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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.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Becoming debt-free became very appealing and the idea of being able to give more, save more, and live more was the direction we wanted to go. He makes it really simple and you should Google it if you haven’t heard of his steps. Read about it here: How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt. Pay Off Mortgage Debt.

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Find out how Charissa and Her Husband Paid Off $7665 of Debt and Cash Flowed College

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I also appreciated the simple, common-sense advice and the baby steps. It was after I started listening to Dave Ramsey, that I started thinking about getting out of debt more quickly and realizing that it was definitely possible to become debt free. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Sean Smarty from Grow Money talks about How to Invest During College. “To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.&#. FMF from Free Money Finance shares his Simple Car Email. Money Thinker from Money Thinking asks Is Going to College Still Worth It?

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

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Yeah, There’s a Calculator for That Refinancing your mortgage to a lower rate and paying the same amount is an interesting sound-byte from Personal Finance Bloggers – but has anyone really run the numbers? The College Investor : Best Defensive Stock Sectors The best stock sectors for playing defense in a rough market.

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It Really Does Get Better

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Get Rich Slowly, in their ‘ About’ page states “My research revealed that few people get rich quickly, but almost anyone can get rich slowly by patiently following some simple rules. “ They list 12 key beliefs and say that “By following my own advice, I’ve managed to ditch my debt and actually begin saving.

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