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how to stay debt free?

OK you get there - debt free but for how long?


We all hope that's it but is it
have we learn't our lessons

can we staY DEBT FREE

NEED TO C

LUV BOMMER 3 HOLS AND COUNTING!

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  • mah_jong
    mah_jong Posts: 1,284 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I am not had any debt other than then the mortgage in umpteen years. I said I could not afford it, I would be happier saving for something.

    If its worth saving for ....its worth getting!

    Once I pay off the mortgage - next year, I shall start doing the sort of stuff that many fold remortgage for... kitchen,bathroom etc if and when required.

    I can never see a reason that I should be in debt in the future .....
  • angelavdavis
    angelavdavis Posts: 4,714 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I cleared my debts last year and have been overpaying the mortgage ever since. We are much better at saving for items we want to buy rather than getting into debt.
    :D Thanks to MSE, I am mortgage free!:D
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    We bencame mortgage free on our main home in the 1990s (but not debt-free), then bought an investment flat on a mortgage in 1997, sold it in 2005, cleared its mortgage and the few remaining debts and have been debt-free ever since after taking early retirement on a small income.

    If we haven't got the money, we don't have it.
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • kosma1
    kosma1 Posts: 243 Forumite
    i am working on being debt free. pay extra when i do overtime, also save some should i need it to pay off cards if 0% disappear.

    After getting myself into debt in the first place, i am now mroe inclined to think if i dont have the money to pay for it i dont have it....just hope i can keep it up, but never want to be in debt again once i am free so hope that is enough to keep me strong. gl all xx
    Thanks to all who post comps :T


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