts before we could make a trip to Disney. “What is debt, mommy?”

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How We Frugal-ed in July 2022

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After the pan cools enough, I drain the bacon fat into a glass jar that I keep in the refrigerator. If you’d like information on donating plasma, read my review of donating plasma HERE. . However, once we paid off all of that debt, I started playing the credit card game. My recipe: Fresh Basil Walnut Pesto. Got Bacon Fat?

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Family Budget Spreadsheets 2021

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For more information about the spreadsheets and details on how to order, visit: Family Budget Spreadsheets. You enter your information and the spreadsheet calculates your total assets, liabilities, and your net worth. For more information about the spreadsheets and details on how to order, visit: Family Budget Spreadsheets.

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

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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. Fortunately, they willingly shared their advice from their success and I am passing that information on to you, so we can ALL succeed this year.

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My 2020 Financial Goals & A Recap of 2019

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I even kept this below image on my refrigerator. My word was REDUCE: Non-mortgage debt to zero. There were hits and misses on this list, and many are things that I will continue to work on, but let’s recap: 1 – Reduce non-mortgage debt to zero. It was a long road and we were finally non-mortgage debt FREE!!