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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Daniel cut some of his business expenses by cutting out a monthly fee for a co-working space and cutting out monthly charges for services he didn’t need anymore. Who initiated the debt free goal? Finances have definitely been the biggest strain in our 11 years of marriage. Daniel does all the day-to-day finances.

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

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This meant moving to a less expensive rental, cutting cable and changing our eating-out and entertainment habits. It took a lot of talking through our goals and how this fit into our life plans to both sacrifice a lot for education and debt freedom at the same time. What are your financial goals now?

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending? We do his/hers/and ours finances, with each of us sending the same amount to the joint account and then doing whatever we want with the rest of our money.

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Find Out How Ruth and Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage

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We also stopped eating out and even went on regular spending freezes. Stop eating out. Working towards becoming debt free and finally getting on the same page with our finances was actually great for our marriage. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally?

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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We gave up eating out, cable, driving as many places. We had a rough few years financially and we just looked at each other one day and realized we couldn’t live like that anymore. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? What are your financial goals now?

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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He was always trying to put us on budgets, help us look for ways to save and not spend so much but we never found a system that worked for us and continued in spending behaviors that didn’t help advance goals. Both are equally important and both need to be heard and respected in our finances. That was fun!

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

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She writes about family, finances and faith at her blog, Principles of Increase. More diligence with finances brought in more income producing opportunities for us. We rarely argued about finances since we paid the decision to be debt free. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally?

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