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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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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Pat S from compounding returns asks Pay Off Debt or Invest for The Future ? Money Beagle from Money Beagle shares Our Son’s First Money Lesson , and says, “You can never start too early!&# I know for me it wasn’t easy; I needed a lot of support and motivation. This is something we can all try.