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Meet Doug & Laura. They Paid off $23,000 in 16 Months. | Debt Free Stories

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories. What inspired you to get debt free? When my wife and I got married, we both made the decision that our first financial priority would be becoming debt free. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living?

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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories! They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. With tuition payments and debt payments we spent about $60,395 between January 2012 and March 2014 when we became completely debt free with two bachelor’s and two master’s degrees between us.

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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. Get creative.

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5 Steps to CRUSH Debt + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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However, when we paid off our very last non-mortgage debt, we planned a cruise to celebrate. The post 5 Steps to CRUSH Debt + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker appeared first on Family Balance Sheet. The entire week on the cruise, my husband and I looked at each other in disbelief at what we accomplished. We ate an elephant!

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How to Live your Dream Life Debt Free

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Living your dream life debt free requires a simply task of going back to Grade 1 math lessons and applying the concepts. Now hold that thought and think about this: living your dream life debt free. . Realizing your dream life debt free is not only about earning more money. Minimize “1-0”.

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4 Reasons to Graduate Debt-Free

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Graduating debt free would give you the opportunity to evaluate what type of company you’d rather work for, instead of who can afford you. Often, non-profit and private companies cannot afford to pay as much as public organizations, but they offer better working environments and more job satisfaction. Lifestyle Inflation.

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WHY We Want to Be Debt Free

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Why are we jumping through these hoops to be debt free? WHY do we want to be debt free? I want them to think of debt as a curse, not something that is inevitable. We want them to know what a cash life looks like, not a life paid for with debt. And why is he driving a 14 year old car? Dave Ramsey.

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