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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. How would you pay for an unexpected car repair? Do you take your car to a car wash?

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

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Along our part-time business my husband is a senior web designer for Ramsey Solutions aka Dave Ramsey. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. 10K in car payments, $35K in credit card debt. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it?

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

Family Balance Sheet

Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. And while I don’t like parting with our money, I am grateful that this repair won’t send us into financial distress. How would you pay for an unexpected car repair? Do you take your car to a car wash?

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

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Drew works full time for Department of Defense. Farrah works part time for Department of Defense. Farrah also has a kids t-shirt line that she runs out of the house called Lovely Littles Shop. Farrah would say “lets buy new couches” or “I want the car payment done by October”. Drinking water when you eat out.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. medical bills, a small credit card, both of our cars, and student loans. out and it gave us the momentum we needed to focus on all of our other. cars, and finally our student loans. because we aren’t eating out. 3 – Make time for fun!

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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However, it produces a small part-time income from side-bar ads and affiliate commissions. We didn’t max out our contributions, but we were at least contributing something and while it prolonged our pay off period, it was a compromise that made us both feel better. We drive older cars. Also, we both have side hustles.

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

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Brian’s wife took on a part-time job to increase their income to throw at their debt. She cut her cable bill in half, rewrote her car and house insurance saving her $300, stopped the coffee runs, eliminated her dry cleaning bill. Eating out daily will add up. He also sold rights to software that he developed.

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