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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 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. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? After graduating with our bachelor’s degrees Jon and I had about $36,000 in debt between us. What inspired you to get debt free? They blog at 2 Copper Coins.

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5 Steps to Crush Debt in 2016 + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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Are you ready to crush debt this year? We’re going to give it everything we’ve got and hopefully pay off the last of our non-mortgage debt by the end of this year. It will be quite a feat because by my calculations we’ll be short each month if we just apply our debt snowball payment. Stretch yourself.

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Best Balance Transfer Credit Cards of December 2023

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Wells Fargo Reflect® Card When you’re staring at a lot of high-interest credit card debt, you might be thinking you need as long as you can get to pay it off. Chances are good if you’re dealing with existing high-interest debt, you may also need a break on new purchases. That’s where a card like this shines.

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Best Personal Loans of December 2023

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Autopay: The SoFi 0.25% autopay interest rate reduction requires you to agree to make monthly principal and interest payments by an automatic monthly deduction from a savings or checking account. Source link The post Best Personal Loans of December 2023 appeared first on Savings Corner. Otherwise, a higher rate will apply.

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The Importance Of Setting Financial New Year’s Goals

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The New Year brings a chance to make a fresh start and improve our lives. In fact, one of my favorite things to do at the end of December each year is to set financial goals for the new year. If you make $50,000 and your goal is to save $25,000 this year, I’m here to tell you, this isn’t likely to happen.

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Our 2019 Financial Goal

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In previous years, I would create a long list of financial goals, only to have little accomplished by the end of the December. Fortunately, we were making good progress with our #2 goal prior and had quite a bit of it saved for this second medical event. Part of me didn’t even want to make a financial goal for 2019.