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

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What are your hobbies? That’s one of my hobbies.) About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. Then my husband decided to pay off his car.

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

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Together they blog about becoming debt free and location independence in order to serve the world at Life with a Mission. What are your hobbies? Daniel can work anywhere there is an internet connection and the kids can homeschool anywhere, but we didn’t have the money to buy the plane tickets or book AirBnB apartments.

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

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She blogs about living a limitless life on a limited budget at Frugal Debt Free Life. What are your hobbies? What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need even if it seems like a great deal. To pay off our home early.

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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You can find Angela at her You Tube channel, Our Life…on a Budget , where she vlogs about getting out of debt and staying there! Angela & Jeff’s Debt Free Story. What are your hobbies? What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Tell us about you and your family.

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

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What are your hobbies? We had become so accustomed to living off both incomes that we really had to re-adjust a few lifestyle choices so we could live off just my husbands income. This ultimately is what put us on the fast track for paying off debt in such a quick amount of time. Where are you from?

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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What are your hobbies? We had been paying on it our entire marriage, but could not afford to pay too much above the minimum payment requirement. We ended up buying a house from a relative, which put us in even more debt. Having more of a minimalist mentality has helped us to buy less and to own less.

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

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They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. What are your hobbies? 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.

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