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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

Family Balance Sheet

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Acadia. She writes about simple living, parenting and her family’s foster story at Fostering Simplicity. What do you and your spouse do for a living? What inspired you to get debt free? The money that we used to spend on debt now goes into savings.

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The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save?

Penny Pinchin' Mom

Advantages of Paying Off Debt From a purely financial point of view, it makes more sense to focus on debt payoff rather than directing available cash to a savings account. From a personal point of view, I much prefer living debt free. And there are tons of other benefits as well.

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We will be away at the time the risk is the highest so we are working on getting our furniture in our basement propped up on blocks as well as running dehumidifiers. I wasn’t managing my money very well. One of the things that worked well for me was negotiating with the creditors. Now on to the PEP’s of the week.

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