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Benefit from My Financial Mistakes

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I ended up with a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in Industrial Psychology – and couldn’t get a good paying job of any sort after graduating! Although we kept our automobiles for 8 – 10 years, I bought most of them new AND never dickered with the car salesman.

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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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As many students do these days, we had tens of thousands of dollars of debt by the time we graduated with our Masters degrees. We got an unexpected tax return, which of course went toward the loans. When I first started commuting, a family from our church actually loaned us their car for two months to ease our commute time!

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