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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. 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?

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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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I broke my goals into two categories: Financial and Personal. Our Financial Goals: Pay off our non-mortgage debt. 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.

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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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Was there something that you gave up that you will go back to now that you are debt free? I’ve been debt-free for little bit now so I’ve been happily enjoying good coffee! What are your financial goals now? What advice do you have for someone that is paralyzed by their debt load, but wants to be debt free?

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

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This is a huge celebration for us in living debt free! What habits did you form while being debt free that will now stick with you for the long term? We are no longer tied down to a mortgage and student loan debt. What are your financial goals now?

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

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We quit when we were paying off debt. What are your financial goals now? It’s fun being debt-free. It is possible to live debt free. Thank you, Stacy, for being so honest with your debt free story. For more stories like theirs, go to Debt Free Stories.

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