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

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I also love, love, LOVE to travel. 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.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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San Antonio, Texas is our home when we aren’t traveling the world. We have always loved to travel and do missions work for our church. We realized that we wanted to travel as a family and the only thing keeping us from seeing the world was money. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Becoming debt-free became very appealing and the idea of being able to give more, save more, and live more was the direction we wanted to go. Dave Ramsey has a plan and it has worked for millions of people. It was such a treat and at that time, we were excited by the prospects of more extensive travel. Track your success.

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Friday Links – Fridays Are Just Another Day

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Paying off debt is hard to do. Read John’s post about his stumbles on the way to paying off his debt at The Money Principle. Joanna at Our Freaking Budget wonders if we’re all just working for the weekend. 11 Ways To Make Personal Travel More Sustainable And Less Polluting.

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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I am a stay at home mom and freelance marketer and my husband works in the construction industry. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? The fear of losing my baby led to the desire for me to be a stay at home mom, but I knew that would never work if we were in such debt.

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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. 10 – Pay Off Mortgage Debt. . We can now move on to other financial goals. It was not.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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works in outbound sales, and I teach part-time. We have a huge heart for missions work. What inspired you to become debt free? working full time at a low-paying job and going to grad school full time, while my husband was working multiple jobs just to help us make ends meet. We learned to travel with.

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