Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 6, 2011

To reach any goals in your life, including your financial goals, you need to switch from the hare’s mindset to that of the tortoise. Ask yourself : Do you start saving or paying off debt with a superhuman resolve- determined to avoid all temptation- only to fall off the wagon and give up hope in a matter of a few days?

Pay Off Debt 176

Pay Off Debt Win Debt Goals 176

Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

We realized that we wanted to travel as a family and the only thing keeping us from seeing the world was money. Daniel can work anywhere there is an internet connection and the kids can homeschool anywhere, but we didn’t have the money to buy the plane tickets or book AirBnB apartments. We sold our house so now we are on Baby Step 4!

Debt 245

Debt Debt Free Finance Friends And Family Sale 245

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 2, 2022

If you think you’re going to come up short on cash, check out my 25 Ideas to Find Money. Front-Yard Landscaping: 15 Tips To Help You Design Your Landscape and Save Money. Include all the activities that you want to do again or didn’t get to in 2022 regardless if it was due to time or money, and enter an expected expense.

Budgeting 130

Budgeting Budget Friends And Family Sale Home and Garden 130

Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Key takeaways A personal loan is money you can borrow to finance large purchases, consolidate debt, invest in yourself or cover emergency expenses. Working to improve your credit score and reduce your debt-to-income ratio before applying can help get you the best loan terms. You will also start to repay the money.

Debt 52

Debt Credit Cards Credit College Tuition 52

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 16, 2015

What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. We cut our lifestyle to nothing and threw all that extra money at the debt. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. There were no money arguments.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Finds Goals 100

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APRIL 9, 2021

Yet after listening to Dave’s approach, I knew I didn’t want to be anybody’s slave and if I was being honest with myself, the total amount of debt payments we made every month was ridiculous. There were a lot more fun and purposeful things we could have done with that money than pay the lender. Prioritize.

Debt 130

Debt Emergency Fund 2019 Debt Free 130

Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? worth of debt. We owed money to just about everybody. We had two student loans that still had balances, even though we’d already been paying on them for 10 years. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Budgeting Budget 100

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JULY 2, 2015

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. Once we did that we were able to pay everything off at once. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt.

Student 100

Student Debt Debt Free Finds 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 4, 2011

They are also there working with you to help you reach your goals; even those financial goals. Jason Price from One Money Design interviews Chuck Bentley: The Root of Riches Book Interview. Chuck wrote the book to challenge how people think about money.&#. Your City or County May Have Free Money For You.

Personal Finance 240

Personal Finance Finance Family Debt 240

Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 4, 2014

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. The first step in this diligence was paying off debt.

Debt Free 243

Debt Free Debt Goals Student 243

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 20, 2017

What inspired you to become debt free? When my husband and I got married, we were making hardly any money. 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. full-time so we started bringing in a decent amount of money.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Friends And Family Sale Budgeting 100

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AUGUST 5, 2015

At first, I was annoyed that my Sunday evenings would be taken up by a financial class but I began to really look forward to that time with my husband working on one of our goals that we set out at achieve! What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Finds Finance 100

Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 10, 2014

It took just over a year (14 months to be exact) before I paid off all my debts and became debt free! I was only bringing home a net income of $3,000 a month, so paying $1,000 each month towards my debt was a lot of money, and took a lot of sacrificing. What inspired you to get debt free?

Debt 227

Debt Debt Free Financial Goals Goals 227

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 8, 2018

Do you feel like you have more month than money? Do you look at your bank account and wonder, “where did all the money go?” Many years ago, our cash flow sucked, we put Christmas on a credit card, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay for a large tax bill. ” We’ve been there too.

Budgeting 133

Budgeting Budget Financial Goals Goals 133

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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. Earn extra money. Sell things.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free College Finds 100

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MAY 27, 2015

We are both planners and despise wasting money on debt/interest, which is what led us to pay off our mortgage as soon as we could! How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off a total of $118,000 debt. What inspired you to get debt free?

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Pay Off Debt Finds 100

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JUNE 22, 2020

In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts. My grocery strategies: How to Save Money on Groceries. We stopped paying for our gym membership. .

Debt 130

Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 2, 2016

Arguably if I’d known about all the great free advice around at that time I’d have got out of debt sooner, but in the early days it was really a case of trying to figure it out for myself. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. There was only one way to find out!

Debt 100

Debt Finds Debt Free Pay Off Debt 100

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APRIL 12, 2016

The inspiration to pay off my debt was watching my grandmother balance her checkbook. She was so meticulous with her money. That observation brought back the flood of stories she and my grandfather told about coming to the US from Cuba with no money and starting over in their late 30s. Simply doing a budget.

Credit Cards 100

Credit Cards Debt Debt Free Student 100

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 7, 2015

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. I was raised debt-free and Barry was introduced to a debt-free lifestyle from his grandmother and aunt. Live junk and debt free! But not usually about money.

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Debt Free Debt Budgeting Budget 100