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Eight Things I Learned After Becoming a Millionaire

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Managing your finances gets a lot more complex and time consuming. Knowing I had the financial backing to live through negative life events (divorce, job loss, catastrophe, etc) removed a level of stress from my life. A fulfilled life, to me, is a life of accomplishment. Having enough money can remove stress from your life.

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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 off over $147,000 in debt (actually way over that amount, if you want to count a $210,000 rental property that I sold at a slight loss.) About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) The rest was our house. to a high of maybe $80,000/year.

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