Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Our Debt Freedom Plan has been a long winding road. 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. A lot of life happened over 7 years and our plan changed slightly, but our goal remains to achieve complete freedom from debt.

Debt 100

Debt 2019 Financial Goals Emergency Fund 100

Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 4, 2014

We also were working on paying for Jon’s master’s degree and then my own masters degree, which I completed in December 2013. 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.

Debt Free 243

Debt Free Debt Goals Student 243

Family Balance Sheet

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I started Careful Cents and used that as a platform to find freelance writing opportunities. The income from my extra jobs went straight to debt payments, and my regular day job paid the bills, while enabling me to build up a small amount of savings. Who initiated the debt free goal? What are your financial goals now?

Debt 227

Debt Debt Free Financial Goals Goals 227

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts. My husband drives a 2012 Nissan that we bought used in 2017 to replace a 2001 Honda Civic. We said NO a lot.

Debt 130

Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130