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Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
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?
Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
We have always loved to travel and do missions work for our church. We realized that we wanted to travel as a family and the only thing keeping us from seeing the world was money. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Who initiated the debt free goal? Was there a particular event?
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For the Mommas
JULY 24, 2016
You can use the difference in income to pay off debt, save or invest. If you need to earn less, this allows you to choose to work less, or work more but retire early. And if you rent, save money and then invest the difference. Eat out less. Save money by preparing your own meals.
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 4, 2014
We’ll live in a dorm (which fits us perfectly but we know sounds terrible to others) in our own apartment while I (Krista) work in student development providing mentoring/counseling/student discipline to the 150 women in the dorm and Jon will work right across the street as the assistant director of admissions.
Family Balance Sheet
JUNE 16, 2015
I am a stay at home mom and freelance marketer and my husband works in the construction industry. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? The fear of losing my baby led to the desire for me to be a stay at home mom, but I knew that would never work if we were in such debt.
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 5, 2015
My husband has always been the one who has felt the full weight of our debt. 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. That was fun!
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 20, 2017
works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. We have a huge heart for missions work. What inspired you to become debt free? When my husband and I got married, we were making hardly any money. When the second loan was paid off, we used everything to go towards. towards paying off your debt.
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