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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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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. Is there anything else you’d like to add that you think would help the readers who want to become debt free? Paying off debt can be done!

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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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.

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How to Save Money in 2016

Saving Cents With Sense

I know many of you are in similar situations of needed to save, but wanting to pay off debt, and eventually be able to put money in savings. Through lay offs, new jobs, new schools, illness, and everything else involved with a family, we have had our ups and downs. Make a list (with coupons of course!)

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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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.

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20 Tips for Frugal Living

For the Mommas

You can use the difference in income to pay off debt, save or invest. Find all kinds of fun activities you can do at home. And if you’re not paying your bill in full every month, you’re paying a lot of extra money in interest. 20 Tips for Frugal Living. You have more options with a frugal lifestyle.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Debt

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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. See where you can make cutbacks. Look at cutting back on little luxuries such as eating out at lunch each day or in the evenings.

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

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We charted out our course of action to pay off debts and start saving for retirement. In 2015, we crushed quite a bit of debt and started 2016 with momentum to continue and possibly pay off this last debt by the end of the year and start contributing to retirement again.