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

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What are your hobbies? That’s one of my hobbies.) 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. Part of that is because when you have less debt, you have more money.

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Meet Doug & Laura. They Paid off $23,000 in 16 Months. | Debt Free Stories

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Together they paid off $23,000 in 16 months. What are your hobbies? What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Because we wanted to get out of debt as fast as possible, we stopped saving money after we had an emergency fund in place. Make paying off debt a priority.

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

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Together they blog about becoming debt free and location independence in order to serve the world at Life with a Mission. What are your hobbies? We realized that we wanted to travel as a family and the only thing keeping us from seeing the world was money. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt.

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Are You Making These Five Retirement Planning Mistakes?

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It means you have to set more money aside for retirement now, but your future self will thank you. You might pay taxes on the money now, but you avoid taxes on the earnings later. And plan to pay more in taxes than you expect. Yes, you might pay off debt and have fewer of those types of obligations.

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What are YOUR Financial Goals? | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Earlier this year, my husband and I wrote a specific list of financial goals and named it Our Debt Freedom Plan. We used Dave Ramsey’s principles from his books, The Total Money Makeover and Financial Peace as a guide to create a step by step plan on how we will achieve our financial goals. S – specific.

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

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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! Angela & Jeff’s Debt Free Story. What are your hobbies? How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? worth of debt. Where are you from?

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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She blogs about living a limitless life on a limited budget at Frugal Debt Free Life. What are your hobbies? What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. We cut our lifestyle to nothing and threw all that extra money at the debt. There were no money arguments. Not really.

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