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My 2020 Financial Goals & A Recap of 2019

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ALSO our 2019 Financial Goal!). Related Reading: Our Debt Freedom Plan Update (October 2019). This is a work in progress and I feel it will always by my goal. In 2019, I chose a word that encapsulated our financial goal for the year and other habits that I wanted to work on. We knocked this out of the park.

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How We Frugal-ed in July 2022

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Our financial goals are still important to us and we want to hit them regardless of the rising prices. I stopped donating back in October 2021 because I was having a hard time fitting it into my schedule, but in June, they lured me back with a very nice Welcome Back promotion for my first 8 visits, which I finished up in July.

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How We Frugal-ed in September 2022

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I’m always looking for ways to save my family money to help us get through current higher food and gas prices and achieve our big financial goals. Grocery Freebies: During October, I scored a free frozen apple pie, a free salad mix, and free pop tarts from Giant of PA. Some months are more successful than others.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Our 2019 Financial Goal. Happy New Year’s 2019: In January 2019, we were down to one final non-mortgage loan, so we created just one financial goal for the year—-to pay off that last non-mortgage debt by December. We can now move on to other financial goals. 1st Update in June 2014. 2018 Update.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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We will apply half of our debt snowball amount to the home equity loan and it should be paid off by October 2017. Pay off our home equity loan, using the snowball method by October 2017. Start college funds for both girls. What are your financial goals for 2017 and beyond? times the amount of the student loan.

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My Personal Goals for 2018

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These are just my personal goals. I’ll update you on my family’s financial goals for 2018 in another post. My Personal Goals for 2018: 1) Start my day at 6:00 am, Monday-Friday, and end my day at 10pm. Growing up, my family ate diner together all the way up until I left for college.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Start college funds for our two girls. So often, we don’t dream about our financial goals, because we are so entrenched in our challenges. October 2019 Update to our Debt Freedom Plan – We PAID off 6 figures of debt!! Save 15% of gross income in retirement plans. Pay Off Mortgage Debt. Prioritize.

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