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The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save?

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The post The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save? Should you pay off debt or save? So, you want to get started on debt repayment so you can focus on other financial goals? However, if you pay off these debts, there will be nothing left for investments in these tough financial times.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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These days, there is an ever-growing concern about the safety of our personal information when it is shared over the World Wide Web. Sean Smarty from Grow Money talks about How to Invest During College. Many of us should have started earlier don’t you think? My parents have helped us in the past.

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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals (tips from the achievers)

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Shannon from Growing Slower says her most powerful strategy to achieving their goal was to write it down and have a plan. She and her husband also used a visual motivation chart posted on their refrigerator. My husband and I also have a goal of debt freedom, but we’ve put together micro-S.M.A.R.T. goals to get us there.

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Find out how Charissa and Her Husband Paid Off $7665 of Debt and Cash Flowed College

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I would say that this plan helped me more in the area of using a zero-based budget and sticking with a budget. It was after I started listening to Dave Ramsey, that I started thinking about getting out of debt more quickly and realizing that it was definitely possible to become debt free. I initiated paying off the debt.

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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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