Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Welcome to Debt Free Stories. What inspired you to get debt free? When my wife and I got married, we both made the decision that our first financial priority would be becoming debt free. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living?
Family Balance Sheet
MAY 21, 2021
This list became our personal Debt Freedom Plan. To be honest, our first step in our plan wasn’t even paying off debt. Being self-employed, we felt we needed more than Dave’s recommended $1000 starter emergency fund that he outlines in his book, so our first step was to save a bit more for our home and office.
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Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Welcome to Debt Free Stories. She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. After paying off the debt, she was able to quit her job to pursue her passion. She blogs at The Debt Myth. Quitting my job is one of the things being debt free has enabled us to do.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Living your dream life debt free requires a simply task of going back to Grade 1 math lessons and applying the concepts. Now hold that thought and think about this: living your dream life debt free. . Realizing your dream life debt free is not only about earning more money. What is 10-1? Minimize “1-0”.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 9, 2021
Yet after listening to Dave’s approach, I knew I didn’t want to be anybody’s slave and if I was being honest with myself, the total amount of debt payments we made every month was ridiculous. After the FPU class, we looked at our debts differently. If others could knock out debt, we could too. Pay Off Mortgage Debt.
Penny Pinchin' Mom
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Advantages of Paying Off Debt From a purely financial point of view, it makes more sense to focus on debt payoff rather than directing available cash to a savings account. From a personal point of view, I much prefer living debt free. You will need to handle them first, even if your emergency fund is nonexistent.
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Today’s Debt Free Story is from Shannon. As many students do these days, we had tens of thousands of dollars of debt by the time we graduated with our Masters degrees. Living on two-incomes, we could have easily paid off our debt quickly, but we had no idea at the time that “debt free” was even a thing.
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