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4 Ways to Enhance Your Financial New Year’s Resolutions

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Whether it’s helping others, travel, or living debt-free, view your money as a resource that can help you live your preferred lifestyle. A little education — and the application of the things you learn — can go a long way toward helping you set and keep financial goals that yield good returns.

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The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save?

Penny Pinchin' Mom

The post The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save? Should you pay off debt or save? So, you want to get started on debt repayment so you can focus on other financial goals? However, if you pay off these debts, there will be nothing left for investments in these tough financial times.

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My Life Plan

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As part of Prudential’s Women Inspired campaign, I was encouraged to think about my dreams detailing my long-term goals and aspirations. I broke my goals into two categories: Financial and Personal. Our Financial Goals: Pay off our non-mortgage debt. Write a book about our debt free journey.

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

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Read more about Shannon’s debt free journey. What inspired you to get debt free? In January 2013 there was a blog post on Keeper of the Home that first awakened me to the concept of living debt free. We were living on one income that placed us just at the top of lower class income level.

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

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What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? Was there something that you gave up that you will go back to now that you are debt free?

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

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We have been given money ourselves during our process of paying off debt and try to remain grateful and giving. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? My husband and I really do see eye to eye when it comes to debt.

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

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If married, who initiated the debt free goal? Were there arguments during the time you were working on your debt? We both were on board with the debt-free goal. We quit when we were paying off debt. What are your financial goals now? It’s fun being debt-free.

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