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Meet Doug & Laura. They Paid off $23,000 in 16 Months. | Debt Free Stories

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My wife is in sales for a software company and I am a fundraiser for a local non-profit that helps the homeless. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off just over $23,000 in one year and four months. We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt.

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

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That meant no vacations, no new clothes, no eating out, nothing. This immediately let me slash a huge amount off my monthly spending – though of course it wasn’t much fun at the time! Debt Negotiation – I started to wonder whether the money I owed was “fixed” or not. Yes, but not yet!

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