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Tag: debtstories

Samanthas car debt story

How Samantha paid her car debt

by BrendanApril 26, 2020July 30, 20204 Comments

A story from Samantha, a personal finance YouTuber and reader of my blog, on how she paid her car debt. Find her videos here. My name is Samantha and I'm a 34 year old Zimbabwean living in Johannesburg for the…

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A debt story from Muthu

A debt story from Muthu

by BrendanJuly 19, 2019July 30, 2020Leave a comment

A real story from a reader - unedited Mine started late 2014 when I just got a permanent job after a successful graduate programme. I decided to buy a car with my first salary, blessing right? Wrong! I bought the…

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Nqobiles Debt Story

Nqobile’s debt story

by BrendanJuly 9, 2019July 30, 2020Leave a comment

A real story from a reader! Unedited So the year was 2017 (I was 23 years old at the time), in April my 2 friends were building houses for their families and were asking me for financial assistance because they…

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Tumi's Debt Story

Tumi’s debt story

by BrendanJuly 1, 2019February 21, 20218 Comments

Read Tumi's debt story of how she got into 172k of consumer debt, her stress, and how she has now almost finished paying it off

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My own debt story

My own debt story

by BrendanJune 15, 2019July 30, 20202 Comments

I was recently asked about my own debt story and what the actual turning point for me was. It was hard to think about as it's an area of my life that I've kind of pushed to the far corners…

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