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

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About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?

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

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Daniel was working a lot of hours while we paid off our debt. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Was there something that you gave up that you will go back to now that you are debt free? It’s feels nice to spend money on a date night out. Paying off debt can be done!

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

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We made sure we could afford the monthly payments on a 15 year mortgage, with the mindset that we would pay more each month. What inspired you to get debt free? There were two things that inspired us to pay off debt. I talk a lot about this in my post “Top 4 Ways to Pay Off Debt” but they include: 1.

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

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When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources. The first step in this diligence was paying off debt.

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

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What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. We cut our lifestyle to nothing and threw all that extra money at the debt. We gave up eating out, cable, driving as many places. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt.

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

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We had become so accustomed to living off both incomes that we really had to re-adjust a few lifestyle choices so we could live off just my husbands income. This ultimately is what put us on the fast track for paying off debt in such a quick amount of time. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

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That meant no vacations, no new clothes, no eating out, nothing. This immediately let me slash a huge amount off my monthly spending – though of course it wasn’t much fun at the time! Debt Negotiation – I started to wonder whether the money I owed was “fixed” or not. Yes, but not yet!

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