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4 Ways to Enhance Your Financial New Year’s Resolutions

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Whether it’s helping others, travel, or living debt-free, view your money as a resource that can help you live your preferred lifestyle. Educate yourself about how money works, and how to make the most of it. 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. 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. Write a book about our debt free journey.

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

Penny Pinchin' Mom

Advantages of Paying Off Debt From a purely financial point of view, it makes more sense to focus on debt payoff rather than directing available cash to a savings account. From a personal point of view, I much prefer living debt free.

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

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It was a mix of college loans, a personal loan from my parents (for college), an overdraft account, and credit card debt. What inspired you to get debt free? I had tried a lot of different things to get out of debt but nothing worked. There wasn’t one particular thing that pushed me to the debt-free living side.

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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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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. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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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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