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Cool Things I Read This Week

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6 Ways to Save Money On a Gym Membership [link] #. Reader Asks About Selling Home to Pay Off Debt – [link] I agree. Paying Debt vs. Saving Money [link] I say pay off debt. 0 saves Save. Cool Things I Read This Week [link] #. Best thing is to learn from them #.

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The Prairie Eco-Thrifter Giveaway Extravaganza Winners

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Pay Off Debt App (sponsored by The Debt Myth ) Lisa K. $20 25 Amazon or PayPal Gift Card (sponsored by Budgeting in the Fun Stuff ) Jason $25 PayPal Gift Card + 1 free year Gold Membership to Stock Trend Investing (sponsored by Stock Trend Investing ) Mary A.

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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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. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Happy New Year’s 2019: In January 2019, we were down to one final non-mortgage loan, so we created just one financial goal for the year—-to pay off that last non-mortgage debt by December. We engaged in many strategies to find extra money to put towards the debt: We cut cable TV and our land line.

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Saving Tips & Free Crediting Monitoring

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Saving more (52%), spending less (19%) and paying off debt (19%). Eliminate expensive membership fees (i.e. Paying Off Debt. After taking a look at your holiday shopping credit card bill, you may (unsurprisingly) groan and vow to pay off your debt as quickly as possible.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Debt

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Also cut out any unnecessary expenditure, such as subscriptions and memberships that may no longer be of much use to you. This savings can be directly applied towards your smaller debts such as credit and store cards in order to clear them more quickly. Instead pack a lunch and cook some simple meals at home for dinner.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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We stopped paying for our gym membership. . We didn’t stop going to the gym, but my husband figured out how to get a free membership, freeing up $67/month. Read: How to Get a FREE Gym Membership. Living a life focused on paying off debt is not always easy. We cut cable tv and our landline. .

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