When I first read about the concept of being "debt free" I immediately dismissed it. Ya right, there's absolutely no way we'll be able to do that on one low-income with one little kid and another one on the way. That's great for them, but they don't know how much debt we have and how small our income is! At that point, I had pretty much accepted the fact that my husband and I would finally be paying off our student loans about the time our kids hit college age. There wasn't even a tiny inkling of hope that our family would be debt free within ten years, let alone one!