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4 Ways to Enhance Your Financial New Year’s Resolutions

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If you are looking for a way to financially level up, here are 4 strategies that can help you make better money resolutions. Figure Out What You Want Your Money to Accomplish. Stop looking at your money as the end game, and start looking at your money as the means to an end. Your money can make things happen.

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The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save?

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The post The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save? Should you pay off debt or save? So, you want to get started on debt repayment so you can focus on other financial goals? However, if you pay off these debts, there will be nothing left for investments in these tough financial times.

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

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Read more about Shannon’s debt free journey. What inspired you to get debt free? In January 2013 there was a blog post on Keeper of the Home that first awakened me to the concept of living debt free. We were living on one income that placed us just at the top of lower class income level.

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Find out how Anna paid off $23,605 in college, personal loans, and credit cards.

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Once I started getting out of debt I read Your Money or Your Life and it changed my whole outlook on money. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. There is hope!

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

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I did read about the Dave Ramsey method, however, I knew that for us, it would take something more extreme than cutting expenses and putting that money towards our debt. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. We are choosing to live below our means. We live beneath our means.

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

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Today’s debt free story is from Stacy. She shares delicious recipes, money saving tips and frugal living posts at her blog, Stacy Makes Cents. What do you and your spouse do for a living? I was raised debt-free and Barry was introduced to a debt-free lifestyle from his grandmother and aunt.

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