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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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We ran the numbers of the purchase and they looked great on paper, but paper doesn’t account for a new server, a roof leak, unexpected medical bills, and other calamities. To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt. Our 2019 Financial Goal.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. As hard as it was to do, we stopped contributing to our retirement for about three years and applied that money to these loans. My husband drives a 2012 Nissan that we bought used in 2017 to replace a 2001 Honda Civic.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Our bills and responsibilities didn’t waiver however, even though our income dipped. It wasn’t that we had friction over money in our marriage, but as the business & Family Office Manager , I had taken on the stress of that cash flow crisis and tried to work it all out by myself. We bought our home in 2001.

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