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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

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Once you have a total, you know the amount you need to start saving for and it’s not too late to find the funds. If you think you’re going to come up short on cash, check out my 25 Ideas to Find Money. Find a free court, borrow or buy rackets and balls, and go play some tennis. Once summer starts, enter the actual expense.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. We ate at home a lot and watched our food budget carefully. Daniel was working a lot of hours while we paid off our debt. So we needed to find a balance between taking care of the kids and the house.

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5 Steps to Crush Debt in 2016 + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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We’re going to give it everything we’ve got and hopefully pay off the last of our non-mortgage debt by the end of this year. It will be quite a feat because by my calculations we’ll be short each month if we just apply our debt snowball payment. Read our 2016 Crushing Debt Guidelines here.

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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I watched her and her husband’s debt free scream on The Dave Ramsey Show. You can find Angela at her You Tube channel, Our Life…on a Budget , where she vlogs about getting out of debt and staying there! What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Meet Angela.

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

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We started paying it off when we got married and became debt free just shy of our second anniversary. What inspired you to become debt free? I had watched my parents pay off their debt, including their house, when I was a pre-teen, which really influenced me. Find your Why. Sell things.

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

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So whether that’s hiking across the beautiful Sussex Downs, growing my own vegetables or taking my binoculars out for a spot of bird watching I rarely spend much time indoors. Career-wise while I studied biology at university I came out to find very few opportunities in my field. What inspired you to get debt free?

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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals (tips from the achievers)

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They pay off mountains of debt and scream about debt freedom, or maybe they save gobs of money in a record amount of time, or they have considerable success with their new small business. It can be difficult to watch others succeed with their goals. 2) Find a Side Hustle. ” Pay off Debt.