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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. My family’s finances have also been affected. As the Family Office Manager , I handle the day-to-day finances for our family and I needed a way to communicate our finances to my husband. Everything changed. I still use my spreadsheet to this day!

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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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With tuition payments and debt payments we spent about $60,395 between January 2012 and March 2014 when we became completely debt free with two bachelor’s and two master’s degrees between us. This meant moving to a less expensive rental, cutting cable and changing our eating-out and entertainment habits.

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

After that, while you all primed and interested in personal finance, continue and read the awesome articles that were written across the web this week regarding personal finance and enhancing your lifestyle. The College Investor: Start Automatic Investing in 2012 – How you can automate your investing in 2012 the easy way.

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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. Financially speaking, he focuses on building the business and I focus on managing our home and finances. We increased our income. We need to increase our income.”

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Meet a Reader | Biker Liz

The Frugal Girl

I don’t want to feel like I’m wasting all the gifts I’ve been given, including my finances. We had to sell it less than 3 years after buying it, and between that and the market timing (bought in 2009, sold in 2012), we were lucky to come out of the whole situation with our original mortgage paid off completely by the sale!