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5 Essential Money Tips for Newlyweds

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It’s easier to understand yourself and your partner, and easier to create shared goals, when you both understand what makes you tick. Talk about these issues, and determine how your financial situation to look. Set Goals Together. If you want to accomplish anything together as a couple, you need to have shared goals.

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

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I know there are many reasons for the dire savings rates: kids, household projects, kids, pets, kids, caring for an aging parent, kids, medical issues, and kids. We charted out our course of action to pay off debts and start saving for retirement. We still refer to it often to remind ourselves of our goals and objectives.

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

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Arguably if I’d known about all the great free advice around at that time I’d have got out of debt sooner, but in the early days it was really a case of trying to figure it out for myself. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. What are your financial goals now? Yes, but not yet!

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