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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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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. Paying off debt can be done!

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Find out how Jessica paid off $56,000 of student loans, credit cards, and a car loan.

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Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? Once I got home from that money changing event at my grandparents’ house, my best friend told me about this financial series she and her husband had been going through at church called Financial Peace University (Dave Ramsey).

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Find Out How Olivia & Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage in 33 Months

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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. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living?

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

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When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources. The first step in this diligence was paying off debt. We sold the excess.

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

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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. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? We didn’t attend FPU until February 2014, and three weeks later we paid off our last debt.

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

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I was trapped in a cycle of low wages and accruing debt , and lost more than a few night’s sleep over my situation. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? That meant no vacations, no new clothes, no eating out, nothing. Yes, but not yet!

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