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Family Budget Spreadsheets 2021

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After the year we’ve had, I think we all are! If your fresh start for the New Year includes improving your finances, you are not alone! Years ago, there was a month where I hadn’t planned on a large property tax bill and I wasn’t sure where we were going to find the money.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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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. We’d survived the dip in 2007, carried no credit card debt, and we were contributing to our retirement. We were feeling pretty good about the new year.

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