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Our Family Finances Update: January 2021

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January 2021 was a month of extremes in my family’s finances. Credit cards are a tricky subject and we pay off the balance every month, so I will write more about this soon. I put down half the money and financed the other half. That’s our January finances in a nutshell, how was our month? ” Yes, I am.

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21 Random Facts about Me

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I am a 40-something wife, mother, and small business owner who is passionate about my family, food, running, and our finances. It’s at a credit union and if it ain’t broke, why fix it! My husband and I thought we were just buying a “starter” home back in 2001 and that we would only be in it for 5 years.

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Mourning the Loss of Privacy

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My medical records used to be between my doctor and I – now they are online (From the Guardian “In 2001, a researcher presented the governor of Massachusetts with his personal medical records ‘reidentified’ from anonymously released data.”). How valuable is our privacy? Do we have a right to it?

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