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Learning to Save & Pay Off Debt | Guest Post

Saving Cents With Sense

She shares her own money saving journey with you to hopefully help inspire some that are just starting on that path. Let’s be honest, saving money for me has always been a struggle. Then more than a year ago something in me changed after a health scare and I realized that it’s important to pay off debt and save more than ever.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet. get better once I had my masters degree and could teach full-time. Eventually, my husband also got a better paying job and I started teaching.

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

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It took us two years of my husband working full-time at his job and then using every other second to work on the house. We sacrificed a lot of time together and took on a lot of stress during this time. But in the end, we ended up making enough profit to pay off our debt entirely and still put some into savings!

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

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I took on extra work outside of my full-time accounting job. The income from my extra jobs went straight to debt payments, and my regular day job paid the bills, while enabling me to build up a small amount of savings. Aside from the normal saving money ideas, I started bartering for extra services that I needed.

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