Debt can wreak havoc on your health and relationships. It causes stress and anxiety, and often causes rifts between spouses. Yet the average debt-carrying Canadian owes a total of $27,368 in non-mortgage debt. Debt-free people don't experience financial anxiety. And if you think that you have to be rich to be free of debt, think again. Even people on modest incomes can dig out of debt. If you'd like to work on debt consolidation, here are five financial lessons you can learn from debt-free people.
8 September 2014