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{The New Home Ec} How to Get Out of Debt: One Blogger’s Inspiring Story

April 11, 2012 at 12:15 pm  


For several years, I have watched in awe as my friend Cherie tackled her family’s monstrous debt with determination, grace, and a healthy dose of extreme frugality. She was the inspiration behind my post on debt free bloggers. I watched, with tears in my eyes, as she and her husband made their final consumer debt payment just last month.

Now that they are completely debt free — having paid off even the daunting student loans — I wanted to share more of their story. The Lowe family has paid off over $127K in consumer debt, including credit cards, car loans, medical bills, and student loans. They didn’t sell anything or inherit in anyway.

It was all done the old-fashioned way — saving wherever possible and taking on more work to increase payments to their creditors. I asked Cherie to share a few more details, along with a few tips for those of us inspired to walk in her (debt free) footsteps. [Continue reading on Babble.com…]

Filed Under: Debt Management, Money Saving Ideas, Syndicated Content Tagged With: Babble, Dave Ramsey, getting out of debt, Personal finance, Syndicated Content

About Heather Sokol

Heather Sokol is the founder of Inexpensively. She has been married to Spencer for many, many years. Together, they have five kids, fourteen pets, seven fish, and a web development company. What they lack is sanity.

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