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OCTOBER 18, 2019

To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt. From what we learned in the course, we wrote our Debt Freedom Plan. Updates on our Debt Freedom Plan over the years: Our Original Debt Freedom Plan – written in March 2014.

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Debt 2019 Financial Goals Emergency Fund 100

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APRIL 9, 2021

Stressed out, we ventured into Dave Ramsey’s online Financial Peace University home course for help. Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt. But $1000 was not nearly enough money to cover sudden emergencies in both our home and business.

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Debt Emergency Fund 2019 Debt Free 130

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Because we wanted to get out of debt as fast as possible, we stopped saving money after we had an emergency fund in place. We all the extra money we had been putting away toward debt reduction. Make paying off debt a priority.

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Debt Free Debt Emergency Fund Finance 241

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JUNE 8, 2018

I came up with strategies to help us pay for yearly bills, large expenses, and we were able to pay off debts. A budget could help you avoid late and insufficient funds fees, find money for an upcoming trip or expense, and ease a disagreement over finances in a marriage. We have been using this system ever since.

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Budgeting Budget Financial Goals Goals 133

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Welcome to Debt Free Stories. She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. After paying off the debt, she was able to quit her job to pursue her passion. She blogs at The Debt Myth. But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt.

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Debt Debt Free Pay Off Debt Financial Goals 236

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JUNE 22, 2020

In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts. After the first year, the new business debt weighed on me. Everything looked great on paper.

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Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

However, since paying off our debt, I have become a much bigger fan of the baby steps laid out by Dave Ramsey and really see the wisdom in paying off debt in that fashion. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. I initiated paying off the debt.

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