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What Money Advice Would You Give Yourself If You Could Go Back in Time

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Or put yet another trip to Las Vegas on the credit card. I opened a retirement account during that period, but it involved a managed fund with a 2% annual fee. My rewards credit cards were feeble, and I didn’t have a plan for using them. Why I Don’t Use Credit Card Rewards Programs.

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Meet Aja. She & her husband Paid Off $110,000 in Debt

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We paid down mostly student loans, vehicles and business credit card debt ( we already own a home outright ). I had a client engagement in Las Vegas in March 2014. Kelvin came along (using airline points) and we lived it up in Vegas for 6 days and drove over to LA to see friends for a day.

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