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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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How I’m managing our family budget during the Pandemic: We pay ourselves at the beginning of each month, so when this crisis started in mid-March, we were covered for the month. This is not an elective, fun, no-spend month like what we did in January to find funds for our summer vacation. We’ll get through this crisis.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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How we got to six figures of non-mortgage debt: In the summer of 2012, we found an opportunity to purchase an office building for our small business. We had been renting for over 10 years and we were ready to find a property to move our business to and eventually build our net worth. Everything looked great on paper. Groceries.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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For many households, their finances and budgets are in limbo. Our small business was going well, so we said so long to renting office space and purchased a commercial property in the summer of 2012. The numbers that looked great on paper in the summer of 2012 were, in reality, turning out to be very challenging in 2013.

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