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4 Things Your Child Can Do Instead of Going Immediately to College

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Letting him experience life, though, is a great way to motivate him to pursue further education. Packing up and taking a trip to Europe when you’re 18 is much easier to do, especially if you’re by yourself or traveling with a friend. He may just need to learn a trade or complete a two-year degree. See the world.

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Our 2019 Financial Goal

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We want so badly to move on to the fun stuff, like traveling to Disney or even Europe to visit some friends who recently moved there. I’m very motivated to focus on one goal this year. There are improvements we would like to make to our house and some day, we want to upgrade our pop-up camper to a travel trailer.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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To stay motivated I would listen to the debt-free screams on The Dave Ramsey Show. In January of 2020, we made summer plans (and bought airline tickets) to go see friends who moved to Europe. What’s your motivation for debt freedom? It took us six long years from the time we made this plan a priority. Understand your WHY.

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10 Easy Ways to Save Money

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Then when you are caught trying to decide between spending your money on an impulse buy or on that trip to Europe you’ve always wanted, you will be more inclined to not make that purchase. You will be motivated to save so you can pay cash for your fun and enjoy the experience debt free.

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Meet a Reader | Midwest Andrea

The Frugal Girl

I went on an amazing trip to Europe with that friend for two weeks, where we stayed with her family and used public transportation, and generally lived like locals. Similarly, I really appreciate the posts on contentment and gratitude, and often re-read those for motivation. __ Andrea, it was lovely to meet you. Good for you guys!

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

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FINAL: We travel all the time for fun and work (budgeted of course) but next year we will cut it loose and do something insane like Europe. Share a goal with your spouse and keep it in front of you as motivation when times get hard. We took a mini vacation to Florida. Contentment. Sleeping on purchases.

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Financial Lessons from the Movies – The Unsinkable Molly Brown

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Not everyone is motivated by money. They then spend a lot of money trying to impress their new neighbors – including extensive traveling in Europe to become ‘second generation’ so that the neighbors won’t snub them. To gain polish (and thus the neighbor’s acceptance), the two travel to Europe.

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