Nyajuok Mangongo, 36, made a handful of moves to pay off $87,000 in credit card debt and a car payment in just under a year.
From picking up weekend hours as a nurse during the pandemic, to buying things from her local Goodwill to resell on eBay and Facebook Marketplace, Mangongo hustled to supplement her income every way she could.
“Anything that I could do that was legal, that was ethical, that was not clashing with my values, I did it to get extra money,” Mangongo tellsCNBC Select.
But Mangongo didn’t just increase her income, she also cut back on her expenses drastically.
Below, we share Mangongo’s one spending rule that helped her pay off five-figure debt this year and what you can learn from what she calls a “mindset shift.”
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