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.) From start to finish it took us a very long time — I would guess 10 years. But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. Then my husband decided to pay off his car.
For the Mommas
JULY 24, 2016
You can use the difference in income to pay off debt, save or invest. Ask around, see if someone you know may have an extra of something they’re not using and don’t need so they’d be happy to give it to you. Eat out less. One of the biggest expenses you probably incur is eating out.
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Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. We sold extra items that we weren’t using through Craigslist and garage sales. The software generated a monthly revenue, but we were able to sell them to pay off the rest of our debt immediately. Paying off debt can be done!
Family Balance Sheet
JUNE 16, 2015
I ended up spending the remainder of my pregnancy using a cane. 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. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? To pay off our home early.
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 20, 2017
towards debt. We committed to using a cash budget, and we talked daily at. loan was paid off and we had that much extra to go towards the second. When the second loan was paid off, we used everything to go towards. When the second loan was paid off, we used everything to go towards. categories.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JANUARY 6, 2011
Look at cutting back on little luxuries such as eating out at lunch each day or in the evenings. Also cut out any unnecessary expenditure, such as subscriptions and memberships that may no longer be of much use to you. You can use a simple pen and notepad. You can use a simple pen and notepad.
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 5, 2015
We saved any that we could from my husbands checks, we sold things from around the house on craigslist and ultimately we started taking everything we earned from our photography business which was a normal part of income for us and used it all on debt. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? That was fun!
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