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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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We were mentally exhausted from the previous few years with paying off debts and medical bills, but in January 2019, I could see the home stretch and felt really comfortable that we could have this last non-mortgage loan paid off by the end of the year. We followed Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball method.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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To stay motivated I would listen to the debt-free screams on The Dave Ramsey Show. If others could knock out debt, we could too. We sent our very last payment to my husband’s student loan in September 2019, the same month I turned 50. Related Reading: WHY We Wanted to be Debt Free. Paying off debt is not fun.

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