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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

For many households, their finances and budgets are in limbo. My family’s finances have also been affected. 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. Everything changed. What got us through financially?

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Save $100 on Family Hawaii Vacation

Saving Cents With Sense

We have wanted to go back for one of our anniversaries, but finances, jobs, school, kids, and just life, has come first so it hasn’t happened yet. and have great deals on family vacations worldwide – Hawaii, contiguous United States, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Costa Rica, Europe, Tahiti, Fiji and more. and island of Hawaii.

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Create your debt freedom plan

Family Balance Sheet

Becoming debt-free became very appealing and the idea of being able to give more, save more, and live more was the direction we wanted to go. Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that we view them as one. At times the plan felt intimidating, but it also changed the direction of our finances.

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10 Easy Ways to Save Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Saving money has always been important in our household so we have learned some great tips over the years on how to do just that. Here are 10 quick tricks you can use to start maximizing your money and saving more. The internet works great for things like insurance management, loan and finance management, as well as goods for the home.

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Find out How Drew & Farrah Paid off $200k of debt, including their HOME

Family Balance Sheet

What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending? We talk about finances almost every day though because its who we are.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. How did you get interested in saving money? I learned to save money by watching my parents. (I I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.) Our son is 29 and biological.

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I’m Not Going to My Best Friend’s Bachelorette Party.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

A trip to Europe. My boyfriend left for Europe at the start of this year for a six month work contract. Not only is this an opportunity for me to spend time with my significant other, it’s an opportunity for me to experience Europe for two weeks for relatively little money (since I’ll be able to stay in the boyfriends’ hotel for free)!

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