I bought nothing for 2 years and paid off $85,000 debt

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  @Allison_647 · 5 months ago

  Perfect video to celebrate me paying off my $66K student loan debt earlier this week! This feeling is so freeing 🎉

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• CO

  @colloquiallyjoce · 5 months ago

  I bought a house and was really stressed about money. I did a no-buy year and it was awesome. I deleted all social media apps and only used them in browser where I can use an ad blocker. I filtered all my emails so that I wasn’t getting sale notifications from stores. <br><br>I played a lot of video games from my backlog, knitted and crocheted projects out of yarn from my stash, started lifting weights, and dedicated myself to a sport. I was not 100% successful with my no-buy, but it did reframe my relationship with shopping and buying things.

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  @77devvv · 4 months ago

  I’m literally so proud of everyone in the comments life is just so hard

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• CH

  @Chahlie · 5 months ago

  I made the difficult decision to get a job as a dishwasher. Sounds awful, but it&apos;s 10 minutes from home rather than minimum 30- with fuel prices now that&apos;s a huge consideration. I don&apos;t have to worry about hair, makeup, clothes. And not being in an urban area (it&apos;s a country cafe), there is no &apos;just popping in&apos; to any stores. I&apos;m giving it a year and we&apos;ll see :)

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• DR

  @DrowsyRamm · 5 months ago

  Im 23 and recently paid my car loan 28 months early. I definitely sleep better at night now lol

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• AL

  @alexandriajohnson5190 · 5 months ago

  Paid off all my and my husband&apos;s debt this week! Feel so free

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• GI

  @giraffezebra2698 · 4 months ago

  I feel bad for the generations of young people who were never taught money management. It should be a required class in high school.

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• KI

  @kittypryde9 · 4 months ago

  I was an awful impulse buyer for quite a long time. Then I got diagnosed with ADHD and figured out my brain was chasing the dompaine hit of buying something new. So what I&apos;ve started doing that has helped me a LOT is I&apos;ll go to a store and browse around and when I see something I want, I pick it up and carry it around with me or put it in my basket like I&apos;m going to buy it but I keep walking around the store. And after a while, when the dopamine dies down, I&apos;m able to ask myself &quot;do I REALLY need this right NOW?&quot; And nine times out of ten, the answer is no, and I&apos;m able to put it back and actually get a little dopamine hit in that on its own for resisting something I didn&apos;t need and save money :)

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• 6B

  @6boys1girl · 5 months ago

  I bought Tiffany &amp; co toggle bracelet for my birthday, I’ve wanted one for years. I was so unimpressed with it that I returned it and upgraded my MacBook, I am so much happier. It’s a refurbished one but better than the base model that just dropped in March.

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• VI

  @Vintagelucero · 5 months ago

  I’m debt free for over a decade now, and I’m FINALLY giving myself a break and only working my shift this year… 40hrs a wk vs my usual 50-60. &nbsp;It’s so satisfying!

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• KI

  @kimwieczorek1879 · 5 months ago

  My fav. quote is &quot;SAVE UNTIL IT HURTS&quot;! It works. I end up richer❤🎉

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• EL

  @elijaprice · 5 months ago

  It hadn&apos;t occurred to me before watching this that the word &apos;budget&apos; is a lot like the word &apos;diet&apos; - if you instinctively recoil at the word, it&apos;s probably because you have a problem. Every adult has a budget just as every adult has a diet, it&apos;s whether you enjoy it, and whether it&apos;s good for your health and sustainable in the long term.

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