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Guest post by Lydia of Frugal, Debt Free Life For many years, I felt like being debt free was the impossible dream. And then it happened. In February 2014, my husband and I were able to declare ourselves a debt-free family. We had trampled down a mound of credit card bills and gotten out from under an avalanche of student loans. In the year since we became debt free I have learned so much. Here are three lessons: 1. Budgeting doesn’t stop just because the debt is gone. For so long, it felt like we were walking around with a backpack full of bricks. Once the debt was gone, we were able to take off that backpack and breathe for the first time in years. But it didn’t