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Create your debt freedom plan

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Many years ago, my husband and I faced what we thought was an insurmountable hurdle– six figures of non-mortgage debts. Stressed out, we ventured into Dave Ramsey’s online Financial Peace University home course for help. Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt.

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Money Matters: How to Prepare Your Finances for a Recession

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Nobody knows for sure whether we’ll see a recession or not,” said Amy Maliga, financial educator with Take Charge America, a nonprofit credit counseling and debt management agency. An emergency fund is vital regardless of the larger economic climate. Prepare by paying off debt. Prepare for the unexpected.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Our Debt Freedom Plan has been a long winding road. The journey started in 2012 when we bought an office building for our business and then found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt.

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

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories. She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. After paying off the debt, she was able to quit her job to pursue her passion. She blogs at The Debt Myth. Quitting my job is one of the things being debt free has enabled us to do.

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

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We charted out our course of action to pay off debts and start saving for retirement. It’s taking forever for us to accomplish the step we’re on (paying off our non-mortgage debt), but we keep plugging away. Start Saving for your Emergency Fund TODAY! Where We Stand.

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How to Start a Budget (and be successful at it!)

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I came up with strategies to help us pay for yearly bills, large expenses, and we were able to pay off debts. I discovered the term, Zero-Based Budget, when my husband and I took Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University home course many years ago. During that time, I started to budget for everything.

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