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Ways to Beat Lifestyle Inflation

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Even if that means that you allow yourself to buy a coffee every once in awhile and you didn’t let yourself before, it’s lifestyle inflation. I still have debt to pay off and want to buy a house, so all of that inflation money could go toward saving or paying down debt more quickly. Likely, there was a reason.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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Once we got married we realized we have great jobs and a great income, but where is all the money going? We knew that we would make more money but we wanted to be able to buy a house with a conventional mortgage and we can’t come up with the down payment so we need to ratchet down. Sleeping on purchases.

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