I really enjoyed the guest post by Frugal Granola which was posted on Getting Freedom this week. I think you’ll be inspired by it, too. Here’s a snippet:
During the early years of our marriage, we had our share of debt. It started with school loans, then the addition of medical bills, followed by the expense of a car, a mortgage, and the cost of having a baby.
Through those years, feeling the burden of debt, I would often hear financial suggestions, such as “Skip the cup of coffee,” or “Entertain at home instead of going out.” These are certainly wise suggestions, but I would shake my head in dismay; we were already doing these things!
We were meeting our daily expenses and bill payments, but were exhausted by the amount of time working and our lack of family time. It certainly didn’t feel like we had the freedom to live out our values. We were “living to work” instead of “working to live.”
We finally realized the steps to our financial freedom needed to be more extreme.
Read the full post and ways that this family decided to become more extreme in their measures to get out of debt.
Tomorrow, I’ll share some of the “extreme measures” we’ve taken to stay out of debt.