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My Word for 2021

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I joined the crowd many years ago only to completely forget about my word by mid-March. After writing some financial goals that had a lot to do with researching topics, such as retirement and college savings strategies, I realized that maybe my word for 2020 was READ. Read: My 2020 Financial Goals. But 2019 was different.

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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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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. Stop sending an extra payment to our mortgage. We didn’t have enough cash saved to buy a car without a loan and that wasn’t sitting well with me.

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Stay the Course Financially

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billion in March. billion in March – according to that same report. San Francisco’s Federal Reserve published a report: Consumers and the Economy, Part I: Household Credit and Personal Saving examining the relationship between the availability of credit and the household savings rate. percent, compared with 5.9

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Find Out How Olivia & Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage in 33 Months

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Ryan is a high school math teacher and also officiates college basketball (November thru March). Our initial goal was to pay off our 15 year mortgage in 7-8 years by doubling our payment each month. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? I also blog at Snyders Tell All. How much debt did you pay off?

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