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The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save?

Penny Pinchin' Mom

The post The Age Old Question: Should You Pay Off Debt or Save? Should you pay off debt or save? So, you want to get started on debt repayment so you can focus on other financial goals? However, if you pay off these debts, there will be nothing left for investments in these tough financial times.

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4 Ways to Enhance Your Financial New Year’s Resolutions

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

However, your New Year’s Resolutions should be about more than just generically “saving more”, “spending less”, or “paying down debt” What if you’ve been making solid progress in those areas? Educate yourself about how money works, and how to make the most of it. Educate Yourself.

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My Life Plan

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And while we have a lot of work ahead of us, we keep moving forward. Start saving for college. Pay off our mortgage debt. Celebrate debt freedom with a big family trip to Hawaii or Paris. Continue to live debt free with the ability to travel more, give more, pursue our passions. Achievable?

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Find out how Anna paid off $23,605 in college, personal loans, and credit cards.

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Anna. She is on a mission to help others become debt free. She writes at her personal finance website, And Then We Saved. What do you and your spouse do for a living? . What inspired you to get debt free? If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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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. We live beneath our means. Give to others.

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

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I’m Shannon Brown, and I’m a crunchy Christian mama blessed to live in beautiful North Idaho. He now works as an architect, and I do some freelance from home now that we have kids. Read more about Shannon’s debt free journey. What inspired you to get debt free? Then the real work began!

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We are also working on planning our trip to Asia. We have had some kinks with our itinerary and corresponding flights so we have be trying to plan a route that works with the flight patterns. Last night we were up late trying to finalize a plan that would work. We found a system that worked for both of us.

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