Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully. Who initiated the debt free goal? Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? Daniel does all the day-to-day finances.
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 11, 2016
But for our own safety net, we must make our finances a priority. We charted out our course of action to pay off debts and start saving for retirement. It’s taking forever for us to accomplish the step we’re on (paying off our non-mortgage debt), but we keep plugging away. It is a lot.
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Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 5, 2015
I am a stay at home mom to 3 kiddos and a cockapoo named Otis. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? Total, we paid off $175K in 2 years!! 130K in mortgage debt.
Family Balance Sheet
JUNE 16, 2015
I am a stay at home mom and freelance marketer and my husband works in the construction industry. How much debt did you pay off? The fear of losing my baby led to the desire for me to be a stay at home mom, but I knew that would never work if we were in such debt. To pay off our home early.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JANUARY 6, 2011
Instead pack a lunch and cook some simple meals at home for dinner. This savings can be directly applied towards your smaller debts such as credit and store cards in order to clear them more quickly. You should be aware though, that by taking finance over a longer period, this would mean you pay back interest for longer.
Family Balance Sheet
MAY 27, 2015
I’m a former 3rd grade teacher, but now a stay at home mom and a graphic designer of Joyful Art Designs. We made sure we could afford the monthly payments on a 15 year mortgage, with the mindset that we would pay more each month. What inspired you to get debt free? There were two things that inspired us to pay off debt.
Family Balance Sheet
DECEMBER 10, 2014
I got tired of being left at home because I had a day job, so now we get to travel together and create our own adventures. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? Another book that really helped was The Debt-Free Spending Plan by JoAnnah Nagler.
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