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

Family Balance Sheet

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Acadia. She writes about simple living, parenting and her family’s foster story at Fostering Simplicity. What do you and your spouse do for a living? We ended up buying a house from a relative, which put us in even more debt. We live beneath our means.

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The only secrets we have from one another is when we buy each other a gift. Consumerism Commentary asks us if we are better off than our parents ? In my life, my parents have always seemed to do quite well financially and we never suffered as kids. Even now, my parents are in a fantastic financial situation. Going Green.

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Find out how Anna paid off $23,605 in college, personal loans, and credit cards.

Family Balance Sheet

How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? It was a mix of college loans, a personal loan from my parents (for college), an overdraft account, and credit card debt. What inspired you to get debt free? I had tried a lot of different things to get out of debt but nothing worked.