Welcome everyone to another episode of debt stories, real people beating debt and winning financially.

Today we meet Chelsea who lives in Tri Cities Washington with her husband and their two dogs, a German

Shepherd and a Chihuahua.

Chelsea's job is in marketing.

I work at the Visitor Center in our communities.

It's a nonprofit.

It's a destination marketing organization, and I work to bring corporate and government groups to our community.

And her husband is a mechanic and a teacher.

My husband has two full-time jobs which kind of plays into the whole debt free payoff strategy.

So he is a mechanic at our local transit agency and he does that in the evenings and then in the daytime he actually teaches

local high school students how to work on diesel engines. He worked 75 hours a week and

we're always ready for the weekend by the time that it comes around.

And this is the tale of how they said aloha to a whole lot of debt.

We were married in June of 2013 and I guess most of our debt really did come from the wedding.

We got married on the beach in Hawaii. It was a beautiful ceremony and we were super happy.

They were super happy, but Chelsea admits their life at the time was also super pricey.

I was a little on the high maintenance side where I needed my reception dress and I needed my different

pairs of shoes and that sort of thing.

And then at the same time my husband, he's really into outdoor stuff and hunting and that's a really

expensive hobby and so kind of a mix of I guess life being a little out of

control is what what really started our debt.

We got married when I was 21, but my husband, he's a little bit older, I think he was 27 or 28,

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