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Where I found money in February

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I have used the extra money to pay off debt, fund family trips, or build up our Christmas savings. I had an unexpected surprise hit my credit card in February. I had an unexpected surprise hit my credit card in February. I’m saving my plasma money for summer trips and activities.

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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I quit my job to focus on my own stuff (blogging, painting, rental property, my iPhone app, writing Kindle books, etc.). Quitting my job is one of the things being debt free has enabled us to do. have barely any bills and be able to live off passive income. But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt. We didn’t carry over credit card balances, we paid off our car notes early, and the interest rate on the student loan was at a low 2.75%. At that time, we didn’t consider all debt to be dumb.

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

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She blogs about books at [link]. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off $68,000 of debt in eight months. The debt included about $30,000 in student loans, some medical debt, IRS debt, and a small amount on a credit card.

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

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2 – Create your own Debt Freedom Plan. I highly recommend reading Dave Ramsey’s book, The Total Money Makeover. We are following his debt snowball method and the book provided the blueprint for our Debt Freedom Plan. Download your FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker. But I disagree.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Control Your Cash from Control Your Cash boldly says Your Smart Car Isn’t Saving the World. There are plenty of other things that are just adding to the problem. , and says, “The big debt clock is over $14 trillion now, but this other one is approaching $1 trillion, and may affect you more directly.&#. He’s right.

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

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And in adulthood, they are stashing their incomes and living hyper-frugally to save for early retirement, instead of waiting to 65 to fulfill their dreams. This leaves not much left to save for retirement. ” Recently Go Banking Rates conducted two studies on savings rates with startling results. It’s all too much.