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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories! They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. With tuition payments and debt payments we spent about $60,395 between January 2012 and March 2014 when we became completely debt free with two bachelor’s and two master’s degrees between us.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Happy New Year’s 2019: In January 2019, we were down to one final non-mortgage loan, so we created just one financial goal for the year—-to pay off that last non-mortgage debt by December. DONE 2015. 4 – Pay off all Non-Mortgage Debt. | DONE September 2019!!! 5 Steps to Crush Debt.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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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. Pay Off Mortgage Debt.

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5 Steps to Crush Debt in 2016 + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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Read our 2016 Crushing Debt Guidelines here. 4 – Break your debt crushing goals down into timely steps. What can you realistically pay off, while still stretching yourself in 2016? Paying off debt is not fun, in fact, it sucks! We built in some celebrations into our Debt Freedom Plan.

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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals (tips from the achievers)

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Jessi and her husband paid off her student loans. Their 2017 goal is to pay off the remaining balance on their mortgage ($27,900) and be DEBT FREE! Jackie and her husband paid off $147,000 of debt in 10 years and are debt free. Shannon and her husband paid off $22,000 in nine months.