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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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We felt like we couldn’t do a lot of the things in life we wanted to do because there was always the debt and the loan payments. Our loan payments each month were almost equal to our mortgage! Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? We felt really trapped.

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Find out how Anna paid off $23,605 in college, personal loans, and credit cards.

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Anna. She is on a mission to help others become debt free. She writes at her personal finance website, And Then We Saved. What do you and your spouse do for a living? . Also, I should add that his income didn’t contribute to my debt payoff totals at all.

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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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Read more about Shannon’s debt free journey. What inspired you to get debt free? In January 2013 there was a blog post on Keeper of the Home that first awakened me to the concept of living debt free. We were living on one income that placed us just at the top of lower class income level.

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Meet Stacy. She and her husband paid off $20,000 in 8 Months.

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The only debt we had was a mortgage – however when we first got married we were stupid and bought a Mercedes. We swore we would never finance a car again. After we purchased our house, we decided that it would be our last debt – so we worked hard and paid the entire thing off in less than 8 years. It really is.

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