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

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We paid for braces, college tuition for my son, and did fun stuff like traveling while we were paying off debt. I had already cut expenses to the bone early on, since experiencing a multi-year stretch of unemployment, so there wasn’t much to be done there, although I think my husband cancelled his gym membership.

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