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My Life Plan

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Pay off our mortgage debt. Celebrate debt freedom with a big family trip to Hawaii or Paris. Continue to live debt free with the ability to travel more, give more, pursue our passions. Increase our emergency fund to 6 months of expenses. Contribute to our retirement funds. Start saving for college.

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4 Ways to Enhance Your Financial New Year’s Resolutions

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Whether it’s helping others, travel, or living debt-free, view your money as a resource that can help you live your preferred lifestyle. If you have a partner and/or a family, it’s a good idea to make your plans together. We all need help sometimes.

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

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Acadia. She writes about simple living, parenting and her family’s foster story at Fostering Simplicity. Tell us about you and your family. What do you and your spouse do for a living? We strive to be a pretty active family. Where are you from?

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

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She is on a mission to help others become debt free. Tell us about you and your family. What do you and your spouse do for a living? . My family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska before my Junior year in high school. I lived there for 2 years then I moved to Denver to go to photography school in 1998.

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

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Shannon. Tell us about you and your family. What do you and your spouse do for a living? I’m Shannon Brown, and I’m a crunchy Christian mama blessed to live in beautiful North Idaho. Read more about Shannon’s debt free journey.

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

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I remember when we moved we had to pay for help because no one in our family was in the shape needed to lift furniture. Canadian Finance Blog tells us why living debt free doesn’t help our credit score. Passive Family Income asks us how much we need to retire ? We need to use credit to have a good score.

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

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Today’s debt free story is from Stacy. She shares delicious recipes, money saving tips and frugal living posts at her blog, Stacy Makes Cents. Tell us about you and your family. What do you and your spouse do for a living? It’s fun being debt-free. It is possible to live debt free.

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