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**Originally Posted on Medium.com on Feb 10th, 2016**

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# How our family has almost paid off all our debt!

I've been saying for a long time that our story needed to be told. I thought maybe I could do a Vlog and I keep talking about doing it and I just haven't done it.

But, it's going to start now. This is going to take a few posts because I doubt you want to read a HUGE post.

So, let's talk about where we are. We have about $4000 left of our debt to pay off. We will probably be getting it paid off in the next month or so and starting [Baby Step 3](https://www.daveramsey.com/baby-steps/3). Most of the debt was my student loans. It's safe to say that Ashley wasn't too happy about me bringing in $35,000 worth of debt in, but since we got married we've paid off about $31,000 dollars of it as a team! That's in 5 months people! FIVE MONTHS! Before we got married we paid off a $2000 maxed out credit card Ashley had, but we're not really counting that or the payments we made to the student loans post-marriage.

We made about $75,000 (before taxes) in 2015, and our income has slightly increased this year (she got a raise, I got a new job), so maybe $80,000 for 2016?

So that's where we are. I want to start talking more about our journey. Yeah I had hoped to do a Vlog, but I've learned that just isn't the right medium for me, so blogs will just have to do. I've learned so much from people who share their experience online and I feel as if it's our duty to tell the world how possible it is to get out of debt and be successful with money by simply following a plan.

Now let me talk a bit about the difficulties. I'm amazed I'm still alive to tell this story. Ashley and I, to say the least, did not fair well on this journey. We're the case of opposites attract, but can't agree on anything...ever. It hasn't been easy for us, but the journey has proven to show us the gaps in our relationships we needed to fill and things we needed to fix, and it's been for the better so far.

In the subsequent blogs I want to talk about everything that's gone on, the wisdom we gained, the tribulations, the lows and highs, everything Ashley will let me talk about lol. It would have been great to write about how easy this has all been, but it's exactly the opposite; and that's exactly why I need to tell the story. I don't want someone to give up because this is getting hard because we haven't!

So in the next few blogs I hope to catch everyone up and it is our hope to give someone else hope.

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