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Cool Things I Read This Week

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6 Ways to Save Money On a Gym Membership [link] #. Reader Asks About Selling Home to Pay Off Debt – [link] I agree. Prairie Eco-Thrifter has Been Featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance # 297 [link] #. Prairie Eco-Thrifter has Been Featured in the Canadian Finance Carnival # 24 [link] #.

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The Prairie Eco-Thrifter Giveaway Extravaganza Winners

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Here is the list of prizes as well as the winners: iPad (sponsored by Prairie Eco Thrifter and Sustainable Personal Finance ) Nicole D. $25 Pay Off Debt App (sponsored by The Debt Myth ) Lisa K. $20 50 PayPal Gift Card (sponsored by Everything Finance Blog ) Angel J. $25 All winners have been notified.

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

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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?

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Debt

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Also cut out any unnecessary expenditure, such as subscriptions and memberships that may no longer be of much use to you. This savings can be directly applied towards your smaller debts such as credit and store cards in order to clear them more quickly. It will also help you manage any additional debt.

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Saving Tips & Free Crediting Monitoring

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Saving more (52%), spending less (19%) and paying off debt (19%). Eliminate expensive membership fees (i.e. Paying Off Debt. After taking a look at your holiday shopping credit card bill, you may (unsurprisingly) groan and vow to pay off your debt as quickly as possible.

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? Yes, I did follow a few of Dave Ramsey’s strategies, but I also starting reading other finance blogs to see how they paid off debt so quickly. Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt?

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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Financially speaking, he focuses on building the business and I focus on managing our home and finances. When I first approached him about paying off these debts early, he said to me, “it’s not going to happen by clipping coupons. We stopped paying for our gym membership. . We said NO a lot.

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