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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Carrie. What are your hobbies? How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? After my first marriage fell apart, I ended up with over $14,000 of consumer debt, made up of a car loan and credit cards. What inspired you to get debt free? Where are you from?

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Meet Tracy, a Single Mom Who Paid Off $41,587 | Debt Free Stories

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Welcome to Debt Free Stories. She paid off $41,587 in debt in 14 months! What are your hobbies? How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? What inspired you to get debt free? I was inspired to get debt free for 2 main reasons: 1. We wanted to enter into marriage debt free. (He

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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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We paid off our last non-mortgage debt in September and have since sent that loan’s monthly payment to our mortgage principal. This includes Christmas savings, extra mortgage payment, clothing, hobbies, anything frivolous, and sadly, contributions to charities and our retirement will also be paused.

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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Shannon. What are your hobbies? That’s about it for hobbies, as our little ones are 1 and 3. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? Luckily, even without misguided financial beliefs, we did pay off a significant portion of our debt before having kids.

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Are You Making These Five Retirement Planning Mistakes?

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If you see a 6% annual return on your portfolio, but inflation is at 2.5%, your real return is actually only 3.5% — and that doesn’t take into account the way fees and taxes eat into your real returns. Failure to Account for Rising Taxes. As you create your retirement plan, consider the impact of taxes.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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I love her passion for helping others along their debt free journey. Krystal & Josh’s Debt Free Story. What are your hobbies? How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? It took us four years, but we paid off over $80,000 of debt! We are debt. debts one by one.

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Find Out How Olivia & Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage in 33 Months

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Olivia. What are your hobbies? We are both planners and despise wasting money on debt/interest, which is what led us to pay off our mortgage as soon as we could! How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off a total of $118,000 debt.

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