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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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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.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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We ran the numbers of the purchase and they looked great on paper, but paper doesn’t account for a new server, a roof leak, unexpected medical bills, and other calamities. To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt.

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