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Learning to Save & Pay Off Debt | Guest Post

Saving Cents With Sense

I was raised with frugal parents that tried to install in me proper money management and even though I always paid off everything on time, I never managed to save money. 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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However, with my husband being an architect and an overall really handy guy, we decided that fixing up the house and selling it could give us enough profit to at least pay off a big chunk of our debt. 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.

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

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What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. I took on extra work outside of my full-time accounting job. I only pay for Netflix and Hulu Plus, which is around $18 a month — a far cry from my $90+ satellite TV bill. Her ideas were simple to implement and only took a few minutes a day.

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