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Meet Doug & Laura. They Paid off $23,000 in 16 Months. | Debt Free Stories

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Together they paid off $23,000 in 16 months. What are your hobbies? We paid off just over $23,000 in one year and four months. The debt consisted of my student loans and a car loan. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt.

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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What are your hobbies? That’s one of my hobbies.) 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. Then my husband decided to pay off his car.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Together they blog about becoming debt free and location independence in order to serve the world at Life with a Mission. What are your hobbies? The debt included about $30,000 in student loans, some medical debt, IRS debt, and a small amount on a credit card. What inspired you to get debt free?

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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She blogs about living a limitless life on a limited budget at Frugal Debt Free Life. What are your hobbies? 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? To pay off our home early.

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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You can find Angela at her You Tube channel, Our Life…on a Budget , where she vlogs about getting out of debt and staying there! Angela & Jeff’s Debt Free Story. What are your hobbies? What inspired you to become debt free? Was there a particular event? Tell us about you and your family.

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

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What are your hobbies? 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. Where are you from?

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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What are your hobbies? 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 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.

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