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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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Read more about Shannon’s debt free journey. What inspired you to get debt free? In January 2013 there was a blog post on Keeper of the Home that first awakened me to the concept of living debt free. We were living on one income that placed us just at the top of lower class income level.

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

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In order to maintain our debt free lifestyle, we pay cash for everything. If we want to buy a car, we save and pay cash. This is a huge celebration for us in living debt free! What habits did you form while being debt free that will now stick with you for the long term? Give to others.

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

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The only debt we had was a mortgage – however when we first got married we were stupid and bought a Mercedes. We swore we would never finance a car again. After we purchased our house, we decided that it would be our last debt – so we worked hard and paid the entire thing off in less than 8 years. And deodorant.

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