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What are YOUR Financial Goals? | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. Only you (and your spouse) can identify what’s important for your finances. S – specific.

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

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Together they paid off $23,000 in 16 months. What are your hobbies? What inspired you to get debt free? That inspired me to be intentional with my finances and to follow Dave’s six steps. When my wife and I got married, we both made the decision that our first financial priority would be becoming debt free.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Together they blog about becoming debt free and location independence in order to serve the world at Life with a Mission. What are your hobbies? Who initiated the debt free goal? Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending?

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

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What are your hobbies? That’s one of my hobbies.) 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. Then my husband decided to pay off his car.

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Are You Making These Five Retirement Planning Mistakes?

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Too often, we forget to plan for the impact of inflation on future finances. Yes, you might pay off debt and have fewer of those types of obligations. Expensive hobbies can also boost your costs. Even in Canada, there is a good chance that you will have to pay some of your health care costs as you age.

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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What are your hobbies? We decided to declare it our year of health and align our diets and become more healthy, invest more in our community at church and clean up our finances. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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

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They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. What are your hobbies? When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources.

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