Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. Make paying off debt a priority. If you’re going to get serious about becoming debt free, you have to make that your first priority.
Savings Corner
DECEMBER 24, 2023
Try adjusting the terms, loan types or rate until you find a debt consolidation plan that fits your goals and budget. Debt consolidation is the process of combining several debts into one new loan. The goal is to streamline payments, lower interest, and pay off debt more quickly.
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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
Daniel was working a lot of hours while we paid off our debt. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Is there anything else you’d like to add that you think would help the readers who want to become debt free? Paying off debt can be done!
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 5, 2015
We had become so accustomed to living off both incomes that we really had to re-adjust a few lifestyle choices so we could live off just my husbands income. This ultimately is what put us on the fast track for paying off debt in such a quick amount of time. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 4, 2014
When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources. The first step in this diligence was paying off debt.
Family Balance Sheet
JUNE 16, 2015
Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Was there something that you gave up that you will go back to now that you are debt free? When we were paying off debt we chose not to spend money traveling, but honestly our children were also too little to travel. Jason is the nerd.
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