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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. Then my husband decided to pay off his car.

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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? We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. Make paying off debt a priority. Where are you from?

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

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T – time based, tangible, Instead of writing, “I want to pay off debt” or “I don’t want to live paycheck to paycheck”, refer to your recently completed balance sheet and craft S.M.A.R.T. Long distance running is now a hobby and my training is a habit. S – specific.

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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. Yes, you might pay off debt and have fewer of those types of obligations. Expensive hobbies can also boost your costs. Figure a much more conservative rate of return, between 5% and 7%, for stocks.

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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? Is there anything else you’d like to add that you think would help the readers who want to become debt free? Paying off debt can be done! 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? Was there something that you gave up that you will go back to now that you are debt free? When we were paying off debt we chose not to spend money traveling, but honestly our children were also too little to travel.

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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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They paid off $36,000 in debt and cash flowed graduate school. What are your hobbies? When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources.

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