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Update #1: Our Debt Freedom Plan

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It happened in 2006 and again in late 2012 to early 2013. We tightened our budget, got laser focused on turning around our business, and shoveled any extra cash into our savings. It felt like it was taking forever to get to that point and to be honest my husband was feeling burned out.

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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

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Ever since we stumbled past the Fiscal Cliff and the budget crisis, the stock market has been rising like a hot air balloon in an updraft (at least as of the time this post was written at the end of March 2013). In hindsight, we all would have sold out of the market at the end of 2006! Hindsight is easy, but foresight is not.

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