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Step 2: Set achievable goals
The Chatzky Program: Go one step at a time.
May 26, 2004: 1:31 PM EDT
By Jean Chatzky, MONEY Magazine. Additional reporting by Carolyn Bigda

NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Over the past three years, Debi and Richard have racked up some $10,000 in credit-card debt. The part-time bank teller and her husband earn a nice living, and they can't put their finger on one single item that set them back.

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"We don't really have anything to show for it," says Debi. She wants to get out of debt so that she and her husband can start socking away enough to retire comfortably.

The question is, how? How do you pay back $10,000? The answer is: you don't.

Getting getting out of debt is doable, and in this nine-part series, we'll tell you how to do it.

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