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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

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We’re not perfect though…summer also means more ice cream and frosty treats. Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag – This is a fun frugal summer activity for the kids. They’re all designed to help you save money, pay off debt, and achieve your financial goals, so please take advantage of them.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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So often, we don’t dream about our financial goals, because we are so entrenched in our challenges. Paying off debt is not fun. That’s one reason why we included celebrations in our Debt Freedom Plan. You’ll want to scream and hide under your bed, or in my case, eat cartons of ice cream.

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

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He leaves most of the financial goals up to me, but we make the decisions together. Aside from that I also bought ice cream and went to the movie theater for the first time in over a year. What habits did you form while being debt free that will now stick with you for the long term?

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Find out how Charissa and Her Husband Paid Off $7665 of Debt and Cash Flowed College

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However, since paying off our debt, I have become a much bigger fan of the baby steps laid out by Dave Ramsey and really see the wisdom in paying off debt in that fashion. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. I initiated paying off the debt.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts. But once we started our Debt Freedom Plan, we cut restaurants back to once a week. We said NO a lot.

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