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JUNE 2, 2016

At the same time my credit card debt was slowly creeping upward too thanks to my minimal income. I was earning more each year and the debt I was carrying was covered each month without too much worry. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Initially it all seemed fine.

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Debt Finds Debt Free Pay Off Debt 100

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JUNE 22, 2020

However, we were never going to make any substantial headway on paying off these loans early unless we had some heavy hitters and our monthly retirement contribution was a heavy hitter. As hard as it was to do, we stopped contributing to our retirement for about three years and applied that money to these loans. Restaurants.

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Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. We reduced our spending where we could, but the money to pay any shortfall each month came from our emergency fund. Don't confuse this money with vacation money or new furniture money.

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Emergency Fund 2007 Personal Finance Debt 127

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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.

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Debt Debt Free Finds Goals 100

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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.

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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.

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Credit Cards Debt Debt Free Student 100

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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! And it saves on gas too.

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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.

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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.

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Debt Free Debt Goals Student 243

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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.

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Debt Debt Free Friends And Family Sale Budgeting 100

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AUGUST 5, 2015

What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. We saved any that we could from my husbands checks, we sold things from around the house on craigslist and ultimately we started taking everything we earned from our photography business which was a normal part of income for us and used it all on debt.

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Debt Debt Free Finds Finance 100