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

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Meet The Achievers: Deacon and his wife paid off $52,000 in debt in 18 months. She hit that goal in September 2016. Elle and her husband paid off a car loan and saved cash for their next car. That’s a lot of time, but our non-mortgage debt totaled six figures, so we broke our debt into smaller chunks.

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

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” Her comment was echoed by another (in real life) conversation I was having with a different friend who is sending a child off to college this fall. The cost of college education is crushing and many parents feel compelled to assist or pay for the entire tuition. (If Is that possible?”