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

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Louis neighborhood is within walking distance to the zoo and a couple of parks, so I enjoy walking with the kids each day to let them run off some energy and I get a little workout in too. We save and try to manage our finances, but do so with an openness to give money away as well. How did you celebrate when you became debt free?

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We get a visual picture every month of where are finances are and what we have spent our money on. In my life, my parents have always seemed to do quite well financially and we never suffered as kids. I loved that series as a kid. Personal Finance by the Book tells us how negotiating can put us on top. Managing Money.

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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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I’m Shannon Brown, and I’m a crunchy Christian mama blessed to live in beautiful North Idaho. He now works as an architect, and I do some freelance from home now that we have kids. Luckily, even without misguided financial beliefs, we did pay off a significant portion of our debt before having kids.

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

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The only debt we had was a mortgage – however when we first got married we were stupid and bought a Mercedes. We swore we would never finance a car again. After we purchased our house, we decided that it would be our last debt – so we worked hard and paid the entire thing off in less than 8 years. And deodorant.

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