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AUGUST 5, 2015

What are your hobbies? My husband has always been the one who has felt the full weight of our debt. He was always trying to put us on budgets, help us look for ways to save and not spend so much but we never found a system that worked for us and continued in spending behaviors that didn’t help advance goals.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Elle and her husband paid off a car loan and saved cash for their next car. Their 2017 goal is to boost their savings rate and get their expenses down to $30,000 a year as they work towards financial independence. Maureen eliminated $79,000 of credit card and student loan debt less than 3 years. Make a commitment. .

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JULY 2, 2015

What are your hobbies? My husband works as an architect and I teach art part time at my son’s school. 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.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

What are your hobbies? works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. We have a huge heart for missions work. What inspired you to become debt free? 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.

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Debt Debt Free Friends And Family Sale Budgeting 100

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

What are your hobbies? However, since paying off our debt, I have become a much bigger fan of the baby steps laid out by Dave Ramsey and really see the wisdom in paying off debt in that fashion. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Where are you from?

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MAY 27, 2015

What are your hobbies? We made sure we could afford the monthly payments on a 15 year mortgage, with the mindset that we would pay more each month. What inspired you to get debt free? There were two things that inspired us to pay off debt. She blogs about living a fabuLESS life at Snyders Tell All.

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Debt Debt Free Pay Off Debt Finds 100

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

What are your hobbies? After nearly a decade of working my way up the career ladder, I quit my small business accounting job to start my blog, Careful Cents. My husband is a personal chef, so he travels a lot for work and moves around the country to learn new styles of cooking. Who initiated the debt free goal?

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Debt Debt Free Financial Goals Goals 227

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JUNE 2, 2016

Today’s Debt Free Story is from Richard of Frugality Magazine , where he shares frugal living tips for financial freedom. What are your hobbies? These days, I’m pleased to say, I have moved on, and now work in a marketing role – enjoying far more civilized working hours. How much debt did you pay off?

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APRIL 12, 2016

What are your hobbies? I work in Finance/Accounting for a large corporation but I have also started a company called Every Single Dollar , which focuses on personal finance for single women. And I cut back on lifestyle – cooking food at home, taking the bus to work vs driving and paying for parking, etc.

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Credit Cards Debt Debt Free Student 100

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JANUARY 7, 2015

What are your hobbies? We ended up using my remaining collage savings to pay that off. After we purchased our house, we decided that it would be our last debt – so we worked hard and paid the entire thing off in less than 8 years. What inspired you to get debt free? Live junk and debt free!

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Debt Free Debt Budgeting Budget 100