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The Importance Of Setting Financial New Year’s Goals

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One of the best ways to do that is to set realistic goals. In fact, one of my favorite things to do at the end of December each year is to set financial goals for the new year. I’m convinced that I’ve had such good luck achieving many of my financial goals because I write them down and keep myself accountable.

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Enrollment is OPEN for Elite Blog Academy

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For my fellow bloggers out there, do you dream of creating a career with your blog? Ruth from the wildly successful blog, Living Well Spending Less , has created the course Elite Blog Academy and it is designed to help you take your blog to new heights. Well your wish has just come true. I am so glad I did!

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2012 Goals: Personal & Family

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Recently, we were discussing that when the two of us write down our joint goals, we nail them every time. So on this looooong drive, we talked through our family goals and our own personal goals. My Personal Goals. Our Family Goals. This past December, I had crafts planned for each day of their holiday vacation.

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Why One of My Goals in 2014 is to Limit Time with Technology

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As a result, my blogs thrived, my dogs got their much-needed “mom” time, and I started my day in a productive but not overly stressful way. Then, one weekend in December, as I cut shortbread cookies into festive shapes, and my fiancé pried the dough off the counter with a flipper to bake in the oven, I lost partial vision in my left eye.

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Family Budget Spreadsheets 2021

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This blog was based on my very first spreadsheet, the Family Balance Sheet. I knew it was coming because we hadn’t planned for all of the gifts we bought in December and used a credit card to pay for them. Financial Goals – Use this spreadsheet to quantify your financial goals for the current year and years to come.

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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She blogs about at Careful Cents where she helps creative freelancers and solopreneurs make a living from their craft. Yep, we’re newlyweds and eloped together in December 2013. After nearly a decade of working my way up the career ladder, I quit my small business accounting job to start my blog, Careful Cents.

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

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They blog at 2 Copper Coins. We also were working on paying for Jon’s master’s degree and then my own masters degree, which I completed in December 2013. One of the reasons we decided to start our own blog was to hopefully do for someone else what those financial blogs did for us. Welcome to Debt Free Stories!

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