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AUGUST 5, 2015

What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? My husband has always been the one who has felt the full weight of our debt. We decided to declare it our year of health and align our diets and become more healthy, invest more in our community at church and clean up our finances.

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JULY 2, 2015

What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? It wasn’t really a particular event, but more of a particular feeling. 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. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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AUGUST 4, 2014

With tuition payments and debt payments we spent about $60,395 between January 2012 and March 2014 when we became completely debt free with two bachelor’s and two master’s degrees between us. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? The first step in this diligence was paying off debt.

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JUNE 16, 2015

We paid off $36,000 in student loans, credit cards, cars and a bit of medical debt. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Other than the student loans, everything else was consumer debt from 13 years of trying to “keep up with the Jones’ “ We finally managed to get the debt paid off two years and two weeks from the time we started this journey. What inspired you to become debt free? Was there a particular event?

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JANUARY 20, 2017

She is the co-founder of the website, Little Light on a Hill , where she writes about faith, family, and finances. I love her passion for helping others along their debt free journey. Be sure to check out her website where she is offering a free finance workbook if you subscribe to her newsletter. debts one by one.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Charissa. She helps readers gain control of their finances and live well on a budget at her blog Cook with a Shoe . We paid off $7,665 worth of credit cards, school loans and a car loan. We started paying it off when we got married and became debt free just shy of our second anniversary.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

I was only bringing home a net income of $3,000 a month, so paying $1,000 each month towards my debt was a lot of money, and took a lot of sacrificing. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? The main event that catapulted me into wanting to be debt free, was the lowest point in my life to-date.

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Debt Debt Free Financial Goals Goals 227

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MAY 27, 2015

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? Was there a particular event? There were two things that inspired us to pay off debt. So he was paying over $2200.00 I rarely use coupons.

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JUNE 2, 2016

What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? It was getting to the point that as soon as I got paid, covered my monthly bills and made the required debt repayments my bank account was back to zero again. Was there something that you gave up that you will go back to now that you are debt free?

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APRIL 12, 2016

I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? The inspiration to pay off my debt was watching my grandmother balance her checkbook.

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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 work through these steps together.

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Budgeting Budget Financial Goals Goals 133

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JANUARY 7, 2015

We ended up using my remaining collage savings to pay that off. 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. What inspired you to get debt free? And deodorant.

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