For Kelan and Brittany Kline, improving their finances came down to a simple idea: widen the gap between what they earned and what they spent.
The couple, who once worked traditional jobs as a jail deputy and elementary school teacher, were newly married and carrying roughly $40,000 in student-loan debt when they began rethinking their finances.
They attacked both sides of the equation. On the income side, they built The Savvy Couple , a personal-finance blog that eventually grew into a seven-figure online business. On the spending side, they focused on keeping their lifestyle relatively stable as their income increased.
The couple said their…
