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

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About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) We paid for braces, college tuition for my son, and did fun stuff like traveling while we were paying off debt. Building an emergency fund also helps enormously. Who initiated the debt free goal?

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