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

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What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Because we wanted to get out of debt as fast as possible, we stopped saving money after we had an emergency fund in place. We all the extra money we had been putting away toward debt reduction. Make paying off debt a priority.

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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. It took us years to pay it all off, but we achieved it in 2019. This list became our personal Debt Freedom Plan. Paying off debt is not fun, in fact, it sucks!

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?

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

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Meet The Achievers: Deacon and his wife paid off $52,000 in debt in 18 months. Instead of writing, “I want to pay off debt” or “I don’t want to live paycheck to paycheck”, commit to “I want to pay off $X of credit card debt in 201X and I will stop using credit cards from this point forward.”

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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Meet Krystal. I love her passion for helping others along their debt free journey. Krystal & Josh’s Debt Free Story. working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet. Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living?

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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Meet Angela. I watched her and her husband’s debt free scream on The Dave Ramsey Show. You can find Angela at her You Tube channel, Our Life…on a Budget , where she vlogs about getting out of debt and staying there! What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt.

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Find out how Charissa and Her Husband Paid Off $7665 of Debt and Cash Flowed College

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However, since paying off our debt, I have become a much bigger fan of the baby steps laid out by Dave Ramsey and really see the wisdom in paying off debt in that fashion. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. I initiated paying off the debt.

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