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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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Life, as we knew it came to a halt for so many of us in mid-March, and life going forward will forever be known as pre-pandemic or post-pandemic. Our emergency fund. I am totally paraphrasing the year, but had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive.

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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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I have written often about the importance of an emergency fund. 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. My second prayer is that my family gets through this crisis financially.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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The journey started in 2012 when we bought an office building for our business and then found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. Updates on our Debt Freedom Plan over the years: Our Original Debt Freedom Plan – written in March 2014. 1 – Save a starter Home Emergency Fund. 2018 Update.

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Update #1: Our Debt Freedom Plan

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Back in March I wrote about my family’s Debt Freedom Plan. It happened in 2006 and again in late 2012 to early 2013. Our current savings is not at a true emergency fund level of 3-6 months, but further down our plan, we will save up to that level. By summer 2013, our savings was at an uncomfortable level.

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